INDEX.
“So essential did I consider an Index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive an author, who publishes a book without an Index, of the privilege of copyright, and, moreover, to subject him to a pecuniary penalty.”—Campbell’s Lives of the Chief-Justices of England.
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]
Aahmes I., chaplets from coffin of, [233]
“Absalom and Achitophel,” Dryden, [126]
“Abyssinia, Life in,” Parkyns, [14]
Achemedis, herb, [199]
Acipenser, [158]
Acosta, “Natvrall and Morall Historie,” [219]
Adam, earliest botanist, [181]
Adder, wilfully deaf, [67], [148]
Addison’s “Milton Imitated,” [99]
Adelaide of Louvain, [218]
Adissechen, the thousand-headed, [146]
Adolf Dux, article by, [197]
Ælian on aspis, [147];
on basilisk, [49];
on lion and ram-headed fish, [160];
on unicorn, [9]
Æneas Sylvius on barnacle tree, [174]
Ætius on basilisk, [49];
on dryinus, [49]
“Africa, History of,” Leo, [30]
Agnus Dei, as a badge, [74]
Alaus Magnus on kraken, [150]
Albertus Magnus, “De Virtutibus Herbarum,” [234];
dragon, [28];
on pigmies, [125]
Alchemists and phœnix, [54]
Aldrovandus, “Monstrorum Historia,” [31], [79], [87], [161]
Alimos plant, [197]
Amaranth, [177]
Amazons, [95]
Ambrosia, [183]
Amphisbena, [148]
Anacramseros plant, [199]
Andromeda and Perseus, [19]
Annulet as mark of cadency, [232]
Anthropophagi, [94]
Antipathy between dragon and elephant, [42];
between serpent and stag, [15]
Antony and Cleopatra, [91], [188]
Apples of Hesperides, [40];
of Istkahar, [196];
of perpetual youth, [196]
Apollo Epicurius, temple of, [222]
Apuleius, “The Golden Ass,” [184]
Arabia, home of the phœnix, [50]
“Arabian Nights,” [7], [40], [69], [132], [140], [196]
Archaic pottery, British Museum, [85]
Ardoynus on basilisk, [49]
Arian v. Athanasian, [209]
Arimaspian gold, [69]
Arimaspians, [98]
Arion and the dolphins, [158]
Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso,” [50], [70]
Aristotle on chameleon, [77];
on pigmies, [125]
Arms of City of London, [70];
of Prince of Wales, [234];
of William de Valence, [134]
Arrowheads or Celts, [108]
“Art of Love,” King’s, [49]
Asbestos, [61]
Asphodel, [180]
Aspis, [147]
Assembly of Beaux Esprits, Paris, [10]
Ass, Indian, of Ctesias, [7]
“As you Like it,” [54]
“Atlas Geographicus,” [231]
Aubrey’s “Gentilisme and Judaisme,” [31], [227]
Augustine, St., on the manipulation of facts, [216];
on monsters, [41]
Avebury stones, [58]
Avicen on basilisk, [49]
Bacon on the sphinx legend, [83];
“Wisdom of the Ancients,” [220], [224]
Badge of Jane Seymour, [53]
Balam, the ox, [159]
Ballad of dragon of Wantley, [33];
of St. George and dragon, [211]
“Bara Bathra,” [151]
Basil, herb, [200]
Basilisk, king of serpents, [48], [91]
Barliata, [175]
Barnacle goose-tree, [168]
Bartolomeo, standard of, [6]
Basking shark, [146]
Bay tree, [234]
Beaumont and Fletcher’s “Woman Hater,” [48]
Beaux Esprits, assembly of, [10]
Behemoth legend, [152]
Ben Jonson on remora, [159]
“Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume, [43]
Bestiary of De Thaun, [67], [147], [218]
Bewick’s books, [2]
Bible Herbal of Newton, [183]
Bible references to adder, [67];
amaranth, [178];
cockatrice, [46];
dragon, [19];
giants, [129];
leviathan, [152];
mandrake, [193];
unicorn, [4]
Bird of paradise, [135]
Blemmyes, headless men, [97]
Boiastuau, “Histoires Prodigeuses,” [224]
“Boke of Husbandry,” Fitzherbert, [204]
Bolyai, tomb of, [197]
Bones preserved in churches, [59]
Borghese centaur, [85]
Borrowing from the fairies, [228]
Boussetti on monsters, [161]
Brathwait’s “Nature’s Embassie,” [224]
Breydenbach’s Travels, [62]
Bristol, great bone at, [59]
“Britannia,” Camden, [217]
“Britannica Concha Anatifera,” [175]
British Museum, centaur, [85], [222];
Lansdowne MSS., [31];
Scythian lamb, [71]
Brobdingnag, men of, [99]
Browne’s “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” [199];
“Vulgar Errors,” [31], [69], [190]
Brownie, [119]
Bruce on the horned viper, [232]
Bruynswyke’s Herbal, [182]
Bryony roots carved into human form, [190]
Bucca, [121]
Buckland’s “Curiosities of Natural History,” [60]
Buffalo, [12]
Burton’s “Miracles of Art and Nature,” [4], [71], [93], [153], [194]
Bury Palliser’s “Historic Badges,” [6]
Bushmen, the modern pigmies, [127]
Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,[157], [196];
on nautilus, [155]
Cadency in heraldry, [232]
Cader Idris, the giant’s seat, [131]
Cadwallader, ensign of, [33]
Caerleon, great bone at, [59]
Camden’s “Britannia,” [217]
“Canterbury Tales,” [104]
Capitoline Museum sculptures, [222]
Cassandra’s gift, [163]
Catacombs of Rome, [5]
Cathay and the vegetable lamb, [71]
Catoblepas of Pliny, [49]
Caxton and the “Legenda Aurea,” [22]
Cedric the Victorious, [33]
Celtic pen-dragon, [33]
Celts or arrow-heads, [108]
Centaur, [84]
Cerastes or horned viper, [232]
Cetus of De Thaun, [151]
“Ceylon,” Tennant, [127]
Changeful colours of dolphin, [157]
Changelings, [110]
Chang, the Chinese giant, [130]
Chaplets in Egyptian tombs, [178]
Charles II., dedication to, [47]
Chaucer on Sir Guy of Warwick, [56]
Chesterfield, great bone at, [59]
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Byron, [157], [196]
Chilon, [160]
China, the dragon symbol, [27]
Chiron the Centaur, [222]
“Chronicles,” Holingshead, [113]
City of London, arms of, [70]
Clawed men of Surinam, [97]
Clement of Alexandria, [177]
Clusius, “Rariorum Plantarum Historia,” [181]
Coats, the heraldic chimæra, [84]
Coca leaf, [195]
Cockatrice, [44]
Cockeram’s “English Dictionary,” [198]
Coinage, the unicorn, [6]
Colebrand the champion, [55]
Coleridge on giants, [132]
“Comedy of Errors,” [90], [91]
Comptes Royaux of France, [6]
“Comus,” Milton, [119]
“Coriolanus,” [40]
“Corona Dedicatoria” of Sylvester, [53]
“Cosmography” of Munster, [173]
Cotter, the Irish giant, [130]
Cottonian MSS., [218]
Coventry, great bone at, [58]
Crane and pigmy combats, [125]
Crescent as a mark of cadency, [232]
Crest of Earl Douglas, [64]
Crocodile, reference in Job, [154]
Ctesias on griffin, [68];
Indian ass, [7];
on pigmies, [126]
Cupid and Psyche, [184]
“Curiosities of Natural History,” Buckland, [60]
Cuttle fish, [150]
Cwm Pwcca, Brecon, [122]
Cyoeraeth, [121]
Dacien and St. George, [25]
Danby, picture by, [184]
Dart, [44]
Darwin on vampyre bat, [76]
Davy Jones’s locker, [161]
Dead as a door nail, [124]
Dead Sea apples, [196]
De Bry’s “India Orientalis,” [185]
Decker on the unicorn, [6]
“Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” [22], [209]
De Ferry and sea-serpent, [144]
Democritus on chameleon, [78]
“Description Historique de Macaçar,” [186]
“Description of 300 Animals,” [2], [44]
De Thaun, [8], [67], [136], [147], [151], [191], [218]
Device of Francis I., [61];
of Henry VII., [33]
Devil fish, [150]
Devil’s candle, [193]
“De Virtutibus Herbarum,” [234]
Diamond softening, [199]
Dies, [160]
Diocletian the persecutor, [25]
Dioscorides on basilisk, [49]
Discourses of Virtuosi of France, [10]
“Discoverie of Witchcraft,” [103]
“Display of Heraldry,” Guillim, [7]
Dodoens, Herbal of, [182]
Dolphin, [156]
Donatus, St., dragon-slayer, [20]
Dragon, [2], [16], [133], [192], [211], [229]
Dragonhill, Berkshire, [33]
Dragonnades, [39]
Dragon overthrown, knighthood of, [27]
Druids and fairies, [102]
Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, [126];
on basilisk, [48];
“Flower and the Leaf,” [227];
translation from Ovid, [52]
Dryinus of Ætius, [49]
Dudaim, [193]
Dugdale on Guy of Warwick, [55]
Dugong and Manatee, [91]
Du Mont and the dragon of Rhodes, [231]
Dun cow legend, [55]
Eagle gazing on the sun, [133]
Eagney or Meto, [197]
Earl Douglas, crest of, [64]
Eastern Soudan and Uganda, [7]
Echeneis or Remora, [158]
Eden’s “Historie of Travayle,” [94]
Egede and the sea-serpent, [144]
Egg-talisman, [147]
Egyptian form of sphinx, [82];
love of flowers, [235]
Egyptian representations of giraffe, [63]
Eikon Basilike, [202]
El Dorado and Sir W. Raleigh, [95]
Elephant, [15], [79];
antipathy between dragon and, [42]
Elf-bolts, [109]
Elizabeth, Queen, badge of, [53]
El Kazwini, Arab writer, [7]
“Elysium,” Felicia Hemans’, [177]
Empusa, [14]
Enchanter’s nightshade, [193]
“English Cyclopædia of Natural History,” [7]
“English Dictionary” of Cockeram, [198]
“English Parnassus” of Poole, [103], [120]
Enmity between stag and serpent, [15]
Epitaph on Gryphius, [70]
Erasmus on headless men, [97];
Sileni Alcibiadis, [228]
Ethiopia, unicorns in, [4]
Exodus, reference to unicorn in, [5]
“Faculties of Nourishment,” Galen, [180]
Fairy rings, [104]
Falstaff, on fairies, [110];
the salamander, [64]
Fanesii of Scandinavia, [98]
Father Pigafetta on dragons, [30]
Fauns and satyrs, [86]
Featley’s recantation, [31]
Felicia Hemans’ “Elysium,” [177]
Ferrer de Valcebro on the Barliata, [175]
Ferry, Laurent de, on sea-serpent, [144]
Field, extract from, [65]
Field of the cloth of gold, [61]
Fire-drake, [147]
“Fire-worshippers,” Moore, [193]
Fish nun, [159]
Fitzherbert’s “Boke of Husbandry,” [204]
Fletcher’s “Purple Island,” [51]
Fleur-de-lys as mark of cadency, [232]
“Flower and the Leaf,” Dryden, [227]
Foersch on upas tree, [185]
Forty-leaved plant, [197]
Four-footed serpents, [71]
Francisci Boussetti on sea-monsters, [161]
Friar’s lantern, [123]
Fuller’s “Holy State,” [132]
Galen on aspis, [147];
on basilisk, [49];
“Faculties of Nourishment,” [180]
Garcias ab Horto, on unicorn, [9]
Gargoyles of draconic form, [28]
Ge and Tartaros, rebellion of, [131]
Gelasius, Pope, and St. George, [210]
Gelotaphilois, herb, [199]
Generation of the cockatrice, [44]
“Gentilisme and Judaisme” of Aubrey, [31]
“Gentleman’s Magazine,” extract from, [117]
Geography of Strabo, [125]
George, St., and dragon, [23], [31], [209-211]
“Gerania” of Joshua Barnes, [127]
Gerarde, “History of Plants,” [168], [180];
asphodel, [180];
barnacle goose-tree, [168];
mandrake, [189]
Gervaise, “Description de Macaçar,” [186]
Gervase, on fairies, [102]
Ghoul, [75]
Giant Colebrand, [55]
Giants, [128]
Giants’ Causeway, [130]
Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” [22], [209]
Gillius the compassionate, [156]
Giraffe or seraffa, [63]
Giraldus Cambrensis on barnacle trees, [175]
Glanvil, on griffin, [68];
on salamander, [60]
Gnomes, [119]
Godes-andsacan, [20]
“Golden Ass” of Apuleius, [184]
Golden fruit of the Hesperides, [40]
Graham’s “Sketches of Perthshire,” [121]
Greek form of sphinx, [82]
Greene on the apples of the Hesperides, [40]
Green, Matthew, “The Spleen,” [132]
Grevinus on basilisk, [49]
Groats from Fairyland, [109], [120], [228]
Gryphius, device of, [70]
Guerino, Meschino, [98]
Guild processions in Middle Ages, [86]
Guiana, Hartsinck on, [97];
Sir W. Raleigh on, [95]
Guillaume, “Bestiare Divin,” [43]
Guillim, “Display of Heraldry,” [7], [41], [46], [88], [134]
“Gulliver’s Travels,” [132]
Guy of Warwick and the Dun Cow, [55], [217]
Hackluyt’s “Voyages,” [97], [219]
Halliwell on anthropophagi, [94]
Hameh-bird, [140]
“Hamlet,” satyr, [86]
“Handmayd to Religion,” [31]
Harrington and the sea-serpent, [142]
Hartsinck on Guiana, [97]
Headless men, [94]
Hemans, Felicia, poem by, [177]
Heraldic bird-forms, [134];
dolphin, [156]
“Herball to the Bible” of Newton, [189]
Herbert’s “Jacula Prudentum,” [132];
“Relations of some yeares Travaile,” [186]
Herb Viva, [198]
Hercules and the pigmies, [126]
“Henry IV.,” [74], [112], [123]
“Henry VIII.,” [54], [56], [147]
Heraldic cockatrice, [46];
dolphin; [156]
griffin, [70];
Pegasus, [73];
phœnix, [53];
unicorn, [4]
“Heraldry, display of,” by Guillim, [7], [41], [46]
Herodotus, griffin, [69];
phœnix, [50], [52];
pigmies, [125]
Hesiod, chimæra, [84];
harpy, [87]
Hesperides, garden of the, [40]
Heylin on St. George, [31]
Hilary, St., dragon-slayer, [20]
Hindu sacred groves, [177]
Hippeau on Guillaume, [44], [216]
Hippice, [199]
“Histoire Naturelle,” [231]
“Histoires Prodigeuses,” Boiastuau, [224]
“Historia Monstrorum,” [31], [79], [87], [161], [224]
“Historic Badges,” Palliser, [6]
“Historie of Travayle” of Eden, [94]
“History of Africa,” John Leo, [30]
“History of Ethiopia,” Ludolphus, [231]
“History of Plants,” [168], [180]
Hog-faced gentlewoman, [92]
Holingshead’s “Chronicles,” [113]
Holland’s edition of Pliny, [155]
Hollerius, [201]
Hollybush, Miles Coverdale, [183]
“Holy State,” Fuller, [132]
“Holyday devotions,” [31]
Home of the pigmies, [126]
Homer, ambrosia, [183];
asphodel, [180];
centaur, [85];
harpy, [87];
“Iliad,” [125], [184];
“Odyssey,” [177]
Hondius and Sir W. Raleigh, [95]
“Honour, Titles of,” Selden, [32]
Hoole’s “Orlando Furioso,” [50]
Horned viper or cerastes, [232]
Hudibras, quotation from, [168]
“Humana Physiognomonia,” of Porta, [93]
Humma-bird, [136]
Huppe-bird, [136]
Hydra, [149]
Ibis, [137]
Idolatrous groves, [177]
Ignis fatuus, [122]
Indian ass, [7];
serpent legend, [163]
“India Orientals,” of De Bry, [185]
Invisibility of fairies, [103]
Iormungandur the encircler, [146]
Isaiah, reference to cockatrice, [46]
Isidore on onocentaur, [85]
Jack-o’-Lantern, [122]
Jack the Giant-killer, [128]
“Jacula Prudentum,” by Herbert, [132]
Jane Seymour, badge of, [53]
Java and its upas trees, [184]
Jeremiah, cockatrice, [46];
dragon, [41]
“Jerusalem Delivered,” Tasso, [99]
Jewish tradition, [152], [159]
Job, leviathan, [152];
unicorn, [5]
Jodocus Hondius, [95]
John Leo, “History of Africa,” [30]
John of Arragon, salamander device of, [61]
Johnson on Gerarde, [172]
Joshua Barnes, the “Gerania,” [127]
Juvenal, pigmy combats, [125]
Kadmos, founding of Thebes, [38]
Kalli Naga, [20]
Kalpa Tarou tree, [176]
Kerzereh flowers, [188]
Kew, lotus chaplets at, [179], [233];
upas tree at, [185]
Keymis on Guiana, [96]
“King Henry IV.,” [74], [112], [123], [190]
“King Henry VI.,” [54], [91], [190]
“King Henry VIII.,” [54], [56]
“King Lear,” [39]
“King Richard III.,” [40], [45]
“King’s Art of Love,” [49]
Knockers, [117]
Kobold, [119]
Kœmpfer on upas tree, [186]
Koran, the fish nun, [159];
the lote tree, [176];
the ox Balam, [159]
Kraken, [149]
Kuchlein’s illustrations, [98]
Kyonjik sculptures, [177]
Label as a mark of cadency, [232]
Ladon and the Hesperides, [40]
“L’Allegro” of Milton, [120], [123]
Lamia, [13]
Lane’s “Arabian Nights,” [7], [40], [69]
Languedoc and its dragon, [21]
Lansdowne MSS. in British Museum, [31], [227]
Lapithæ and Centaurs, [222]
Laurence Keymis on Guiana, [96]
Laurent de Ferry and sea-serpent, [144]
“Legenda Aurea” of Voraigne, [22]
Legends of the Talmud, [152], [159]
Leo, “History of Africa,” [30]
“Life in Abyssinia,” Parkyns, [14]
Lig-draca, [20]
Lion, [3]
Lion-headed fish, [160]
“Lives of the Saints,” [22]
Livre des Créatures, De Thaun, [218]
Lobel and Pena’s book, [175]
Lobos, Father, and the unicorn, [231]
Lomie, [71]
London, arms of City of, [70]
Long-eared men or Fanesii, [98]
Lote tree of Koran, [176]
Lotophagia, [177]
Loup-garou or wehr-wolf, [75]
Loup, St., dragon-slayer, [20]
Louvre, Borghese centaur, [85], [222]
Lucian on asphodel, [180]
Ludolphus, “History of Ethiopia,” [231]
Lurlei of the Rhine, [90]
Lyte and Dodoens, herbal of, [182]
Mab, the fairy queen, [103], [120]
“Macaçar; Description Historique du Royaume de,” [186]
“Macbeth,” [39]
Magrath, the giant, [130]
Maid of Orleans and the mandrake, [189]
Mallwyd, great bone at, [59]
Manatees and Dugongs, [91]
Mandeville on griffin, [68];
headless men, [97];
pigmies, [196];
vegetable lamb, [71]
Mandrake, [188]
Man-eater and Rompo, [12]
Mansfield Parkyns’ “Life in Abyssinia,” [14]
Manticora, [13]
Maori traditions, [127]
Marcel, St., dragon-slayer, [21]
Marco Polo’s travels, [219]
Marks of abatement and augmentation, [88];
of cadency, [134]
Martha, St., dragon-slayer, [21]
Martial, St., dragon-slayer, [21]
Martin, St., dragon-slayer, [20]
Martin’s “Philosophical Grammar,” [229]
Mary Stuart, badge of, [204]
Matthew Green, “The Spleen,” [132]
Matthiolus, herbal of, [181]
McQuahee and the sea-serpent, [143], [145]
“Measure for Measure,” [131]
Mediæval dragon recipes, [29];
festivals, [98]
“Merchant of Venice,” [196]
Metamorphoses, [202]
Meto or Eagney, [197]
Metopes of Parthenon, [222]
Michovius on griffin-land, [69]
“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” [39], [90], [120]
Miles Coverdale, Hollybush, [183]
Milton, amaranth, [178];
Arimaspians, [98];
chimæra, [84];
gorgon, [84];
griffin, [69];
harpy, [87];
hydra, [84];
“L’Allegro,” [120], [123];
“Paradise Lost,” [98], [123], [178];
Will o’ the wisp, [123]
“Milton imitated,” Addison, [99]
Mimosa sensitiva, [198]
Minotaur, [48]
“Miracles of Art and Nature,” Burton, [4], [71], [93], [153], [194]
Monacella, St., bone of, [59]
Money, fairy, [109], [120], [227], [228]
“Monstrorum Historia” of Aldrovandus, [31], [79], [87], [161], [224]
Monuments of Egypt, [63]
Moore, “Fire worshippers,” [193];
Kerzereh flower, [188];
“Lalla Rookh,” [107], [135];
“Paradise and the Peri,” [54], [136];
“Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” [188]
More Hall of Wantley, [34]
Mountain fish, [149]
Mouse, [16]
“Much Ado about Nothing,” [87]
Munster’s “Cosmography,” [173]
Murphy the Irish giant, [130]
Musical tastes of the dolphin, [158]
Narcissus, possibly the asphodel, [180]
National Library, Paris, [44]
“Natural History of Norway,” Pontoppidan, [145]
“Nature’s Embassie,” Brathwait, [223]
“Natvrall and Morall Historie” of Acosta, [219]
Naud the pen-dragon, [33]
Nautilus, [155]
Nech of Scandinavia, [121]
Nectar of the gods, [183]
Newton’s “Bible Herbal,” [183], [189]
Newts spitting fire, [64]
Nicander on the aspis, [147]
Nickard, [229]
“Night Thoughts,” Young, [126]
Nineveh and Persepolis, sculptures at, [19]
Ninina, unicorns of, [231]
Nis, [119]
Nixies, [102]
Nova Hispania, flora of, [197]
Nun, the fish, [159]
“Nuremburg Chronicle,” [97]
Nymphs, [119]
Nzi Khonsou, the princess, [233]
Oats, fairy, [100]
Oberon, [103]
Octavianus the reliable, [175]
Octopus, [150]
Odysseus, the Lotophagi, [177];
the Sirens, [89]
Og, the king of Bashan, [129]
Ojibiway legend of the serpent, [163]
Olaus Magnus and the sea-serpent, [143]
Onocentaur, [85]
Ophyasta, herb, [199]
Oppian, pigmy combats, [125]
Order of the dragon, [22];
of the dragon overthrown, [27]
Oribasius on the basil, [201]
Origin of fairies, [101]
“Orlando Furioso,” of Ariosto, [50], [70]
Orpheus and the Sirens, [89]
“Ortus sanitatis,” [219]
Osiris the judge, [178]
“Othello,” [189]
Ovid on ambrosia, [183];
phœnix, [52]
Owen, Professor, on sea-serpents, [145]
Ox Balam, the, [159]
Ox, wild, [15]
Oyle of castor, [153]
Palliser’s “Historic Badges,” [6]
Palm-tree emblem, [194], [202]
Pan, [124]
Paracelsus on the phœnix, [54]
“Paradise Lost,” Milton, [98], [123]
“Paradise and the Peri,” Moore, [54], [136]
Parker on poisonous trees, [187]
Parkinson’s “Theater of Plants,” [172], [180], [190]
Parkyns’ “Life in Abyssinia,” [14]
Parthenon sculptures, [85], [222]
Paulus Venetus on unicorn, [9]
Peccata Naturæ, [42]
Pedal sunshades, [98]
Pegasus, [73]
Pelican legend, [133]
Pelion on Ossa, [131]
Pen-dragon, [33]
Pennant Melangell, great bone at, [59]
Percy’s “Reliques of Antient English Poetry,” [34], [56], [211]
“Peregrine Pickle” of Smollett, [162]
Persepolis, sculptures at, [19]
Perseus and Andromeda legend, [19]
“Perthshire, Sketches of,” [121]
Pheg of the Tsi-hiai, [152]
Philip de Thaun, [8], [67], [191]
Philostratus on the pigmies, [125]
“Philosophical Grammar,” Martin, [229]
Phoca, Pooka, or Pwcca, [121], [133]
Phœnix, [50], [134], [217], [229]
Phœnix-tree, [217]
Pigafetta on dragons, [30]
Pigmies, [124]
Pink centaury, [85]
Pliny on basilisk, [48];
bay-tree, [201];
chameleon, [78];
dolphin, [156];
dragon, [29], [42];
Echeneis, [158];
Fanesii, [98];
giant, [130];
kraken, [149];
nautilus, [155];
phœnix, [51];
pigmies, [125];
salamander, [60];
serpent’s eggs, [147];
sphinx, [82];
stag, [15];
unicorn, [9];
wolf, [11]
Plutarch’s giant, [130]
Poison-detecting cups, [4], [6], [7]
Poison of salamander, [62]
Polonius and the whale, [152]
Polyphemus, the foe of Ulysses, [99]
Pomum Adami, [196]
Pontoppidan, Kraken, [150];
“Natural History of Norway,” [145]
Poole’s “English Parnassus,” [103]
Pope, nautilus, [155];
“Rape of the Lock,” [119]
Pope Pius II. on barnacle trees, [175]
Porpoises as sea-serpents, [144]
Porta’s “Humana Physiognomonia,” [93]
Potto, [16]
Prester John, [126]
Prince of Wales, arms of, [232]
Prior on the chameleon, [77]
“Proper study of mankind is man,” [81]
Psalms, reference to adder, [67];
leviathan, [154];
unicorn, [5]
“Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” [199]
Puck, [102]
Purchas Pilgrimage, [219]
“Purple Island” of Fletcher, [51]
Python, [20]
Queen Elizabeth, badge of, [53]
Quentin Durward, Scott, [12]
Raleigh, Sir W., voyage to Guiana, [95]
Ram-headed fish, [160]
“Rape of the Lock,” [119];
of Lucrece, [70]
“Rariorum Plantarum Historia” of Clusius, [181]
Red-dragon ensign, [33]
Red lion, [3]
Reginald Scot on witchcraft, [103]
Regulus, [46]
“Relations of some yeares Travaile,” [186]
“Reliques of Antient English Poetry,” [34], [56], [211]
“Reminiscences,” Taylor, [145]
Remora, [158]
Resurrection, phœnix type of, [50]
Rhinoceros horn cups, [7]
Rhodes, dragon of, [231]
Ribbon fish, [145]
Richardson on phœnix, [54]
Riddle of the sphinx, [83]
Robin Goodfellow, [102], [119]
Romanus, St., dragon-slayer, [20]
“Romeo and Juliet,” [40], [45], [190]
Rompo or man-eater, [12]
Rondelet’s sea-monsters, [161]
Rose as mark of cadency, [232]
Royal arms, supporters of, [6]
Royal Society, Proceedings of, [10], [71], [230]
Rustic beliefs as to newts, &c., [64]
Sacred trees, [177]
Sagittarius, [85]
Saint George and the dragon, [23], [211]
Saint Mary Redcliff, large bone at, [59]
Saints as dragon-slayers, [20], [21]
Salamander, [60]
Sanguis huppæ, [137]
Saxo Grammaticus on barnacle tree, [174]
Saxon martyrology, [32]
Scaliger on basilisk, [49]
Scoresby’s “Voyages,” [92]
Scot, Reginald, on witchcraft, [103]
Scotland and the unicorn, [6]
Scott, elf-possession, [113];
friar’s lantern, [123];
wolf, [12]
Sketches of Nineveh and Persepolis, [19], [128]
Scythian lamb, [71]
Sea bishop, [161];
elephant, [72], [145];
hare, [200];
horse, [72];
lion, [160];
monk, [161];
serpent, [48], [141]
Selden’s “Titles of Honour,” [32]
Sensitive plant, [198]
Seraffa of Breydenbach, [63]
Shakespeare, basilisk, [48];
cockatrice, [45];
dragon, [39];
fire-drake, [147];
griffin, [70];
harpy, [87];
mandrake, [188];
Pegasus, [73];
phœnix, [53], [218];
pigmies, [126];
will-o’-the-wisp, [123];
unicorn, [217]
Sigonius on basilisk, [49]
Sileni Alcibiadis, [226]
Sindbad the Sailor, [69], [138]
Siren, [14], [89], [224], [229]
Sirena, [18]
Sirenia, [92]
Sir Walter Raleigh and Guiana, [95]
“Sketches of Perthshire,” [121]
Skimker, Mistress, [92]
Sloane Library, [218]
Smollett’s “Peregrine Pickle,” [162]
Solinus on basilisk, [49]
Sourd story from the Field, [65]
South Kensington Museum, [184]
Sowing of dragon’s teeth, [38]
Spenser’s “Visions of the World’s Vanity,” [159]
Spirits of the mine, [117]
“Spleen,” Matthew Green, [132]
Squier’s “Serpent Worship,” [163]
Stag, [14]
Standard of Bartolomeo d’Alviano, [6]
Staple Hill stone ring, [58]
Star as mark of cadency, [232]
Stephen, arms of King, [85]
“Stirpium Adversaria Nova,” [175]
Strabo on pigmies, [125]
Stronsay, sea monster at, [146]
Struy’s Voyages, [219]
Stuttgard anthropophagi, [98]
Suchenwirt on battle-cries, [32]
Supporters of the Royal Arms, [4], [6]
Surinam, clawed men of, [97]
Sylene and its dragon, [22]
Sylphs, [119]
Sylvester’s “Corona Dedicatoria,” [53]
Symbol, dragon as a, [28];
stag as a, [15]
Symbolism of phœnix, [50], [55]
Tacitus, Dead Sea apples, [196];
phœnix, [55]
Tailed men, [93]
Talmud, legends of the, [152], [159]
“Taming of the Shrew,” [73]
Tartarian lamb, [71]
Tartaros and Ge, rebellion of, [131]
Tasso’s “Jerusalem Delivered,” [99]
Tausend-gulden-kraut, [224]
Tavernier on birds of paradise, [135]
Taylor’s “Reminiscences,” [145]
“Tempest,” fairy-rings, [108];
harpy, [87];
phœnix, [218];
unicorn, [218]
Templars, device of the, [74]
Tennant’s “Ceylon,” [127]
Tertullian on phœnix, [50]
“Theater of Plants,” Parkinson, [172], [190]
“Theatrum Botanicum,” [180]
Thebes, founding of, by Kadmos, [38]
Theocritus, on wolf, [11]
Theseum at Athens, [224]
Thevet on unicorn, [9]
“Three hundred animals,” [2], [44]
Throne of Tippoo Sultan, [136]
“Titles of Honour,” Selden, [32]
“Toilers of the Sea,” Victor Hugo, [150]
Tomb of Bolyai, [197]
Travellers’ tales, [195], [216]
“Travels,” Breydenbach, [62]
Tree of Life, [176]
Tree of the Imagination, [176]
Trichrug, the giant’s chair, [130]
Tritons, [90]
“Troilus and Cressida,” [39]
Tsi-hiai and the pheg, [152]
Tuacua, unicorns of, [231]
Turner, barnacle geese, [175];
herbal, [182]
“Twelfth Night,” [45]
Typhon, [20]
“Uganda and the Eastern Soudan,” [7]
Ulysses and Polyphemus, [99]
Umdhlebi tree, [187]
Unicorn, [3], [62], [217], [229]
Upas tree, [184]
Upton on the harpy, [88]
Vartomannus on unicorn, [9]
Vatican Library, [218]
Vegetable lamb, [71]
“Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” [188]
Venetus, Paulus, on unicorn, [9]
Veran, St., dragon-slayer, [20]
“Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon,” of Bruynswyke, [182]
Victor Hugo, “Toilers of the Sea,” [150]
Victor, St., dragon-slayer, [20]
Virgil, centaur, [84];
evil eye, [47];
harpy, [88];
wolf, [11]
Virtuosi, discoveries of, [10]
Vishnu, [20]
“Visions of the World’s Vanity,” Spenser, [159]
Viva, herb, [198]
Voraigne’s “Legenda Aurea,” [22]
“Voyages,” Hackluyt, [97];
Raleigh, [95];
Scoresby, [92];
Struy, [219]
Vulcan and the Cyclops, [99]
“Vulgar Errors,” Sir Thomas Browne, [31], [69]
Wantley, dragon of, [33]
“Warwickshire” of Dugdale, [55]
Water fairies, [102]
Waterton on vampyre bat, [76]
Weasel and cockatrice combat, [45]
Wehr-wolf or loup-garou, [75]
Wexel balg, [229]
Whale bones in churches, [60]
White Horse Hill, Berkshire, [33]
William de Valence, arms of, [134]
Will o’ the wisp, [122]
Winged serpent, [19]
“Wisdom of the Ancients,” Bacon, [219], [224]
Witches, [103]
“Woman Hater,” Beaumont and Fletcher, [48]
Wright on De Thaun, [218]
Wynkyn de Worde, [22]
Xanthus, monument from, [87]
Ylio of De Thaun, [68]
Young’s “Night Thoughts,” [126]
Zeus, ambrosial locks of, [184];
rebellion against, [131]
Zodiac, the Sagittarius, [85]
Zululand, poisonous trees in, [187]
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Page [235]—Achipenser amended to Acipenser—Acipenser, 158
Page [236]—Bousetti amended to Boussetti—Boussetti on monsters, 161
Page [236]—Brittannica amended to Britannica—“Britannica Concha Anatifera,”, 175
Page [237]—Cocatrice amended to Cockatrice—Cockatrice, 44
Page [237]—Royeaux amended to Royaux—Comptes Royaux of France, 6
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Page [238]—omitted page number added to entry for Heraldic dolphin—Heraldic ... dolphin, 156; griffin, ...
Page [239]—Pallisir amended to Palliser—“Historic Badges,” Palliser, 6
Page [239]—Joducus amended to Jodocus—Jodocus Hondius, 95
Page [240]—Nixes amended to Nixies—Nixies, 102
Page [240]—Nuremberg amended to Nuremburg—“Nuremburg Chronicle,” 97
Page [242]—Rondolet’s amended to Rondelet’s—Rondelet’s sea-monsters, 161
Page [242]—Sinbad amended to Sindbad—Sindbad the Sailor, 69, 138
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