Criminality, examples of imputed, 177-185; ancient and mediæval conceptions of, 200; punished for the safety of society, 211, 248; compared to vitriol, 212; supposed physical indices of, 213-217; casual and constitutional, 214-223; ativism the source of, 212, 215; the result of hypnotism, 223-225; due to many uncontrollable conditions, 230; motives underlying animal, 235; animals conscious of, 247; contagiousness of, 252, 256 Crollanza, his record of the prosecution of caterpillars, 122 Crosiers, vermifugal efficacy of, 30 Cybele, invoked against vermin, 133 Damhouder, Jacobus, picture of animal crimes in his _Rerum Criminalium Praxis_, 16; citations from this work, 109, 146; regards sexual intercourse with Jews, Turks, and Saracens as sodomy, 153 Dasturs, Parsi, Zarathushtra’s teachings degraded by the, 59 Demosthenes, cited, 172 Deodands, nature of, 186-190, 192; abolished in England under Queen Victoria, 192 Devils, their damage to landed property, 7; multiplied by the spread of Christianity, 13, 80; destined to eternal torments after the Last Judgment, 68-70; incarnate in every babe, 70; maladies produced by, 72; modern inventions the devices of, 229 Didymos, his “Geoponics,” 133 Dimitri, Prince, bell banished to Siberia for rejoicing over his assassination, 175 Dogs, trial and execution of mad, 176; crucified in Rome for imputed crime, 177 Döpler, Jacob, on sodomy, 152; on _Lex talionis_, 182; on vampires, 197 Dove, symbol of the Holy Ghost, 57 Draco (Drakôn), his law punishing weapons, 172 Dreyfus, his prosecution instigated by a sensational novel, 253-255 Ducol, Pierre, prosecutor of weevils, 38 Dumas, his _Count of Monte Christo_ cited, 240 Duret, Jean, his _Treatise on Pains and Penalties_, 108 Ecclesiastical tribunal, an, rejects the Mosaic law and discusses crime from a psychiatrical point of view, 170 Eldrad, St., expels serpents, 50 Electricity, execution by, 210 Elk, as demon, 90 Erechtheus, punishment of deadly weapons, 172 Erinnys, appeasing the, 174 Escheat, in Scotch law, 189 Eusebius, describes hell as very cold, 105 Eustace, St., 56 Evolution, dogma of original sin supplanted by the doctrine of, 232 Excommunications, pronounced against insects by the Church, 3; sold at Rome, 30; properly speaking, animals not subject to, 51, 100; comical survivals of, 128. _See_ Anathemas Exorcisms, their efficiency recognized by Heidelberg professors, 27; applied as plasters, 72; superseded by conjurations among Protestants, 125; by Mohammedans, 137 Falcon, Pierre, defender of weevils, 38 _Felo de se_, a sort of treason, 190. _See_ Suicide Feuchtersleben, Baron Von, records cases of morbid imitation, 253 Field-mice, conjuration of, 133 Flesh of executed animals tainted, 169