The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of AnimalsEvans, E. P. (Edward Payson)
History
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson)
Animals -- Law and legislation -- History; Animals, Prosecution and punishment of -- History; Trials -- Europe
Satan, his earthly sovereignty, 60, 70;
the doctrine of his final redemption, 68
Schilling, on the prosecution of inger, 113, 120
Schläger, cited, 176
Schleswig, its punishment of homicidal timber, 187
Schmid, Bernard, his sermon on the devastations by inger, 113-115
Scholasticism, quiddities of, 33
Schopenhauer, his theory of the will, 127;
man’s responsibility for character alone, 239, 243
Schwabenspiegel, barbarity of this old German code, 178
Schwarz Mining, prosecutor of moles, 112
Schweinfurter Sauhenker, origin of the term, 147
Serpents, destroyed by St. Eldrad, 51;
freed from poison by St. Hugon, 103
Shakespeare, alludes to “be-rhymed” rats, 130;
and a wolf on the gallows, 157
Silius Italicus, quoted, 103
Simon, Max, on the morbid spirit of imitation, 253
Sociology, its influence on criminal jurisprudence, 238
Socrates, on self-perfection, 234
Sodomy. _See_ Buggery
Soldan, cited, 17
Sparrows, put under ban by a Protestant parson, 128
Stephen VI., Pope, adjures locusts, 65;
prosecutes the corpse of his predecessor, 198;
strangled in prison, 199
Suicide, punishment of the wife and children of a, 190;
condemned as a crime and also recognized as a right, 191, 192;
due to manifold influences, 229
Superstition, fostered by bishops and Jesuits, 14
Swallows, anathematized for chattering in church, 28
Swine, execution of, 16, 140-145, 149, 153-157, 161, 169;
as stenchy beasts peculiarly attractive to devils, 56, 165;
Gadarene, 69, 91, 165
Swords, tainted, 187
Taine, his definition of man, 214
Tarde, defines the mob as a mad beast, 236
Tatian, his fellow-citizen punished for his offences, 180
Tattooing, not peculiar to criminals, 213
Termites, prosecuted by Franciscans in Brazil and praised by their
defender as more industrious than the friars, 123
Tertullian, quoted, 106
Theognis, his bust punished for murder, 172
Thomas à Becket, his bones burned by Henry VIII., 198
Thomas Aquinas, regarded animals only as diabolical incarnations, 53-55,
88, 101, 103
Thurneysser, his bottled scorpions and elk feared as demons, 90
Tithes, importance of the prompt payment of, 37, 94, 107
Tobler, G., on animal prosecutions in Switzerland, 1, 170
Treason, barbarously punished by Roman, Prussian, and Judaic law, 179-181
Trench, Richard Chevenix, his justification of the cursing of the
fig-tree, 25
Treufels, Richard, his belief in the exorcism at Wemding in 1891, 75
Tribunals, proper office of criminal, 211, 232, 248
Tritheim, on Satan’s invisible apparition, 166
Tschech, executed, and his innocent daughter exiled for his crime, 179
Türler, records the rejection of the Mosaic law by the ecclesiastical
court of Berne, 170
Vampires, superstitions concerning, 195-198
Vendetta, in semi-civilized communities, 178
Venidad, quoted, 63
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