Flies as demons, 28, 86 Florian, St., the protector of houses from fire, 136 Fly-flaps, papal, 29 Formosus, Pope, his corpse tried and condemned for usurpation, 198 Foscolo, Ugo, his cranium that of an idiot, 218 Fox, diabolical nature of the, 56 Frederic the Great, his penal reforms, 207 Fricker, Thüring, doctor of laws, chancellor and prosecutor of inger, 116 Gadflies, episcopal rescript against, 124 Galton, on heredity, 239 Gambetta, his small and abnormal brain, 217 Geese, sacred, rewarded at Rome for the vigilance of their foremothers, 177 Genius, to madness close allied, 228 Görres, recent case of conjuration recorded by, 125 Gratiolet, on the brain of the “Hottentot Venus,” 218 Greeks, ancient, ascribed pestilence to the miasma of unexpiated murder, 9, 174 Gregory of Tours, on bronze dormice and serpents as talismans, 132 Greysser, Daniel, the efficiency of bans not supernatural, 128 Gross, his mis-statement concerning the cock of Bâle, 162 Guiteau, deterrent effect of his execution, 250 Harpokration, Valerius, cited, 172 Harrison, Miss, cited, 187 Hart, symbolism of the, 56 Hawks, dead, as protectors of hens, 252 Hemmerlein, Felix. _See_ Malleolus Hens, crowing, 10 Heredity, its predetermining influence as viewed by theologians and scientists, 232 Heymanns, Mynheer, on responsibility for character, 243 Hierarchies, their failure in civil government, 249 Honorius, his atrocious edict, 179 Horses, condemned to death for homicide, 162 Hubert, St., 56 Hugon, St., expels venom from serpents by excommunication, 103 Hunters among savages, their superstitious fear of killing wild animals, 174 Hypnotism, its causal relation to crime, 223-226; as the basis of the witchcraft delusion, 225 Idols, decapitation of, 174 Inger, prosecuted and put under ban, 113-115; not in Noah’s Ark, 120 Insanity, degrees of, 200-203; in Italian and German law, 204-206; difficulty of defining, 226-228; in English law, 246; moral, 250; as a shelter for crime, 256 Insects, prosecution of, 37, 41-49; incarnations of demons, 86 Italy, palliation of crime in, 203, 204 Jeanneret, Marie, her toxicomania, 240-246 Jews, in Christian legislation on a par with beasts, 152, 165 John the Lamb, his curse fatal to fish, 28 Jonson, Ben, cited, 130 Jordan, Father, casts out devils with Lourdes water in 1887, 74 Jörgensen, cited, 17 Joshua, his penal cruelty, 180 King Mode, his discourse with Queen Reason, 55 Kirchenheim, Prof. Von, urges reform of our penal codes, 219 Koran, the, on the punishment of beasts, 171 Kukis, destroy homicidal trees, 171 Laas, his definition of judicial punishment, 238 Lacassagne, his six categories of crime, 235 Langevin, Pierre Gilles, fresco of the execution of a sow described by, 141