Bischofberger, Dr. Theobald, his curious theory of the effects of unexpiated crime on persons and property, 6-8; his recent brochure in defence of exorcisms, 73 Bischoff, Prof., his hobby refuted by the weight of his own brain, 218 Blackstone, on deodands, 186, 189, 192 Blood-letting, as a panacea in law and medicine, 194 “Blue Laws,” an advance in penal legislation, 209 Bodelschwingh, his _bacillus infernalis_, 91 Boehme, Jacob, his definition of magic, 127 Boër, Nicolaus, on cohabitation with a Jewess as sodomy, 153 Bogos, homicidal beasts executed by the, 155 Bonnivard, François, presides as judge in a trial of vermin, 38 Borromeo, Carlo, his cruelty in punishing heresy, 208 Bougeant, Père, his _Amusement Philosophique_ cited, 66-69; 80-86, 88-90, 92 Bracton, 167; on deodands, 186 Brain, its size not always a measure of mental capacity, 217-219 Browne, Dr. William Hand, cited, 187 Buggery, instances of this “nameless crime,” 147-153; she-ass acquitted and man condemned to death for, 150; in the Carolina punished with death by fire, 151; in the Mosaic law, 152; sexual intercourse with a Jewess regarded as, 153 Bull, executed for murder, 161 Calvin, his conception of God, 59 Canute, King, 178 Carolina, the, its severe penalties, 182 Carpzov, Benedict, on sodomy, 151 Cattle, bewitched by bad air, 8 Cervantes, 167 Character, factors in the formation of, 219; responsibility for, 239, 243 Charcot, Dr., on the curative power of faith, 80, 225 Chassenée, Bartholomew, his _Consilia_, 2, 21-23; distinguished as a defender of prosecuted rats, 18; equal rights of rats and Waldenses recognized by, 20; his erudition, 24; his absurd deductions, 26; regards animals as laity in the eye of the law, 32 Chinese, recent beheading of idols for murder, 174 Church, the, its treatment of noxious insects as incarnations of Satan and as agents of God, 3-6; capital punishment never inflicted by, 31; its power to stay the ravages of vermin unquestioned, 50 Cicero, cited, 22, 101; his approval of atrocious penalties, 178 Cock, burned at the stake for laying eggs, 10, 11, 162; nature and origin of its supposed eggs, 163-5 Cockatrice, 12, 163 Coleridge, his definition of madman, 228 Corpses, prosecuted and executed, 110, 198, 199; cannot inherit, 110 “Corruption of blood,” in theology and law, 181 Courcelle-Seneuil, his view of prisons, 212 Cows, executed for homicide, 169 Cranks, execution of, 249-251 Cretella, 17 Cretins, their brains not always abnormal, 219; sentenced to death, 251