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
Titian, device of, 161
Title-pages full of interest, old, 6, 34, 272
Titles of old books, 12
Toad, 236, 274, 279, 308
Toad-stone, 281
Toad-wort, 280, 298
To catch Sargi, 331
Tooth-ache, remedy for, 335
Topsell, extract from, 165, 168, 171, 179, 280
Torpedo, 257
Tortoise, sagacity of, 178
Tradescant’s museum, 209
Transfer of valuable animal properties to man, 8
Travellers’ tales, 3, 338
“Travels in Africa,” Barrow, 131
Travels of Le Gouz, 326
Treachery of the shrew mouse, 179
“Trip to Benwell,” extract from, 165
Troglodytes mentioned by Pliny and others, 3
“Troilus and Cressida,” extract from, 304
Tusser’s “Husbandry,” 301
“Two Gentlemen of Verona,” extract from, 296
Two-headed animals, 65
Unchangeableness of old customs, 13, 28
Urcheon, urchin, or hedgehog, 169
Use of elephant in war, 137
Value of personal observation, 199
“Varia Historia,” extract from, 95
Venice treacle, 9, 299
Venomous men, 43
Versipellis, the skin-turner, 106
Vervain in recipe, 8
Victoria Nyanza in old maps, 13
Viper in medicine, 298, 299
Virgil on bees, 261, 311
“Voiage and Travaile” of Maundevile, 15, 16, 110, 138, 202, 308
Warder, Dr., on bees, 261
Wart, to cure, 182, 190
Wasps from dead horse, 311
Waters of Lethe, 99
Weasel, 119, 188, 296, 318
Weather prognostics, 82, 170
Weeping of deer, 173
Wehr-wolves, 99, 104
Whales pacified with tubs, 37, 39
When venison should be avoided, 173
Whitney’s “Emblems,” 136
Whooping cough, remedy for, 163, 186, 188, 308
Why bears attack bee-hives, 163
Winstanley’s “Book of Knowledge,” 183, 248, 312
Wolf, 8, 118, 154, 157, 182
Wolf-headed man, 79
Wondrous beasts of mediæval fancy, 197
Woolly bear, 306
Wren, 249
Wright’s translation of De Thaun, 50
Xenophon on boar, 175
Ylio of De Thaun, 51
Yule’s translation of Jordanus, 14
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