Lapeyronie, his dissertation proving that cocks never lay eggs, 163 Le Bon, on hereditary criminality, 223 Leipsic, decision of the Law Faculty concerning a homicidal cow, 169 Leo XIII., his exorcism of Satan and apostate angels, 73 Letang, Louis, causal relation of his novel to the Dreyfus affair, 254 Lex talionis, striking applications of this oldest form of penal justice, 167; inflicts horrible mutilations, 182 Lilienberg, Mathias Abele Von, his record of a dog sentenced to prison, 175 Liszt, Prof. Von, on retributive and preventive penalties, 237 Locusts, expelled by exorcisms and aspergeoires, 3, 64; dispersed and destroyed by excommunication, 22, 93, 94; prosecution of, 95-108, 136 Lohbauer, Pater Franz Xaver, ascribes nervous disease to diabolical possession, 71 Lombroso, on animals as born criminals, 14; opposed to trial by jury, 185; regards tattooing, dark thick hair and thin beards, as signs of criminality, 213; on ativism as the source of crime, 215; innate criminality not eradicated by education, 223; compares the capital punishment of cretins and cranks to that of animals, 251 Lucifer, writhes under the water of Lourdes, 74 Lycia, punished by imputation, 180 Majolus, cited, 86 Maledictions. _See_ Anathemas Malleolus, Felix, his theory of exorcisms endorsed by Heidelberg professors, 27; records a prosecution of Spanish flies, 110; his formula for banning serpents, 121 Mangin, Arthur, cited, 16, 139 Manicheans, their doctrine of good and evil, 60 Manouvrier, Dr., likens Gambetta’s skull to that of a savage, 217 Mantegazza, Prof., his “tormentatore,” 245 Manu, Institutes of, 168 Marro, on metaphors as facts, 216 Mather, Cotton, records the execution of a pious Sodomite and eight beasts, 148 Ménebréa, M. L., 2, 17; his theory untenable, 40 Mephistopheles, the lord of rodents and vermin, 85 Mithridates, experiments with poisons, 244 Moles, prosecution of, 111-113 Monks, as landed proprietors in France, 158 Monomania, frequency of, 227 Morel, Claude, defender of weevils, 38 Mornacius, his record of mad dogs sentenced to death, 176 Morselli, Prof., on the causes of suicide, 229 Mosaic law, the, rejected by an ecclesiastical court, 170; barbarity of, 167, 180 Murder, miasma of, 9, 174; weapons tainted by, 187-190 Mutilations, in accordance with the Lex talionis, 176, 182 Mythology, monstrosities and metamorphoses of classical, 64; in modern life, 228 Naquet, regards criminals as no more culpable than poisons, 212 Narrenkötterlein, dog sentenced to a, 175 Nature, imperfection of, 61 Navarre, Dr., regards fish as cacodemons, 90 Nebuchadnezzar, a satanic metamorphosis, 63 Nikôn, his statue punished for manslaughter committed in self-defence, 172