Natural history, lore and legend : $b Being some few examples of quaint and by-gone beliefs gathered in from divers authorities, ancient and mediæval, of varying degrees of reliabilityHulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)
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Natural history, lore and legend : $b Being some few examples of quaint and by-gone beliefs gathered in from divers authorities, ancient and mediæval, of varying degrees of reliability
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)
Animals, Mythical; Monsters; Science -- History; Zoology -- History
Cartazonos, 130
“Cassandra,” extract from, 287
“Castle of Memory,” 166
Cat, 168, 189
Catelan on Unicorn, 131
Cathay, palace at, 151
Catoblepas, 197
Centaur, 79, 294
Cerastes or horned viper, 298, 304
Ceylon, mermaids of, 88
“Ceylon, Natural History of,” 196
Chameleon, 136, 178, 274, 296
Chanticleer, 239
Chares on Theriaca, 299
Chaucer, extract from, 11, 30
Chelidonius, 247
Chelonites of Porta, 283
Chester’s “Love’s Martyr,” 170
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” 330
Chinese referred to by Pliny, 28
Churchyard grass, remedial virtues of, 189
Cinirus, 124
Cinnabar, how produced, 137
Coats, extract from, 120, 194
Cobbe on the creation of monsters, 145
Cobra stone, 298
Coca plant, properties of, 18
Cock, 154, 232, 238
Cock-ale, 234
Cockatrice, 236, 267
Cockeram’s Dictionary, 288
Cockle, 196
Cogan, “Haven of Health,” 45, 167, 231, 277, 301
Coleridge on Nightingale, 252
Cole’s “Adam in Eden,” 48
“Art of simpling,” 188
Colours of dying dolphin, 330
Comets like blazing swords, 319
Composition of Venice Treacle, 229
Coney-fish, 209
Convulsions, remedy for, 167, 186
Coolness of blood of elephant, 149
Cornishmen tailed, 68
Corvia, 247
Cos, dragon of, 110
“Cosmography,” Munster’s, 34, 97, 127, 130, 139, 149, 220
Crabs’ eyes a remedy, 235, 335
Crabs generating scorpions, 297
Crane, 56, 260
Crapaudine, or toad stone, 281
Creatures of the fire, 295
Crippled feet of Chinese ladies, 15
Crocodile, 286, 294
Crocuta, 124
Cross on donkey’s back, 184, 186
Crow, sagacity of, 177
Cruelty in preparation of recipes, 48, 248, 335
Ctesias on griffin, 276;
on unicorn, 130
Cubs of bear a shapeless mass, 161
Cuckoo broth, 235
Culverwort, 16
“Curiosities of Heraldry,” 237
“Cursor Mundi,” extract from, 242
Cuttle-fish, 335
Cuvier on phœnix, 204;
on Pliny, 21
“Cymbeline,” extract from, 208
Cynamolgi, 72
Dagon, the fish god, 93
_Daily Post_, advertisement from, 90
Dallaway on unicorn, 133
Dead animals generating other creatures, 311
Dead men’s bones, oil from, 278
Deaf as an adder, 303
“De Animalibus” of Aristotle, 31
Death song of the swan, 229
Death-dealing cocatrice, 237
Decker on unicorn’s horn, 134
Deer, 173, 270
“De Humana Physiognomonica,” 78
“De Miraculis,” story from, 108
Democritus on serpent generation, 307
Derceto, 97
De Thaun, “Bestiary” of, 50, 124, 132, 185, 204, 292
Devil’s-bird, 241
“De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 160
Diamond dissolving, 178
Differences in aim in zoological study, 4
Digby, “The Closet Open,” 234
“Dirge,” extract from Gay’s, 241
Dioscorides, writings of, 95
“Discoverie of witchcraft,” 113
“Display of Heraldrie,” Guillim, 52, 120
Divining rod in use, 37
Doctrine of Signatures, 251
Dodœns, extract from, 309
Dog, 8, 119, 187, 189, 270, 316
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Natural history, lore and legend : $b Being some few examples of quaint and by-gone beliefs gathered in from divers authorities, ancient and mediæval, of varying degrees of reliability — John Shaqi
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