Animals, prosecuted by civil and ecclesiastical courts, 2; office of the Church in repressing articulate and rodent, 3, 5; as satellites of Satan or agents of God, 5, 6, 52-57, 67; personification of, 10, 11; their competency as witnesses, 11; origin of their judicial prosecution, 12; as born criminals, 14; tendency of modern penology to efface the distinction between men and, 14, 193; instances of their criminal prosecution, 16, 18, 21, 37-50, 93-124, 134-157, 160-163; methods of procedure against, 31; whether legally laity or clergy, 32; punitive and preventive prosecution of, 33; their consciousness of right and wrong, 35, 247; false conception of the purpose of their prosecution, 40; can be anathematized, but not excommunicated, 51; items of expense in prosecuting, 49, 138, 140-143; not mere machines, 66; in folk-lore, 84; worship of, 85; imperfect lists of prosecuted, 135-137; burned and buried alive, 138; put to the rack to extort confession, 139; confiscation of valuable, 164, 189; unclean flesh of executed, 169; imputed criminality of, 177; criminals as ferocious, 212; mental and moral qualities of men and, 234; six categories of their criminal offences, 235; the safety of society the supreme law in the judicial punishment of men and, 247-252 Anatolus, his “Geoponics,” 133 Angel, Emile, cited, 124 Anglo-Saxon law, its retributive character, 168; its cruel doctrine of accessories, 178; on tainted swords, 187 Angrô-mainyush, 57, 59, 61, 82 Anthony, St., patron of pigs, 158 Anthropologists, criminal researches of 211, 215 Aquinas. _See_ Thomas Arcadius, his atrocious edict, 179 Ashes, modern and mediæval use of vermifugal, 53 Augustine, St., cited, 94, 106 _Aura corrumpens_ in houses and stalls, 8 Aurelian, Father, on diabolical possession, 75 Avesta, on exorcisms, 36; on good and evil creations, 57; on mad dogs, 176 Ayrault, Pierre, his protest against animal prosecutions, 109 Azpilcueta, Martin. _See_ Dr. Navarre. Baal-zebub (Beelzebub), fly-god, 84; his preference for black beasts, 165 Bailly, Gaspard, his _Traité des Monitoires_ cited, 52, 92-108 “Basilisk-egg,” 10 Basilius, St., his insect-expelling girdle, 136 Basilovitch, Ivan, his conception of retributive justice, 183 Bassos, Kassianos, prefers rat-bane to adjuration, 132 Beasts, sweet and stenchy, 55 Bees, tainted honey of homicidal, 9 Bell, banished to Siberia by the Russian Government, 175 Benedikt Prof., on the brain-formation of criminals, 212 Bernard, Claude, his idea of the physiologist, 245 Bernard, St., kills flies by cursing them, 28 Bernardes, Manoel, his _Nova Floresta_, 124 Berriat-Saint-Prix, his valuable researches, 2, 17, 20; list of prosecuted animals, 135-137 Bichat, his defective cranium, 217