TORNING, CHRISTIANUS J.: De Peccatis et Poenis Brutorum. A dissertation on graduating at the University of Upsala in Sweden. May 25, 1725. VAN HAAFTEN: Die Dieren als misdadigers voor den Rechter. Eigen Haard, 1884. VAIRO, LEONARDO: De Fascino libri tres, etc. Venet. 1599. VERNET: Lettre ... sur les Procès faits aux Animaux. Thémis, vol. viii. B., pp. 45-61. VIVIO, FRANCESCO: Decisiones. No. 68. 1610. DE WINDE: Byzonderheden uit de Geschiedeniss van het strafregt in de Nederlanden. Middelburg, 1827. ZEROLA, THOMAS: Praxis Episcopalis. Sub verbo Superstitio. Venet. 1599. INDEX Abbott, Rev. Lyman, regards bad impulses as suggestions of evil spirits, 76 Achan, his severe punishment by Joshua, 180 Addosio, Carlo d’, his _Bestie Delinquenti_ cited, 1, 4; his list of animal prosecutions, 135; on pigs as a public nuisance in Italy, 159 Æschines, cited, 172 Æschylus, his _Choephoroi_ cited, 174 Ahuramazda, 57, 61, 82, 176 Alard, Jean, burned alive as a Sodomite for coition with a Jewess, 153 Altiat, his poem quoted, 93 Amira, Prof. Karl von, his _Thierstrafen und Thierprocesse_ cited, 1-3, 137 Anathemas, only effective when formally complete, as with all incantations and excommunications, 4, 36; citations from the Bible in proof of their power, 25; render an orchard barren and expel eels and blood-suckers from Lake Leman, 27; turn white bread black to punish heresy, 28; fatal to swallows and flies, which disturb religious services, 28, 29; sold by the Pope, 30; hurled against noxious vermin, 37; made more effective by the prompt payment of tithes, 37; differ from excommunications, 51-54; superseded in Protestantism by prayer and fasting and in science by Paris green, 53