GENERAL INDEX

Names of men of learning will be found for the most part in the bibliographical index.

Aaron, [357], [379], [464], [507]
Abacus, [698], [704]
Abbreviation, [135], [500], [624]
Abdomen, diseases of, [577]
Abimelech, [399]
Abortion, [61], [94]
Abraham the patriarch, astrology and science of [350], [353], [355], [411], [703];
magic use of name of, [437], [449], [726]
Abraxas, [371], [379]
Abrotonum, an herb, [495]
Abscess, [93]
Abstinence from animal food, [295], [308], [314]
Academy, the, [268], [270], [602]
Accusation of magic against, Galen, [125], [165]-7;
alchemists, [194];
Apuleius, [222], [232]-40;
Apollonius of Tyana, [246];
the emperor Julian, [318];
Jews, [337], [436]-9;
Christ and Christians, [337], [383], [395]-6, [415], [424], [433], [436]-9, [463], [465], [505];
pagans, [415];
philosophers, [416];
heretics, [415], [424];
Origen, [461];
Priscillian, [380]-1, [519]-20;
Libanius, [538];
Bede, [635];
Gerbert, [704]-5;
Constantinus Africanus, [744], [755];
Dunstan, [773]
Achilles, ghost of, [264];
master of, [597]
Aconite, [74], [171]
Acorn, [740]
Acoustics, [185]
Acron, [56]
Adalbert, bishop of Bremen, [773]
Adam, first man, [681]
Adamant, [81], [294], [636];
swords of, [253], [258];
breakable by goat’s blood, [56], [85], [511], [588], [779];
by lead, [657]
Adder, [279], [721]
Adonai, [365], [367], [451], [583], [726]
Adrianaion, [434]
Adultery, discovery of, [364], [644]
Advertising, [186]
Aeetes, [329]
Aegina, [86], [301]
Aelian, a consul, [262]
Aemilianus, [224]
Aeon, [363]-4, [378], [383], [411]
Aerimancy or Aeromancy, [344], [629]
Aesculapius, shrine of, [283], [329], [379];
and see other index
Aetites, a gem, [257], [329], [330], [581], [777]
Affroselinum, [765]
Agate, [294], [721]
Agathodaemon, [173], [292], [379], [587], [661];
and see other index
Aglaides, [431]
Aglaonice, [203]
Agnus castus, an herb, [756]
Agnus Dei, [737]
Agricultural magic, [21], [70], [79]-80, [93]-4, [216], [219], [294], [604]-5, [626]
Ague, [536]
Air, importance of pure, [142], [151];
pressure of, [188];
experiments with, [190]-2;
and continuity of universe, [206];
star in, [478]
Albicerius, [518]
Alchemy, Egyptian, [12]-3;
Greek, [59], [131], [193]-200, [320], [544]-5, [764];
Pliny, [81], [193];
Arabic and Latin, chap. xxxiii, [368], [398], [649], [663]-4, [669]-70, [697], [757], [773]
Alcmaeon, [324]
Alcohol, [468], [765]
Alcoholism, [253]
Alexander the Great, chap. xxiv, [186], [496], [602];
and see other index
Alexander of Abonutichus, [277]-8
Alexander V, pope, [106]
Alexandria, as a center of ancient learning, [27], [39], [48], [105], [109], [123], [145], [187], [224], [291], [318], [348], [449], [541], [552], [763];
dissection at, [147];
measures of, [144];
relations with India, [245];
in the
pseudo-Clementine Homilies, [404], [408]
Alexandrina, golden, [739]
Alexandrinus Olympius, [300]
Alive, taken from, [580], [591];
burned, see Crab
Allectory, a gem, [779]
Allegory and allegorical interpretation, in alchemy, [195]-8;
of the Bible, [350], [479], [484], [633];
in zoology, [396], [500], [502];
miscellaneous, [545], [626];
and see Symbolism
Almanac, [318]
Almond, [78]
Aloaeus, see Eloeus
Alphabet in magic and divination, [197], [370], [380], [592], [664], [711];
and see Vowel
Alphabetical order, [166], [176], [606], [610]
Alpheus, river, [102]
Altar, [80], [239], [295], [378]
Alum, [765]
Amazons, [114], [564], [603]
Ambassador, see Embassy
Amber, [49], [213]
American Indians, [16]-17
Amiantus, a gem, [81], [213]
Ammon, the god, [546], [553], [561]-2
Ammon (or, Hammon), King of Egypt, [291]
Ammonia, [571]
Amnael, an angel, [195]
Amor aquae, [764]
Amulet, Egyptian, [10];
in Pliny, [70], [77], [81], [85], [87], [89], [92];
in Galen, [166], [172]-3, [176];
in Plutarch, [204], [294];
Gnostic, [380];
Aristotle represented as an adept in, [563];
post-classical and early medieval medicine, [572], [580], [755];
Arabic, [655]-6;
and see Ligatures and suspensions
Amusements, ancient, [137], [486]
Anaesthetics, [142], [626]
Anastasius, Pope, [461]
Anatomy, of Galen, [145]-51;
Empirics hostile to, [157];
of Rasis, [668]
Andrew, St., legend of, [435]
Andronicus, the prefect, [542]
Anemone, [65]
Angel, see Spirit
Angitia, [329]
Anglo-Saxon, manuscripts, chap. xxix, [597], [612]-3;
medicine, chap. xxxi
Angobatae, [188]
Animal, incapable of magic, [4];
in early Greek religion, [23];
habits, intelligence, jealousy, and remedies employed by, [26], [57], [73]-5, [217]-8, [254], chap. xii, [460], [490], [574], [626];
use of parts of, [11], [20], [67]-70, [75]-6, [87], [133], [167], [229], [587], [606], [721], [740], [755], [766];
living in fire, [240];
sacred, [311];
minute, [275];
in art, [502];
breeding and horoscopes of, [516];
and see Abstinence from animal food, Gods, Language, Sculpture, Transformation, and the names of individual animals
Anise, [229]
Annacus, king, [340]
Annunciation, [263]
Anonymity, [133], [728]
Ant, [71]-2, [75], [81], [98], [329], [331];
Indian, [636]
Anthemius of Tralles, [575]
Anthropology, [300]
Anthropos, Gnostic, [380]
Antichrist, [417]
Antidote, [130], [154], [253], [441], [494]
Antimony, [735]
Antioch, [254], [296], [404], [421], [428], [431], [472], [662], [747]
Antipathy, [84], [173], [213], [217], [219], [239], [581], [605]
Antiphon, an interpreter of omens, [562]
Antipodes, [219], [480]-1
Antiscia, [537]
Anubion, [420]
Ape, [148], [256];
and see Cynocephalus
Apelles the painter, [55]
Apollo, [23], [93], [212], [253], [294], [317], [326], [371], [429], [735]
Apollobeches, [58]
Apollonius of Tyana, chap. viii, [165], [244], [288], [295], [390], [435], [465]
Apoplexy, [536]
Apothecary, [84], [129]
Apparatus, magical, [28], [190];
and see Magic, materials
Apparition, [66], [68], [204], [208], [215], [437]-8, [455], [496], [509]-10, [779];
and see Spirit
Appion, [419]-20;
and see Apion in other index
Appius, friend of Cicero, [270]
Applied science, ancient, chap. v, [408];
early medieval, chap. xxxiii
Aquila, disciple of Peter, chap. xvii
Aquileia, [124]
Arab, Arabia, and Arabic, early poetry, [6];
drugs and spices from, [84], [129], [765];
Apollonius of Tyana in, [261], [295];
magic of, [280];
home of the Magi, [476];
learning, [31], [159], [174], [189], [578], chaps. xxviii, xxx, xxxii;
and see Middle Ages, Translations
Arcadia, [214], [249], [283]
Archiater, [125], [161], [536]
Architecture, [122], chap. v
Archon, see Spirit
Arcturus, [331], [636]
Arena, [133], [147];
and see Gladiator
Areobindus, a consul, [607]
Arethusa, [102]
Argemon, an herb, [79]
Ariolus, [629]
Aristochia, an herb, [615]
Arithmetic, [126], [319], [619], [628], [704]
Armenian, [351], [374], [497], [554]
Arms and armor, [344]
Aromatics, [311];
and see Spice, Unguent
Arrow, extracted, [756];
poisoned, [767]
Art and the Arts, magic and, [6], [28];
standards of, [187], [407];
early medieval, chap. xxxiii;
and see Artisan and the names of various arts
Artemis Tauropolos, [429]
Artemisia, [89]
Artery, [147]
Artisan, [482], [486]
Aruspex, see Haruspex
Asbestos, [213]-4, [434]
Ascension, of Romulus, [274];
of Simon Magus, [422]
Ascetic, see Monasticism
Asclepius, a god, [253], [277], [546], [735];
and see other index
Ash, tree, [86]
Ashes, reduced to, [68], [80], [91], [170], [571]-4, [581], [586]-8, [590], [721]
Ashthroat, an herb, [722]
Asp, [57], [85], [324], [494], [571], [580], [587], [626]
Asparagus, [599]
Asphalt, [132], [574]
Asphodel, [88]
Ass, [76], [88], [230], [275], [326], [367], [734], [740]
Assurbanipal, [15], [27]
Assyria, magic of, [11], [15]-20, [58], [295], [629];
bibliography, [33]-5
Astanphaeus, [365], [367]
Asthma, [76]
Astral theology, [15], [17], [360]-1;
and see Astrology, Star
Astrolabe, [115], [501], [542], [559], chap. xxx, [728]
Astrological medicine, [179], [575], [633], [738]
Astrology, chaps, iii, ix, xi, xv, xxix, xxx;
also, Egyptian, [13]-4;
Sumerian or Chaldean, [15]-7,
and see Chaldean;
Greek, [22], [25]-6;
Pliny, [91], [94]-7;
popular Roman, [127], [285];
Galen, [127], [166], [178];
Greek philosophy and, [180]-1;
Vitruvius, [184]-5, [187];
Hero, [193];
alchemy and, [197];
Plutarch, [207], [209];
Apuleius, [231], [239]-40;
Brahmans, [253];
Lucian, [282]-3;
Nechepso, Petosiris, and Manetho, [292]-3;
Solinus, [330];
Horapollo, [333];
Hermes, [290]-2;
Enoch, [340]-1;
Philo Judaeus and Jewish, [353]-6;
Pseudo-Clement, [410]-3;
church fathers, [444], [455]-8, [464], [466], [471]-5, [492];
Augustine, [513]-21;
Firmicus, [529]-38;
Pseudo-Quintilian, [540];
Synesius, [543];
Nectanebus, [560]-3;
Alexander of Tralles, [583];
Herbarium of Apuleius, [598];
Geoponica, [604]-5;
Boethius, [621]-2;
Isidore, [632]-3;
Arabic, [644]-52, [661]-6, [670];
Salernitan, [738];
Constantinus Africanus, [756];
Marbod, [781]-2;
alchemy and, [763];
magic and, [300], [432], [464], [538], [540];
and see Christ, birth of; Image; Magi; Planet; Star
Astronomy, of Egypt, [13], [542], [545], [559];
Tigris-Euphrates, [15]-6, [34];
India, [31];
Greek, [31]-2;
benefits of, [47], [96];
of Ptolemy, [105], [107];
and architecture, [122], [185];
history of, [366], [707];
miscellaneous, [219], [395], [520], [536], [663], [704]
Atavism, [141]
Atheism, [234]
Athens, [28], [95], [142], [217], [230], [249], [429];
as center of learning, [135], [200], [222], [242], [269], [277], [538], [541], [602]
Athlete, [186], [248], [486]
Atlas, Mt., [54]
Atom, Atomic theory, Atomism, [140], [169], [178], [205], [408]
Attalus, king of Pergamum, [135], [171]
Attalus III, [236]
Augury, in Assyria, [17];
Rome, [95];
Seneca, [103];
Galen, [171];
denied
by Atomists, [178];
accepted by Stoics, [180];
Neo-Platonists, [315];
Jews and early Christians on, [352], [458]-9, [466], [511], [513], [534], [630];
miscellaneous, [560], [629], [673], [705]
Auspices, [430], [629]
Authority and Authorities, attitude to, citation by, Pliny, [46], [49], [75];
Ptolemy, [107];
Galen, [118], [152]-8, [167];
Vitruvius, [186]-7;
Zosimus, [198];
bogus, [215];
Cicero, [270];
Solinus, [327]-8;
Hippolytus, [469];
Firmicus, [537];
Aëtius, [570];
Marcellus, [585]-6;
medieval freedom with, [611];
Macer, [614];
Isidore, [624]-5;
Petrocellus, [734];
miscellaneous, [32], [215], [778]
Automaton, [188], [192], [230], [440]
Axle-grease, [92]
Baal, priest of, [386]
Babel, [453]
Babylon and Babylonia, [11], [14]-21, [23]-4, [31], [33]-5, [95], [97], [227], [239], [247]-8, [266], [283], [360]-1, [376], [383]-4, [414], [527], [537], [652], [661], [744]
Bagdad, [661]-2, [667], [744], [762]
Balaam, prophet or magician? [267], [352]-3, [385], [445]-8, [459];
and the Magi, [385], [444], [474], [479], [519]
Balach or Balak, [447]
Baldness, [536]
Balis, an herb, [75]
Balsam, [392], [738]
Baptism, [368], [373], [405], [408], [432]
Barbarians, [148], [376], [445], [449], [619], [638]
Barbarossa, see Frederick I
Barber, [229]
Barcelona, [699]
Barefoot, [599]
Barley, [88];
water, [143]
Baroptenus, a gem, [81]
Barrocus, an herb, [615]
Basilica at Fano, [187]
Basilides, the heretic, [372]
Basilisk, [67], [70], [75], [169], [494], [573], [603], [626], [636];
and cock, [324], [771]
Basilius the magician, [639]
Basin, [560]
Bat, [68]-9, [159], [331], [587]
Bath, [142]-3, [281], [587], [676], [729];
public, [140], [295], [434]-5;
sea, [231]-2, [405]
Battle predicted, [275]
Bayeux Tapestry, [502], [675]
Bean, [591]
Bear, [75], [92], [219], [367], [490];
licks
cubs into shape, [168], [177], [331];
constellation of the, [179]
Beard, [416]
Beast, name of the, [582]
Beasts, wild, [216], [229], [564], [669];
dealers in, [133]
Beauty, [300], [486]
Beaver, [502], [636];
castration of, [231], [332], [574]
Bed-bug, [68], [85], [89], [175]
Bee, [76], [85], [219], [615], [636], [721];
and see Honey
Beech tree, [213]
Beetle, [81], [219], [581]
Behbit el-Hagar, [559]
Behemoth, [346]-7, [367]
Bektanis, [559]
Bell, church, [722]
Bellerophon, [282]
Bell’s palsy, [738]
Belt, see Girdle
Bemarchius, rival of Libanius, [538]
Berenice, [463], [558]
Beryl, [780]
Bethlehem, star of, see Christ, birth of; Magi, who came to Christ child
Betony, [77], [86], [737]
Bibliography, of Pliny, [46], [215];
Isidore, [623];
Peter the Deacon, [746]
Bile, [171], [177]
Bird, [73], [78], [80], [201], [218], [236], [325], [460], [544];
rite of strangling, [301];
mechanical, [192], [266];
and see Augury and the names of individual birds
Birth-control, [94]
Birth-mark, [713]
Bishop, [542]
Bishopwort, [722]
Bitumen, [571], [574], [603]
Bituminous trefoil, [175]
Black, [68], [175], [582], [591]
Bladder, [536], [599], [769]
Bleeding, [75], [125], [141]-2, [162], [177], [576], [676], [679], [681], [684]-5, [688], [724], [728], [735], [737]-8
Blind, [536], [590]
Blood, miraculous, [231];
human, use of, [61], [102], [175], [227], [581], [603], [629], [721];
human, and the moon, [98], [146], [391];
circulation of, [409], [430];
of various animals used, [86]-7, [89], [131], [159], [166], [175], [587], [590], [727], [729], [737], [766]-7;
and see Adamant, Bleeding, Hemorrhage
Blotch, [640]
Boar, [69], [92], [580], [599]
Boëthus, [134]
Boil, [88]
Bones, stuck in throat, [71], [583];
number in body, [372];
prehistoric, [407];
use of, [573], [583], [656]
Book, trade in Roman empire, [134]-5;
magic, [432], [435], [472], [505], [705];
loss of, [752]
Bordeaux, [568]
Borellus, duke, [704]
Botany, [20], [65], [129], [343], [463];
and see Herb
Box, [229], [250]
Boy, in divination and magic, [81], [239], [249], [416]-9, [463];
and peony, [173]
Bracelet, [81], [89]
Brahmans, [248]-54, [258], [266], [376], [407], [410], [412], [450]-1, [556], [564]
Brain, center of nervous system, [145]-6;
cavities of, [659]-60, [735];
inflammation of, [536];
of various animals used, see names of individual animals
Bread, [89], [424];
blessing and breaking, [727]
Breastplate of high priest, [495]
Breath and breathing, [134], [146], [207], [658]
Brindisi, [764]
Britain and Briton, [59], [141], [206]-7, [376], [489]
Bronze, [764]
Buddha, [251]
Bugloss, viper’s, an herb, [722]
Buglossa, an herb, [615]
Bull, [79], [86], [168], [261], [367], [599], [765]-6;
tamed by fig-tree, [77], [213], [332], [626]
Bulrush, [92]
Buprestis, [77], [494]
Burial, magic, [69]-70, [80], [88], [662], [666];
alive, [421]
Burned to death, [433], [571], [639]
Business, [97], [107], [128], [248], [666];
early Christian attitude to, [494]
Butter, [154], [721]-2
Byzantine, [189], [194]-5, [323], [398], [482], [555], [569], [607], [732], [745], [761]-2
Cabbage, [86], [175]
Cabbala, [7], [365]
Caesarea, [404]-6
Cairo, [8]
Calchas, [271]
Calculus, [536]
Calendar, [13]-4, [327], [345], [676], [686], [712]
Calf, [150], [571]
Caligula, emperor, [193], [349]
Caliph, [607], [653], [670], [745]
Camaleon, [600];
and see Chameleon
Camel, [396], [636]
Campus Martius, [424]-5
Canal, Isthmian, [262]
Candelabrum, [380]
Candle, magic, [87], [380], [385], [469]
Candlestick, seven-branched, [385], [676]
Cannibal, [61]-2, [573]
Canute, king, [351]
Carolingian, [616], [635]
Carpenter, [393]
Carpesium, a drug, [132]
Carpocrates, a heretic, [371]
Cart rut, [81], [88]-91, [721]
Carthage, [222], [269], [553], [744]
Carton, [129]
Carystus, [213]
Cask, [767]-8
Caspian Sea, [489]
Castoria, [739]
Cat, [68], [636]
Cataract, in eye, [175], [729]
Catarrh, [82], [88]-9, [142], [176]
Caterpillar, [80]
Cathedral, [501]-2, [761]
Catochites, a gem, [330]
Caul of an ox, [469]
Cauldron, [468]
Cauterization, [536], [723]
Cecrops, [415]
Cedar, [20]
Celidonius, see Swallow-stone
Celt and Celtic, [245], [567]-8, [722], [732]
Cemetery, [434]
Cenchrea, [136]
Centaur, [603];
and see Chiron in other index
Centipede, [76], [494], [587]
Cerberus, [280]
Ceremonial, Egypt, [10];
Assyria, [18], [20];
Pliny, [64], [69], [71], [77]-82, [90];
Apuleius, [230], [235];
Orphic, [295];
rite of strangling birds, [301];
Gnostic, [378];
Marcellus, [590]-2;
Arabic, [663];
medieval medicine, [726];
and see Herb, plucking of; Spirit, invocation of; etc.
Chalcite, [132]
Chaldean (mostly mere mentions of), [16]-7, [98], [102], [185], [201], [230], [239], [250], [253], [272]-4, [279], [281], [287], [316], [323], [353], [375]-6, [380], [399], [430],
444, [456], [469], [476], [479], [519], [560], [632], [703], [711], [744]
Chalkydri, [347]
Cham, see Ham
Chameleon, [62], [175], [581]
Chance, experience, [36], [75], [156], [172], [754];
and fate, [210]
Chaplet, [295]
Characters, magic use of, [229], [257], [314], [317], [512], [579], [592]-3, [604], [630], [645], [654], [724]-30
Charicles, [232]
Chariot, [423]
Charlatan, [668]-9;
and see Old-wives
Charlemagne, [214], [556], [672], [764]
Charon, [277]
Chastisements, [204]
Chastity, [78], [81], [83], [204], [216], [295], [308], [326], [564], [581], [588], [590], [599], [799]-80;
and see Virgin
Cheese, [142], [325], [509]
Chelidonia and Chelidonius, see Swallow-wort and Swallow-stone
Chelonitis, a gem, [780]
Chemical and Chemistry, [132]-40, [467]-9;
and see Alchemy
Chick, [76], [754], [771];
Aristotle on embryology of, [30], [146]
Chickpea, [88]
Child-bearing and Child-birth, [76], [78], [84], [87], [92], [94], [102], [175], [177], [216], [253], [260], [295], [325], [496], [581], [685], [713], [726], [738], [740];
formation of child in womb, [150], [545], [557], [757];
child born after eight months dies, [181], [356], [757];
monstrous birth, [627];
and see Abortion, Birth-control
Chimaera, [367]
China and Chinese, [6]-7, [214];
and see Seres
Chiromancy, [386]
Chneph or Chnuphis, [379]
Chrism, [738]
Christ, [137]-9, [243], [363], [379], [386], [404]-5, [422], [510], [527], [529], [620], [674]-5, [782];
accused of magic, see Accusation;
birth of, and astrology, [386], [438], [457], [464], [471]-9, [703];
birth, virgin, [460];
child, chap. xvi, [390];
power of name of, [434], [452], [466], [638]-9, [725], [729]-30
Christian and Christianity, Book II, passim; [137], [139], [207], [275]-6, [285], [296], [298], [306], [312], [320], [327], [554], [568], [584], [602], chap. xxvii,
642, [715];
and see Religion, Theology
Christmas, [678]
Chronology, [135], [209], [624], [711];
and see Calendar
Church fathers, Book II, passim, [180], [225], [241], [302], [618]
Cicada, [169]
Cinaedia, [590]
Cinnabar, [626], [761], [764]
Cinnamon, [129]-30, [256]
Circe, [21], [65], [324], [434], [509], [629]
Circle, magic, [78], [86]-7, [91], [197], [281], [366], [599];
squaring the, [706];
Cardan’s concentric, [769]
Circumcision, [449], [475], [781]
Circus, [295], [486]
City, fortune of, predicted, [273], [283];
ancient, [489], [504];
ideal, [349]-50, [460]
Civilization, magic and origin of, [5]-6;
Pliny as source for history of, [43]
Clairvoyance, [647];
and see Divination, natural
Clarus, [224]
Classical heritage, [555], [618], [636];
and see Middle Ages
Classics, superstition in, [21]-4
Claudia, [55]
Clay, animals, [393], [769];
and see Pottery
Climate, [184]
Cloak, virtue of, [397], [435]
Clock, see Time
Clothing, virtue in, [136], [295], [382], chap. xvi, [407], [441], [534], [598], [666];
and see names of various articles of
Clyster, [142]
Cock, [168], [175], [320], [324]-5, [766], [771], [779];
cock-crow, [280], [405]
Cog-wheel, [192]
Cold, quality, [140], [161], [219];
drink, [141];
disease, [589]
Colic, [87], [169], [579], [582], [590]
Cologne, three kings of, [446], [477]
Colonus, [638]
Colony, Greek, [318]
Color, discussed, [140], [486];
changing, [216];
in magic, [90], [367], [369], [590], [721];
and see the names of individual colors
Combustible compounds, see Candle
Comedy, Greek, [22]-4
Comet, [96], [115], [457], [543], [633], [635], [673]
Commodus, emperor, [125], [129]
Compass, points of, [91], [114], [378], [586], [591], [724]
Compotus or Computus, [536], [676]-7, [728]
Compound, magical or medicinal, [10], [83], [140], [152], [159]-60, [172], [571], [586]-7, [722], [734]
Conception, [562], [656], [724], [740]
Condrion, an herb, [74]
Confederate, in magic fraud, [467]
Conjunction, astrological, [104], [642], [648]-9
Conjuration of an herb, [583];
and see Incantation, Spirit, invocation of
Consecration, of a painted grape, [80];
of gems, [295], [781];
and see Holy
Constantine the Great, [525]ff.
Constantine Monomachos, [745]
Constantine Porphyrygennetos, [604]
Constantius, emperor, [525]ff.
Constans, emperor, [525]ff.
Constantinople, [472], [477], [494], [533], [541];
and see Byzantine
Constellation, [14], [114], [178], [304], [709]
Constipation, [779]
Consumption, [213], [373], [536], [588]
Cook, [148]
Copernican theory, [32]
Copperas, [467]
Coptic, [361], [377]
Coral, [656]
Cordova, [704], [762]
Corinth, [123], [136], [230], [262], [280]
Corn extracted, [71]
Corpse, [147], [229], [309], [629], [780];
and see Necromancy, Resurrection
Cosmetics, [152], [668]
Cotton, [252]
Couch, [561]
Cough, [88], [176]
Counter-irritant, [723]
Cow, [77], [79], [81], [85], [325], [769]
Crab, and snake, [99];
river, use of eye of, [68]-9;
burned alive, [80], [178];
use of ash of, [170], [572];
stone in head of, [737]
Crane, sentinel, [217];
windpipe of, used in magic, [278], [467]
Craw-fish, [217]
Creation, [16], [346], [408], chap. xxi, [504]-5, [627]-8;
position of stars at, [711], [713]
Credulity and scepticism, chap. ix;
in Pliny, [50]-1, [61]-4, [67], [70], [77], [80]-1, [88], [98];
Galen and the Empirics, [157]-8, [168]-9, [175];
Seneca,
102-3;
Plutarch, [204], [212]-3;
other cases, [225], [244], [255], [388], [440], [491]-2, [539], [573]-4, [626], [637], [655], [671], [780]
Crete, [129], [135], [249], [260]
Cricket, [67], [737]
Crime and criminal, [147], [167], [171], [207], [225], [581];
and see Magic, evil and criminal; Sin
Critical days, [158], [161], [164], [179]-80, [356], [756]
Crocodile, [74], [166], [218], [238], [280]
Cropleek, [722]
Cross, nail from, [280];
in sky, [475];
sign of, [432], [434], [466], [638]-9, [722]
Crow, [207], [314], [324], [409], [636], [655]
Cruelty, [136], [225]
Crystal, [294], [767]
Cube, [184]
Cuckoo, [81]
Cummin seed, [93]
Cuneiform, [15]
Cup, Joseph’s divining, [386]
Cupping glass, [192]
Curlew, [217]
Curse, [28], [93], [366], [434]
Cynics, [277]
Cynocephalia, an herb, [67]
Cynocephalus, [70], [333]
Cyprus, magic of, [59];
oil of, [68];
Galen’s visit to, [131]-2
Cyrene, [541]
Dacian, [597]
Daedalus, [283]
Daily life, magic in, [9]-10, [20];
experience from, [54]
Danish, [612]
Dardanus, a magician, [58]-9, [463], [558]
Darius, [256], [260]
“Dark Ages,” [618]
Date, the fruit, [20]
Date, discussed of, Ptolemy, [105];
Hero, [188];
Greek alchemists, [193]-4;
works of Apuleius, [222]-5;
Solinus, [326]-7;
Horapollo, [331];
Enoch literature, [341]-2;
apocryphal Gospels, [388]-9;
Pseudo-Clementines, [404]-6;
Physiologus, [497]-9;
Augustine, [504];
Mathesis of Firmicus, [526]-7;
Synesius, [541];
Pseudo-Callisthenes and Julius Valerius, [552]-5;
Aëtius, [570];
Marcellus, [584]-5;
early medieval pseudo-literature, [594]-6;
Macer, [612]-3;
Thebit, [661];
introduction of Arabic alchemy, [773];
and see Calendar,
Chronology, Compotus, Creation, Easter
Day, observance of, lucky and unlucky, [14], [21], [106], [383], [513], [582], [588], [590], [592], [661], chap. xxix, [721], [725], [727], [754];
and see Critical; Egyptian; Moon, day of; Planetary week
Dead Sea, [138]
Deaf, [536]
Decans, [178], [291], [315], [376], [453]
Deendor, a magician, [780]
Deer, [68], [70], [74], [84], [94], [207], [294], [324], [586], [734]
Degree, academic, [619];
medical, [751]-2
Delirium, [536]
Delphic oracle, [201], [266], [283], [326], [538], [582]
Demeter, [429]
Demigod, [546]
Demiurge, [212], [383]
Demon, see Spirit
Dentistry, [12];
and see Tooth
Depilatories, see Hair
Deroldus, bishop, [733]
Desert, herbs in, [54]
Desiderius, abbot, [747]
Design, argument from, [139], [148], [408], [490]
Desire, as a factor in magic, [644]
Deucalion, [341]
Devotio, see Curse
Dew, [102]
Diacastoria, [739]
Diadochos, a gem, [780]
Diagram, [366]-7, [674]
Dialectic, [420], [439], [536]
Diana, [130]
Dice, [136], [486]
Dick, Mr., [64]
Dictamnon, see Dittany
Dictation, ancient, [45], [134]
Dictionary, [599], [624]
Dictynna, [249]
Die, [582];
and see Dice
Diet, [98], [137], [142], [159], [282], [414], [429], [577], [587], [668], [684], [735]
Digestion, [137], [205], [585]
Dinocrates, [186]
Diocletian, emperor, [194]
Diomedes, [330]
Dionysius, an Egyptian, [440]
Dionysus, the god, [251], [546]
Dioptrics, [108]
Dipsas, a snake, [172], [284], [494]
Direction, observance of, in magic, [90]-1, [666];
and see Compass, Right, Left
Disease, [25], [98], [150], [208], [219], [310], [430], [434], [536];
magic transfer of, [19], [61], [71], [79], [213], [588]-9;
and see Spirit, Woman, and the names of individual diseases
Dissection, [88], [134], [146]-8, [164], [581], [746]
Dittany, [218], [495]
Dives and Lazarus, [448]
Divinatio, a disease, [755]; and see [150]-1
Divination, chaps. ix, xxix, [86], [127], [143], [165], [180], [253], [285], [533], [539]-40, [713];
varieties listed, [560];
in China, [6]-7;
Egypt, [13];
Tigris-Euphrates, [17];
India, [251];
relation to magic, [5], [14], [17], [60], [226], [233], [295], [432], [512], [543], [629];
by divine revelation, [205], [249], [314], [364], [533],
and see Prophecy;
by demons, [442]-3, [510], [546];
natural, [103], [205], [239], [305], [314], [318]-9, [419], [518], [542]-3;
by animals, [315], [325]-6, [490],
and see Augury;
by eating parts of animals, [70], [257], [314];
by boys, [249], [418]-9, [463];
by enthusiasm, [180];
by herbs, [66], [77], [614];
by drinking or inhaling, [313];
by Kalends, [677], [684];
by lots, numbers, names, [112], [679], [682], [711], [713],
and see Lot-casting;
by polished surfaces, [774];
by sounds, [313], [430];
by stones, [70];
by symbols, [166];
by winds, [676], [678];
and see Aerimancy, Cup, Dream, Geomancy, Haruspex, Hydromancy, Knot, Liver, Moon, Omen, Pyromancy, Sacrifice, Sieve, Selenomancy, Thunder
Dog, kennel, [69];
jealous, [75];
puppyhood, [150];
omens from, [231];
prescience of, [325];
as symbol, [367];
demons as, [435];
and mandragora, [607];
torn to pieces by, [277], [425];
to stop bark or attack of, [77], [216], [249], [424], [605];
disease transferred to, [88], [590]-1;
use of parts of, [68], [70], [89], [90], [159], [168]-9, [573]-4, [737], [755];
mad, and bite of, [68], [82], [86], [131], [169], [178], [259], [263]-4, [284], [373], [391], [572], [656], [713], [754]
Dog-days, [572], [728], [756], [765]
Dogmatism, [154], [159], [735]
Dog-star, [66], [98], [178], [604]
Dolphin, [55], [218], [260]
Domitian, emperor, [249]-50, [259]-65
Door, used in magic, [71], [591];
affected by magic, [226]-7, [314], [449];
trap, [469]
Dorians, [219]
Dositheus, [365], [417]
Dove, [142], [168], [324], [332], [636], [740]
Draconites, a gem, [75]
Dragon, [75], [231], [257], [326], [367], [392], [429], [561], [603], [766];
use of parts of, [68], [70];
combat with elephant, [74], [257], [626];
flying, [347]
Dragontes, an herb, [614]
Drama, and magic, [22]-3, [324];
liturgical, [476]-7
Dream and divination from, in Egypt, [13]-4;
in cuneiform texts, [17];
Pliny, [56], [81];
Galen, [123], [154], [156], [166], [170], [177]-80;
Plutarch, [204], [205];
Apuleius, [231];
Apollonius, [260];
Lucian, [283];
Neo-Platonists, [314], [545];
Philo, [354], [358];
Pilate’s wife, [395];
Origen, [459];
Nectanebus, [560]-2;
Alkindi, [646];
miscellaneous, [197], [329], [412], [434], [437], [459], [463], [487], [509], [534], [627], [671], [680]-1, [720], [754], [763], [779]
“Dream-senders,” [368]
Dropsy, [69], [213], [536], [779]
Drugs, [55], [61], [84], [89], [128], [132], [370], [467], [561], [668]
Druid, [46], [59], [67], [79], [640]
Drum, [204], [313]
Dualism, [361], [409]
Duck, [87]-8
Dung, [68], [69], [86], [166], [168], [588], [656], [734], [740], [769]
Dye, [324], [467], chap. xxxiii
Ea, a god, [18]
Eagle, [87], [90], [176], [217], [257], [325]-6, [332], [441], [496], [574], [636]
Ear, [536]
Earache, [169], [579], [755]
Ear-wax, [721], [769]
Earth, appeased, conjured, personified, and deified, [66], [79], [86], [251], [295], [583], [598];
virtue of, [81], [88], [592], and see Cart rut, Terra sigillata;
things not allowed to touch the ground, [70], [79], [81], [173], [582], [588];
sphericity of, [480];
miscellaneous, [211], [373];
and see Burial, Land and Water, Underground
Earthquake, [97], [101], [250], [254], [264], [271], [430], [469], [562]
Earthworm, [68]-9, [89], [176], [573]-4, [587], [720]
Easter, [521], [677];
mystery of, [677]
Ebionites, [405]
Ebony, [560]
Echeneis, [212], [491], [626]
Eclipse, [96], [98], [203]-4, [209], [262], [333], [386], [564], [673]
Editions, especially early printed, Pliny, [53];
Ptolemy, [106], [110];
Galen, [119];
Solinus, [326];
Firmicus, [525];
Pseudo-Callisthenes and Julius Valerius, [551]-2;
Letter of Alexander, [555];
post-classical medicine, [566]-7, [577];
Herbarium of Apuleius, [597];
Ethicus, [601];
Geoponica, [604];
Dioscorides, [606]-10;
Macer, [612];
Isidore, [623];
Latin translations from Arabic, [642], [649]ff., [653], [657], [665], [668], [716];
Regimen Salernitanum, [736];
Constantinus Africanus, chap. xxxii;
treatises on arts, [760];
Marbod, [775], [778]
Education, as experienced or discussed by, Galen, [118]-28;
Vitruvius, [187];
Plutarch, [200]-1;
Apuleius, [222]-4;
Lucian, [277];
Christ child, [394];
Cyprian, [429]-31;
Firmicus, [525];
Synesius, [540]-1;
Bede, [634]-5;
Rasis, [667];
Gerbert, [704];
Constantinus, [744];
Dunstan, [773];
Marbod, [775]
Eel, [491]
Egg, shell, [54];
test of freshness, [55];
made by hiss of snakes, [67];
addled by certain men, [83];
so-called, of alchemy, [198];
goose, [277];
filled with dye, [467];
portents from, [562], [773];
raw, [729]
Egypt, [7]-14, [27]-8, [30]-1, [193]-5, [198], [206], [228]-30, [239], [248], [250], [287], [289], [300], [325], [331]-4, [360], [376], [379], [391], [414]-6, [430], [437]-8, [446], [450], [452], [459], [503], [527], [537], [543], [558]-60, [598], [744];
and see Plagues of
Egyptian Days, [14], chap. xxix, [728]
Elchasaites, [373]
Elections, astrological, [372]-3, [386], [517]
Electrum, [590]
Elements, various theories of, [25], [139], [157], [218], [254], [382], [408], [410], [478], [485], [488], [528]-9, [622], [645], [720];
not found in a pure state, [140], [489]
Elephant, intelligence of, [73], [75], [169], [218], [256], [636];
habits, [213], [322], [324], [332], [460];
dissection of, [148];
compared with fly, [408];
white, [763];
and see Dragon for combat with
Elephantiasis, [57], [170], [572]
Eleusinian mysteries, [101], [148]
Elijah, [386], [555]
Elixir, [670]
Eloeus, [365], [367]
Eloi, [583]
Elymas the sorcerer, [461]
Elysian fields, [207]
Embalming, magic in, [8]
Embassy, of Philo, [349]; Synesius, [541];
Leo, [557]
Embryology, see Chick, Child-birth
Emerald, [434], [656], [772]
Emperor, Roman, [47], [50], [124], [129]-30, [135], [176], [186], [194], [529];
and see names of individual emperors
Empiric, Empirica, Empiricism, [56]-7, [155]-7, [172], [735], [754]
Empousa, [310]
Empyrean, see Heaven
Enceladus, [254]
Encyclopedia, ancient, [43];
Arabic, [663];
medieval, [52], [569]
Endor, witch of, [385], [448], [464], [469]-71, [506], [509]-10, [629], [635]
Entrails, see Intestines, Liver divination
Ephesus, [259]-62
Ephod, [448]
Epic, [16], [18]
Epicurean, [138], [150], [283], [408], [441]
Epidaurus, [329]
Epilepsy, [69], [87], [90], [173], [235], [238], [536], [578]-81, [614], [723], [726], [730], [735]-6, [754]-6, [779]
Epitome, [495], [554]-5, [568]-9, [594], [603]ff.
Er, vision of, [212]
Erataoth, a spirit, [367]
Eretrians, [260]
Eridu, [15]
Erigeron, an herb, [89]
Erystion, an herb, [598]
Essenes, [405]
Ether, [254], [373];
and see Heaven
Ethics, [602]
Ethiopia and Ethiopic, [141], [245], [256], [283], [327], [341], [345], [398], [435], [498], [554], [558]-60, [654], [658], [744]
Etruscan, [467], [630]
Etymology, [625]
Eucharist, [369]
Eucrates, [280]-1
Eugenianus, [133]
Eugenics, [414]
Eumeces, a gem, [81]
Euphrates, a philosopher, [246], [253], [263];
and see Tigris-
Eustachian tube, [576]
Evangelists, four, [502], [674], [721]
Eve, [350], [511], [681]
Evil, problem of, [305], [309], [349];
eye, see Fascination
Evolution, doctrine of, [149], [493]
Ewe hop plant, [722]
Excommunication, [542]
Excrement, human, [74], [143], [573];
and see Dung
Exercise, physical, [587]
Exorcism, [18], [24], [280], [299], [368], [386], [435], [533]-4, [682], [722]
Experience, Experiment, Experimental method, and magic, [57], [431]-2, [447], [469], [540];
in Pliny, [53]-7, [83], [88];
Ptolemy, [106]-7;
Galen, [118], [121], [144]-63, [169], [173], [175], [179];
Vitruvius, [187];
Hero, [190];
Greek alchemists, [198];
Plutarch, [213];
Apuleius, [237];
Simon Magus, [420]-2;
Firmicus, [532];
post-classical medicine, [569], [573], [578]-80, [583]-7;
Dioscorides, [606];
Macer, [615];
Arabic, [644]-6, [657], [669];
early medieval medicine, [734]-5, [738], [753]-4;
arts and alchemy, [762], [765]-70;
and see Empiric, Observation
Eye complaints and cures, [56], [82], [87], [98], [166], [175], [289], [325], [490], [496], [536], [586], [589]-90, [640], [670], [720], [755], [779];
evil, see Fascination
Eyebrow, [151], [159], [175]
Eyelash, [92], [151]
Facies, astrological, [710], [716]
Faith, requisite in magic, [644]
Falernian wine, [132], [586]
Familiar spirit, see Spirit
Family, [300]
Famine, [603]
Fascination, [71], [83], [217], [294], [324]
Fasting, [78], [82], [93], [174], [593], [705]
Fat, [67], [91], [130], [168], [755]
Fate, [181], [240], [306], [310], [315]-6, [353], [375], [620]
Fates, three, [210], [565]
Faust, Faustus, or Faustinianus, [404], [406], [413], [417]
Feather, [70], [236]
Fee, physician’s, [670], [684], [688], [740]
Fennel, [722];
tasted by snake, [74], [490], [626]
Fern, [80], [769]
Festival, [22], [107]
Fever, [18], [49], [65]-6, [71], [89], [91], [141], [536], [569], [575], [668], [720], [727], [759];
and see Quartan, Tertian
Fibula, [301]
Fifty, [356], [383]
Fig-tree, see Bull, tamed by
Figure, [709]-10;
human, [723];
and see Image, Mannikin, Statue
Fili, Irish, [640]
Finger, middle, [589], [592];
use of two, [583]
Fire, the element, [88], [229], [310], [417];
marvelous, [252], [256], [368];
at Rome in [192] A. D., [125], [134];
universal, [104];
not burned by, [416]
Fire engine, [192]
Firmament, see Heaven;
Waters above the
First-born, [581]
Fish, [30], [49], [74], [77], [218], [236]-7, [260], [325]-6, [469], [589], [636], [657], [756]
Five, [92], [169], [357], [383], [590]
Flea, [605]
Float, [192]
Flood, [16], [340], [475], [493]
Florilegia, [618]
Fluxion, [583]
Fly, insect, [76], [175], [408]
Flying, [397];
of Simon Magus, [416]-7, [422]-7
Foam, of snake, [67];
horse, [70], [86], [589]
Folk-lore, [300], [567], [587], [722]-3, [732]
Foot, [580];
and see Barefoot
Form, [487], [542]
Fossil shells, [493]
Fotis, [229]
Fountain, marvelous, [102], [318], [347], [546], [769]
Four, [91], [356], [674]-5, [728], [767]
Fox, [80], [89], [90], [168], [490]
Franklin, Benjamin, [414]
Frederick I, Barbarossa, emperor, [477]
Free-Masonry, [183]
Free will, see Will
Frenzy, [755]
Frog, [68], [80], [90], [92], [159], [168], [231], [491], [508], [588], [591], [656]
Fruit, [85], [142], [599], [724]
Fumigation, [69], [282], [512], [740], [779]
Funeral, [214]
Furnace, [81], [393], [434], [657], [764]
Future life, [8], [25], [47];
and see Soul, immortality of
Gabriel, angel, [343], [367], [447], [452], [454]
Gagates, a gem, [154], [495], [724], [779]
Gaia Seia, [599]
Galactis, [294]
Galactites, [329]
Gall, [68], [71], [587], [726], [764]-6
Gall nut, [467]
Games, Greek national, [186], [201]
Ganges, [258]
Garamantica, a gem, [97]
Garlic, [213], [722]
Gas, [55], [142]
Gate, city, [591], [600]
Gaudentius, [404]
Gaul, [46], [76], [92], [568], [597], [672], [776];
and see Druid
Gazelle, [68], [70], [87]
Gehenna, [367]
Gem, Assyrian, [20];
Pliny, [68], [70]-1, [80]-1;
Apollonius, [254]-8;
Orphic, [293]-6;
Gnostic, [27], [378]-80;
Pseudo-Plutarch, [216];
Solinus,328-9;
St. John and, [398];
Origen, [460];
Epiphanius, [495]-6;
Augustine, [511];
in medicine, [590];
Pseudo-Dioscorides, [611], [654];
Geoponica, [605];
Isidore, [626]-7;
found in animals, [75], [294], [603], [737], [740], [755], [772], [779];
Marbod, chap, xxxiv;
and see Consecration;
Image, engraved on;
and names of individual gems
Genealogical table, [624]
Generation, spontaneous, [86], [219], [238], [324], [509], [511];
of various animals, [408]-9, [460];
in fire, [102], [324];
human, [211];
and corruption, [210];
ruled by stars, [97];
organs of, used in magic, [11], [68]-9, [356];
and see Child-birth, Conception, Eugenics, Private parts
Genethlialogy, [115], [273], [353], [412], [456], [513], [517], [560], [622], [629], [703], [708], [781]
Genius, see Spirit, orders of
Gentiles, [479], [674], [771]
Geocentric theory, [32], [105], [488]
Geography, discussed by Pliny, [43]-4;
Ptolemy, [105]-7;
Philostratus, [244];
Solinus, [327];
other ancient, [488];
Ethicus, [600]-4;
other medieval, [707]
Geology, [493]
Geomancy, [314], [343], [629], [648], [685]
Geometry, [122]-3, [126], [185], [318], [536], [542], [619], [663], [70]
Gerard, archbishop of York, [689], [782]
Germ of disease, [219]
German, invaders, [148], [351];
language, [498], [728];
scholarship, [15]-6, [30]-1, [350], [684]
Germany, [45], [557]
Ghost, [233], [263], [280], [455], [540], [705];
and see Necromancy;
Endor, witch of
Giant, [254], [407], [430]
Girdle or ungirded, [69], [87], [284], [512], [599]
Girl, magic power of, [216];
and see Virgin
Githrife, an herb, [722]
Gladiator, [124], [149], [581], [673]
Glass, Egyptian, [12];
Roman, [590], [762];
medieval, [729], [764]-7;
gems of, [781];
and see Stained
Glaucon, [143], [161]
Glossopetra, a gem, [98]
Glue, [765]
Gnostic and Gnosticism, chap. xv, [197], [211], [290], [298], [305], [360], [397], [405], [411], [472], [547], [584], [661], [720]
Goat, [69], [87], [130], [168], [213], [218], [256], [325], [367], [467], [490], [581]-2, [729], [755], [759], [765]-9;
and see Adamant and blood of
Goblet, [258]
God and gods, antiquity of belief in, [5]-6, [203];
animal, [14], [283], [503];
celestial, [14], [17], [25]-6, [289], [309], [530];
and nature, [409]; and man, [206], [208], [254], [274], [416];
and Roman emperors, [130], [529];
and art, [486];
and magic, [8], [230], [235]-6, [249], [312], [320], [543];
Pliny concerning, [47], [97];
Seneca, [103];
Galen, [139], [151], [167], [180];
Plutarch, [210];
Gnostic, [362], [375];
Christian attitude to pagan, [317];
Firmicus, [527]-30;
Boethius, [621];
name of, [599];
winged, [301];
and see Apollo and other individual names of gods, Christ, First cause, Trinity, etc.
Goetia, [22], [247], [250], [505]
Gold, [69], [78]-81, [215], [257], [301], [325], [386], [590], [599], [739], [755]; chap. xxxiii;
and see Alchemy
Gonorrhoea, [536]
Goose, [168], [301]
Gorgon, [301]
Gothic art, [501]-2, [761]
Gout, [81], [142], [277], [284], [571], [575], [579]-81, [755]
Grafting, [55]
Grain, [325]
Grammar, [535], [596], [612], [625]
Grasshopper, [491]
Gravitation, [481]
Greece and Greek, magic, [20]-8, [58];
science, [28]-32, [46]-7, [51], [62], [64];
culture, [274], [283];
animals, [73];
language, ancient, [154], [186], [222]-3, [377], [420];
language, medieval, [331]-2, [625]
Greek church, [397], [735]
Greek fire, [256]-7
Griffin, [257], [325]
Grimoald, abbot, [613]
Groin, [71], [590]
Ground, see Earth, Underground
Gruel, [142]
Guadalquivir, [254]
Gull, [159]
Gum, [468]
Gyges, [257]
Gymnosophists, [247], [251], [260], [564]
Gynecology, see Women, diseases of
Hades, see Underworld
Hadrian, emperor, [136], [200], [244], [318]
Hail, see Weather
Hair, [69]-70, [81], [151], [159], [176], [581];
net, [175], [213];
tonic, [738]
Halcyon days, [255], [491]
Halicacabum, [77]
Hallucination, [509]
Ham, son of Noah, first magician, [414]
Hand, laying on of, [386];
and see Left, Right
Handkerchief, [213], [386]
Hangman’s noose, [71]
Hare, [159], [169], [253], [580]
Harewort, [722]
Harp, magic, [773]
Harran, [661]-2
Haruspex, [95], [104], [511], [513], [534], [629]
Hathor goddesses, [14]
Hatto, bishop of Vich, [704]
Hawk, [74], [314], [332], [561]
Hawkweed, [74], [332]
Hazel rod, [725]-6, [730]
Head, habit of inclining, [659];
magical speaking, [662], [705]
Headache, [18], [71], [92], [175], [591]
Hearsay, [585]
Heart, physiology of, [30], [146]-9, [153], [737];
used in medicine and magic, [70], [89], [727]
Heat and Hot, [140], [142], [161], [175]-6, [191];
and see Qualities
Heathen, see Pagan
Heatherberry, [722]
Heaven and Heavens, one or many? [16], [345], [363], [365], [372], [382], [459], [487]-8, [709];
empyrean, [484];
and see Music of spheres, Star, Universe, Waters above the firmament
Hebdomad, sacred, [16], [365], [380]
Hebrew, [554], [577]-8, [709], [711], [749];
and see Jew
Hecate, [215], [280]
Hedge, [91]
Hedge-hog, [325], [502], [734]
Hedgerife, [722]
Helen, Simon’s, [363]-5
Helena, empress, [477]
Helenus, seer, [294]
Heliocentric theory, [32], [97]
Heliotrope, an herb, [65], [87], [636]
Hell, see Underworld
Hellebore, [74], [490], [636]
Hellene and Hellenism, [20]-1, [245], [541]
Hellenistic, [16], [22], [30]-2, [39], [51], [183], [189], [288], [294]
Hemlock, the poison, [490]
Hemorrhage, [536], [576]
Hen, omen from, [231]
Henbane, [722]
Hera, goddess, [429]
Heracles, [251], [546], [582]
Heracleidae, [541]
Herb, Egyptian, [10];
Assyrian, [19]-20;
Greek, [23];
Cretan, [129];
sacred, [76], [178];
Anglo-Saxon, [722];
Pliny, [54]-7, [65]-7, [76]-9;
Galen, [154], [167];
Plutarch, [215]-6;
Apuleius, [229];
Orphic, [295]-6, [429]-30;
Gnostic, [371];
Nectanebus, [561], post-classical medicine, [583], [591];
Herbarium of Apuleius, [597]-9;
Pseudo-Dioscorides, [606];
Macer, [614]-5;
used by animals, [324]-5, and see Animals, remedies employed by;
conjuration of, [583];
plucking of, [57], [65], [93], [160], [173], [252], [291], [583], [614], [626], [721], [724], [727], [729]
Herbal, [596]-9
Herbalist, [79], [128]
Hercules, see Heracles
Heredity, [75], [253]; and see Atavism
Herefridus, [635]
Heresy, chap. xv, [488], [494], [507]-8
Hermesias, a compound, [84]
Hermogenes the magician, [435]
Hero, a kind of spirit, [180]-1, [309]-10, [469], [546]
Herod the king, [473], [479]
Heron, [218], [324]
Hind, [279], [721]
Hippomanes, [324]
Hippopotamus, [75], [169]
History and Historians, relation to this investigation, [201];
Roman, [14], [94], [96], [201], [602];
omens and portents in, [14], [675];
attitude to, of Empirics, [156];
Vitruvius, [185];
Lucian, [285]-6;
Cicero, [274];
Horapollo, [333]-4;
of medicine, [153], [156], [735];
of philosophy, [180];
of astronomy, [537], [707];
of alchemy, [195];
ages of, [383], [648], [675], [709];
astrological interpretation of, see Conjunctions, Planets, Magnus Annus;
quantitative method and source-analysis in, [533]ff.;
medieval attitude to, [617];
harlequins of, [359]
Holy Ghost or Spirit, [363]-4, [372], [397], [447]
Holy salt, [722], [727]
Holy wafer, [729]
Holy water, [434], [721], [724], [727], [735]
Honey, [66], [68], [70], [76], [129], [142], [229], [295], [599];
Attic and Hymettus, [132]
Honoratus, [638]
Hoopoe, [324]
Horaeus, [367]
Horn, [496], [586], [599], [722];
magic drinking, [191], [255]
Horoscope, [14], [115], [209], [315], [516], [532], [560], [630]
Horse, [55], [70], [86], [168], [589], [722], [730], [767];
and see Mare
Horus, [195]
Hour, observance of, [712], [714], [726]
House, astrological, [114], [397]
Household magic, [9], [69];
and see Door, Threshold, Wall, etc.
Human body, symmetry of, [184], [519];
eight parts of, [452], [720];
use of parts of, [61], [81], [167], [229], [573];
and see Blood; Sacrifice, human;
Saliva, Sweat, etc.
Humanism, [20], [338]
Humors, [536], [738]
Hyacinth, a gem, [496], [656]
Hydromancy, [233], [505], [629], [779]-80
Hydromel, [79]
Hydrophobia, [56], [169], [171], [496], [574];
and see Dog, mad
Hydroscope, [542]
Hydrostatic balance, [761]
Hyena, [67], [69]-70, [332], [396], [587], [605], [728]
Hymn, [18], [23], [317]-8, [374], [433], [441], [640]
Hypatia, [541]
Hyperborean, [280], [413]
Hyphasis, river, [256]
Hyrcanian Sea, [488]
Ialdabaoth, [367], [383]
Iao, Iaoth, etc., [367], [379]-80, [583]
Iarchas the Brahman, [251]ff.
Ichneumon, [74], [218], [575]
Idolatry, [421], [433], [452], [475], [603];
and see Image
Ikhnaton, [9]
Illuminated manuscripts, [498], [502], [547], [597], [676], [746]
Image, engraved and astrological, [173], [267], [292], [316], [443], [579], [582], [645]-6, [664]-6;
Apuleius’ wooden, [233];
Egyptian mannikins, [8];
sacrificial, [261];
mystic seal, [367], [378], [382];
of wax, [10], [19], [25], [560]-3;
other magic, [10], [19], [236], [280], [314], [344], [441], [769]
Imagination, power of, [644], [660]
Iman, doctrine of the hidden, [356]
Immortality, see Soul
Impotence, [391]
Incantation, antiquity of, [6];
Egyptian, [8], [12]-4;
Assyrian, [17]-9;
in Pliny, [69]-72, [79], [88], [92]-4;
Galen, [166], [173]-4;
Apuleius, [230], [233], [239];
other classical authors, [25], [253], [257], [279]-81, [314];
Gnostic, [299], chap. xv;
Jewish and early Christian, [352], [398], [418]-9, [437], [442]-3, [449]-50, [463], [492], [510], [512];
pseudo-literature and post-classical medicine, [537], [560]-1, [568], [573], [579]-83, [588]-93, [598]-9, [605];
Arabic, [654]-5;
early medieval, [596], [626]-9, [675], [696];
in medicine, chap. xxxi, [754], [759];
alchemy, [769]-70;
old Irish, [640];
and see Words, power of
Incense, [722]
Incest, [475], [754]
Incubus, [574]
India, chap. viii;
science of, [31];
drugs from, [84], [132];
home of Magi, [476]-7;
marvels of, [325]-6, [496], [564], [756];
occult science of, [652]-6, [710], [763];
miscellaneous, [503], [744]
Indigestion, [779]
Industry, and magic, [12], chap. xxxiii
Infant, exposure of, [147];
ailments, [69], [169], [615]
Ink, invisible, [467]
Innocent III, pope, [759]
Insanity, [216], [536], [585], [755], [779];
and see Frenzy, Lunacy, etc.
Insomnia, [90]
Instruments, scientific, [107], [751];
and see Musical
Intent, as a factor in magic, [644]-6
Interrogations, astrological, [713]-4
Intestines, [87]-8, [175], [409], [414], [592]
Inventions, [44], [149], [187]-9, [426], [604]
Invisible, to become, [71], [251], [416], [562], [638], [640];
writing, [265]
Invocation, see Necromancy and Spirit
Iris, [132]
Iron, magic use of, [66], [69]-71, [81], [89], [213], [765], [769];
taboo of, [78], [81], [92], [614];
oxide of, [130];
quenching hot, [713], [756]
Isaac the patriarch, [437]
Ishmaelite, [711]
Isis, goddess, [195], [223], [280], [300], [546], [559]
Island, floating, [102]
Ismuc, [183]
Israel, twelve tribes of, [495]
Istria, [601]-2
Itacius, bishop, [381]
Italian Renaissance, see Renaissance
Italians and Italy, [184], [557]
Iunx, [265]-7
Ivory, [301], [599]
Ivy, [767]-8
Jacob the patriarch, [354], [358], [444];
and Esau, [369], [479], [514]
Jambres, Jamnes, or Jannes, the magician, [59], [431], [461]
James, brother of Jesus, [392], [401], [403], [405]
James the Great, St., [434]-6
Jannes the magician, see Jambres
Jared, and magic, [415]
Jasper, [294], [572]
Jaundice, [49], [217], [536]
Jealousy, see Animal, and Professions, learned
Jeremiah, legend of, [399]
Jerusalem, [393], [399], [415], [423], [477]
Jesus, see Christ
Jew and Jewish, [219], [434], [436], [465], [474]-5, [583], [746], [762], [773], [781];
magic, [59], [437]-9, [449];
religion, [137];
tradition, [473]
Jewelry, [301];
and see Gem
John the Baptist, [364], [737]
John, duke of Campania, [557]
Jonathan, [471]
Joseph the patriarch, his coat of many colors, [352], [358];
divining cup, [386];
dream, [354], [358], [385]
Joseph, father of Jesus, [393]
Joseph, mentioned by Epiphanius, [434]
Judea, see Palestine
Judas Iscariot, [391]
Juggler, [230], [312]-3, [352], [437]
Juliana Anicia, [606]
Juno, goddess, [546]
Jupiter, planet, [97], [184]
Justina, [431]-3
Karnak, [559]
Khîrgeh, [559]
Kid, [393]
Kidney, [294]
King, prediction for, [17], [66];
to gain favor of, [19], [67], [71], [89], [294];
magic power of, [83], [476], [479];
and alchemy, [13], [195]
Kiss, [88], [391], [589]
Knife, [545], [722], [727];
surgical, [149]
Knot, in divination, [7];
other magic, [19], [25], [66], [69], [71], [592], [661]
Kruno, a star, [346]
Labartu, [18]
Laboratory, [228]
Lacedaemon, [429], [602]
Ladder, [368]
Laelius, [274]
Lamb, [561], [769]
Lamia, [263]
Lamp, [129], [380];
experiment with, [55];
inextinguishable, marvelous, etc., [192], [214], [231], [239];
and see Candle
Land and water on earth’s surface, [54], [105], [254], [488]
Language of birds and beasts, learning, [257], [261], [294]-5, [430]
Laodicea, unguent of, [133]
Lar, [80], [546]
Laser, a simple, [83]
Laurel, [229], [324], [332], [424], [571], [588]
Lavinian grove, [326]
Law, and magic, [2], [6], [95];
Roman, [167]-8, [224], [233]-4, [277], [527], [568];
of nature, [272], [350], [530]-1;
Mosaic, [395], [459];
national, [376];
early German, [593];
a medieval lawsuit, [688]
Lead, [657], [757], [764];
application of, [574], [590];
glazing, [762];
tablets, [28], [366], [724]
Leaves, falling, effect on dreams, [206]
Lebadea, [249]
Lectionary, [476]
Lecture-notes, [134]
Leech, [724]
Left, hand etc. used or preferred, [65]-6, [78], [82], [88], [90], [92], [173], [216], [231], [325], [332], [580], [583], [591]-2, [722], [726]
Legends of saints, chaps. xvi, xviii, [637];
and see names of individuals
Legislation, [2], [25], [59], [95], [126], [194], [293], [415], [505];
and see Law
Lentils, [369]
Lemnos, [130]-2, [154], [242], [264]
Lent, [678]
Leopard, [256]
Leprosy, [171], [219], [390], [392], [536]
Letter, see Alphabet, Vowel
Lettuce, [639]
Lever, [192]
Leviathan, [346]-7, [367]
Levitation, [251]-2, [394], [427]
Libanotis, an herb, [495]
Libation, [431]
Libraries, ancient, [15], [27], [125], [134]-5;
medieval, [617]-8, [743]
Ligatures and suspensions, [65], [68], [70]-2, [80], [89]-90, [94], [173], [175], [204], [279], [294], [572], [579], [591], [598], [611], [614], [654]-6, [726], [729]-30, [740], [755]-6, [759];
condemned, [512], [630]
Light, [191], [488], [720];
and see Radiation
Lightning, [71], [95], [102], [738]
Ligusticum, [613]
Like cures like, [68], [86], [94]
Lily, [68]
Linen, use of, [88], [90], [230], [249], [260], [378], [560], [581], [598]
Liniment, [586]
Lion, habits and traits, [74], [256], [319], [326], [332], [367], [394], [636];
roar of, [491];
use of parts of, [67], [70], [168], [279], [726], [755];
whelps of, [255], [491];
amours of lioness, [74];
figure of, [582];
made by magic, [215];
lion-faced, [364]
Liparaios, a gem, [295]
Litany, [721]
Liturgy, [398], [476]
Liver, disease, [536], [591];
divination, [17], [25], [249], [272], [313], [318], [430], [458], [466]
Lizard, [68], [92], [238], [324], [494], [574], [581], [589]-91
Logic, [154]-5, [157]-9;
magic, [10]-1, [72], [214]
Logos, doctrine of, [350]
Loigaire, king, [640]
Lollianus Avitus, [223]
Lollianus Mavortius, [525]ff., [537]
Longevity, [141], [170], [176], [207], [537]
Looking around, [591]
Loosing bonds, etc., [265], [416], [449], [779]
Lord’s Prayer, [598], [721], [724]-6, [729]-30, [736]
Lot-casting, [77], [112], [539], [727];
and see Geomancy and Sortes sanctorum (other index)
Lotapes, a magician, [59]
Lot’s wife, [583]
Love charms and potions, [22], [76], [94], [201], [215], [217], [236], [258], [295], [368], [370]
Lucifer, [636]
Lucius, hero of Golden Ass, chap. vii
Lucius Verus, emperor, [124]
Lucullus, [94], [201]
Lumbago, [90], [175]
Luna, goddess, [236], [417];
and see Helen, Simon’s
Lunacy, [536], [727], [754];
and see Insanity
Lung, [148], [536], [727]
Lupin, [722]
Lutheran, [447]
Lychnis and Lychnites, a gem, [257], [295]
Lycia, [154], [325], [765]
Lycurgus, [283]
Lynx, [81], [325], [620]
Lyre, [356]
Macedon, [278], [560]
Machine, [182], [187];
and see Mechanical
Maerotis, lake, [349]
Magi, in Pliny, [64]-72, [80], [84];
of Persia and the east, [228], [235]-6, [247], [250], [266], [295], [352], [416], [450], [763];
who came to the Christ child, [372], [396], [443]-4, [471]-9, [506], [518]-9, [730]
Magic (only leading passages where magic in general is discussed under that name are here included), preliminary definition, [4]-6;
primitive, [5]-6;
Egyptian,
7-12;
Babylonian and Assyrian, [15]-9, [33];
Greek and Roman, [20]-8;
Pliny, [44], [58]-64;
Plutarch, [203];
Apuleius, [234]-7;
Philostratus, [247]-50;
Neo-Platonists, [299]-300;
Enoch, [343];
Philo, [352];
heretics and Gnostics, [361];
church fathers, [414]-20, chap. xix, [466]-9, chap. xxii;
Nectanebus, [560];
Isidore, [628]-30;
Alkindi, [643]-6;
as an art or discipline, [312], [420], [443];
relation to science and medicine, [60]-64, [236], [312], [330], [432], [511], [534]-5, [644];
use of materials, [65]-70, [441], [508];
procedure, [68]-71, [506];
false and illusive, [61], [418], [423]-4, [431]-2, [440], [464]-8, [509];
evil and criminal, [61]-2, [313], [344], [377], [431]-2, [439], [505], [539], [543];
good or natural, [235], [352];
marvelous results, [66]-7, [70]-1, [506];
reality of, [506];
history of, [58]-9, [414]-5, [628]-9;
immunity from, [440], [448]-9
Magnet, [81], [85], [213], [469], [511], [581], [636], [644], [657], [668], [765], [780]
Magnus annus, [26], [180], [210], [333], [372], [384], [456], [543]
Majoram, [490]
Maleficium, [234]-5, [381], [506], [603], [629]
Mambres, a magician, [461]
Mana, [6]
Mandaeans, [383]-4, [450]
Mandragora, [22], [231], [258], [597], [607], [626], [740]
Manes, a kind of spirits, [546]
Manes or Mani, founder of Manicheism, and Manicheism, [381]-2, [398], [409], [513]
Mansions of moon or sun, [693], [713], [715]
Mantike, [259];
and see Divination
Manuscripts, of Pliny, [51]-2;
Ptolemy, [106], [108]-10;
Galen, [134]-5;
Gentile da Foligno, [164];
Greek alchemy, [194]-6;
Apuleius, [241];
Aelian, [322];
Solinus, [326]-8;
Hermes and Enoch, [291], [340];
Manichean, [383];
Apocrypha, [387]-9;
Recognitions, [401]ff.;
Basil and Ambrose, [484];
Physiologus, [498]ff.;
Firmicus, [532];
and Book III passim
Maps, [107], [114], [707]
Marble, [729]
Marcus Aurelius, emperor, [124]-5, [130], [148]
Marcus the heretic, [369]-70
Marcus of Memphis, [381]
Mare, [87], [324], [332], [511]
Marinus, duke of Campania, [557]
Market-place, magic of, [437], [440]
Marriage, [685], [688]
Mars, planet, [78], [97], [184]
Marsi, [172], [511]
Martin of Tours, St., [381]
Martyr and Martyrdom, [428], [433], [512], [555]
Mary Magdalene, [364]
Mary, Virgin, [390], [724]
Mass, sacrament of, [13], [722]
Mathematical method, [107]
Mathematics, [154], [535]-6
Mathematicus, [464], [513], [532], [534], [632], [717], [781]
Mathesis, [411], [632], [704]
Matter, [111], [199], [305], [309], [349], [487], [542], [643], [763]
Mavortius, see Lollianus
Maximilian II, emperor, [607]
Maximus, emperor, [381]
Meal, [314];
evening, [482]
Measles, [668]
Measurement, [144];
and see Instruments, Time
Meat offered to idols, [452]
Mecca, [337]
Mechanical devices and toys, [167], [426];
Applied Science; see Bird, mechanical; Machine
Mede and Medea, [21], [65], [215], [295], [324], [329], [780]
Medicine, chaps. iv, v, xxxi, xxxii, [289], [535]-6, [542];
Egypt, [10]-2;
Babylonian and Assyrian, [18];
and magic, [25], [70],
and see Magic;
Pliny, [72];
Greek, [318];
Apuleius, [221], [237];
Brahmans, [252]-3;
Lucian, [279], [284];
Solinus, [329];
church fathers and theologians, [460]-3, [593], [617];
and see Animal, remedies employed by; Astrological; Compound; Disease; History; Pharmacy; Poison; Simple; etc.
Medicine man, [5], [227]
Medinet Habu, [559]
Medium, [297], [467]
Medulla, [660]
Mela, see Taxo
Melancholy, [137], [536], [756]
Melanteria, [132]
Melothesia, [712]
Memory, [303], [660]
Memphis, [198], [430]
Menander the heretic, [368], [421]
Menippus, [263]
Menstrual fluid, [82], [369], [573]
Merchant, [214], [245], [710]
Mercury, god, [233], [236], [630],
and see Hermes;
metal, [764],
and see Quicksilver;
planet, [318], [383]
Meroë, a witch, [226]
Merovingian, [616], [672]
Mesraim, first magician, [414]
Messiah, [355], [383]
Messina, [445], [710]
Metal and Metallurgy, [44], [102], [198], [346], [463], [767];
and see Alchemy; Planets and; and the names of individual metals
Metamorphosis, see Transformation
Meteor, [103]
Meteorology, [44], [636]
Methodism, in medicine, [155], [735]
Michael, an angel, [367], [447], [452]
Michael, bishop of Tarazona, [652]
Microcosm, [382], [411], [530], [633], [709], [712]
Midday, see Noon
Middle Ages, influence in, of Pliny, [51]-3, [56], [73], [85], [595], [628], [635];
Seneca, [100];
Ptolemy, [109];
Galen, [161], [180], [572]-4;
Hero, [188];
De placitis philosophorum, [180];
Apollonius, [267];
Solinus, [326];
early Christian literature, [338];
Enoch, [340]-2;
Philo, [351];
Apocrypha, [389]-90;
Simon Magus, [427];
legends of saints, [435];
Basil, [484];
Physiologus, [497]ff.;
Augustine, [504];
Alexander legend, chap. xxiv;
post-classical medicine, [571], [576]-8, [584];
Ethicus, [601]-4;
Dioscorides, [606]-12;
Boethius, [618]-20;
Isidore, [623], [630]-1;
Arabic learning, [646], [663], chap. xxx, [732];
Constantinus Africanus, [743], [754];
Greek learning, [734];
and see Classical heritage; Greek, medieval; Textual history; Translation
Midnight, [248]
Milan, [477]
Mildew, [80]
Milesian tales, [225]
Milk, cow’s, [229], [295];
woman’s, [82], [175], [587], [729], [759], [763];
other, [721], [767]
Milk-stone, [294]
Milo, [779]
Milt, see Spleen
Mind, [210], [531], [654]
Mine and Mining, [132], [142], [344]
Mineralogy, [606]
Minerva, [79]
Minotaur, [603], [636]
Mint, wild, [57]
Miracle, [8], [327], [541], [637], [686];
distinguished from magic, [242], [265], [387]-8, [417], [437]-9, [465], [505];
by heretics, [507]-8
Mirror, [180], [236], [417], [468], [644];
and see Divination by polished surfaces, Optics
Missal, [759]
Misy, [132]
Mistletoe, [23], [79]
Mithra, [368], [429]
Mithrobarzanes, a magician, [281]
“Modern,” [717]
Mohammed and Mohammedan, [139], [337], [356], [445], Chap. xxviii, [688]
Mole, [63], [67], [70], [80]-1, [88], [409], [494], [587]
Monastery, Monasticism, and Monk, [505], [637]-9, [679]
Monkey, [148]
Monreale, [427]
Monster, [627]
Mont, temple of, [559]
Montaster, an herb, [598]
Monte Cassino, [597], [610], [743]ff.
Month, specified, [585], [588], [590], [676], [685]-9, [728], [737], [774];
and see Moon, observance of
Montpellier, [109], [741]
Monument, [565]
Moon, addressed, [727];
affected by magic, [203], [225], [280], [308], [468], [492];
controls generation and corruption, [210], [219], [354], [633], [708];
day of the, [79], [572], chap. xxix;
duration of, [180], [702];
and Easter, [521];
observance of, [69]-71, [78], [80], [90]-1, [98], [178], [216], [283], [322], [324], [333], [364], [539], [580], [582], [590]-2, [598]-9, chap. xxix, [720], [724], [729], [756], [780];
relation to other planets and to the signs, [179], [211];
spots on, [354];
size of, [488];
and see Bleeding, Luna, Selene, Tide
Moon-earth, [765]
Moon-god, [382]
Moon-stone, [250]
Moon-tree, [564]
Moralizing, [101], [490], [638]
Mortar, pounded in a, [82], [765]
Mortuary magic, [8]-9
Mosaic, [367], [427], [764]
Mosaic law, see Law
Moses, see other index
Mother, goddess or Great, [216], [360]
Mouse, [23], [80], [166], [175], [213], [325], [491], [587], [737];
field-, [98], [279];
shrew-, [76], [86], [88]
Mountain, marvelous, [346]-7;
magnetic, [756];
affected by magic, [226], [416]
Mule, [88], [183], [390], [589], [736]
Mullein, [490]
Muscle, [145], [150], [580]
Muses, [371]
Mushroom, [219]
Music, [319], [325], [534], [619], [744];
and magic, [6];
and medicine, [124];
and architecture, [185];
of the spheres, [26], [184], [193], [371], [487], [544], [622]
Mutton-fat, [722]
Mycenaean art, [301]
Myriogenesis, [537]
Myrmecia, a gem, [166]
Myrrh, [586], [765]
Mysia, [216]
Mysteries, [139], [216], [221], [223], [243], [245], [248], [317], [360]-1, [368], [377], [428]-9;
and see Eleusis, Mithra
Mysticism, [211], [254]-5, [677], [763]
Mythology, and magic, [8], [21];
and astrology, [16], [282]-3;
miscellaneous, [211], [215], [282], [294], [327], [407], [415]-6, [545]-6, [620]
Nail, metal, [78], [81], [87], [90], [280], [581], [722]
Nail parings, toe and finger, [71], [581]
Names, see of Christ and God, and Words, power of
Nannacus, see Annacus
Nard, [169]
Nativities, [25], [95], [104], [115], [185], [471], [559]-60, [632], [679], [712]
Nature, Pliny on, [42], [46]-7;
Seneca, [101];
Galen, [150]-1;
as a teacher, [155];
Plutarch, [210];
in contrast to fate, [375]
Neck, stiff, [737]
Necromancy, [21], [197], [228], [233], [264], [270], [280], [300], [419], [466], [539], [629], [705];
as proof of immortality, [416];
relation to science, [744]
Nectabis, [463]
Nectanebo or Nectanebus, chap. xxiv, [391], [463], [516], [704]
Needle, copper, [590];
eye of, [396]
Nektanebes, Nekht-Har-ehbet, Nekhte-nebof, [558]-9;
and see Nectanebus
Neo-Latin, [732], [757]
Neo-Platonism, chap. xi, [116], [208], [296]-7, [349], [540], [544]-5, [661]
Nero, emperor, [61], [171], [201], [260], [262], [423]-5, [553], [585]
Nerva, emperor, [244]
Nerve and nervous system, [145]-6
Nestorian, [554]
Nettle, [636], [768]
Neuri, [330]
Nias Island, [170]
Niceta, a character in the Recognitions, chap. xvii
Nicias, [22], [204]
Niello, [769]
Night-shade, an herb, [581]
Night time and magic, [68], [78], [129], [224]-6, [234]
Nigromancy, see Necromancy
Nikon, father of Galen, [122]
Nile, [102], [179]-80, [198], [254], [559];
horses, [169]
Nimrod and magic, [413]
Nine, [88], [371], [590], [592], [598], [721], [727]
Nineveh, [243]
Nitrate, [772]
Nitro-muriatic acid, [772]
Noah’s ark, [20];
and see Flood
Noon, [248], [755]
Norman and Normandy, [427], [745]
Nose, [576], [589]
Notebook, [45]-6;
and see Lecture notes
Notory art, [267]
Nude and Nudity, [83], [93], [295], [565], [588]
Numa, king, [274], [505]
Number, observance of, and theory of perfect, [26], [69], [91], [178], [212], [258], [273], [317], [355]-7, [370], [373], [383], [430], [441], [521], [544]-5, [621], [627], [675];
and see Five, Four, Nine, Seven, Ten, Three
Numitor, king, [602]
Nymph, [546]
Oak, [493]
Oath, [430]
Obelisk, [558]
Obscenity in magic and medicine, [61]-2, [167]-8, [204], [207], [236]
Observation, Pliny, [48], [53]-4;
magicians, [64]-5;
Ptolemy, [105], [107], [110], [112];
Galen, [156];
reputed Chaldean, [95], [316];
Dioscorides, [606];
and see Experimental method
Obstetrics, see Child-birth
Occult virtue, discussions of and
references to of a general character, in Egypt, [10];
Pliny, [64]-5, [75]-6, [81], [89];
Galen, [169]-70;
Vitruvius, [183];
Plutarch, [212]-3;
Neo-Platonists, [304], [307], [311], [320], [542]-3;
Brahmans, [257]-8;
Marbod, [778]-81;
miscellaneous, [441], [454], [468]-9
Ocean, [489]
Ocimum, an herb, [93]
Oculist, [284], [670]
Odor, foul, [536]
Odysseus, [264], [281], [509], [629]
Oea, [222]ff.
Oil, [68], [90], [92], [130], [142], [154], [168]-9, [171], [175], [213], [256], [373], [572], [606], [724], [779]
Ointment, see Unguent
Old-wives, [166], [204], [234], [250], [272], [586];
and see Witch
Olybrius, emperor, [606]
Olympias, mother of Alexander, [560]ff.
Olympic games, [22], [102]
Olympus, Mt., [198], [296], [429]
Omens and portents, [14], [92], [178], [201], [231], [251], [254], [260], [318], [430], [471], [543], [560], [562], [675]
One, Once, for the first time, [82], [92], [210], [582]
Onesiphorus, [396]
Onion, [20]
Onoel, a spirit, [367]
Ophites, a marble, [87]
Ophites, a sect, [365], [383]
Opium, [724]
Opobalsam, [128]
Optics, [108], [218], [237], [276], [669]
Oracle, [21], [95], [203], [206]-7, [253], [278], [295], [318], [432], [442], [466], [534], [627]
Oratory, [535], [776]
Ordeal, [386], [468], [759]
Oreites, a gem, [295]
Orestes, [324]
Oreus, [365]
Organ, musical, [187]-8, [192]
Oriental attitude, exaggerated estimate of, [20]-1, [388]
Originality, [569], [575], [616]
Origanum, an herb, [218]
Origenists, [461], [519]
Oromazes, a magician, [236]
Orphic rites, [296], [429]
Osiris, [13], [196], [223], [233], [546]
Ossifrage, [87]
Ostrich, [636]
Ouroboros, the encircling serpent, [197], [763]
Owl, [63], [68], [70], [253]
Ox, [468], [722], [755]
Oxford, [642]
Oxygen, [143]
Oyster, [218]
Padua, [164]
Paeanites, a gem, [329]
Paganism, [203], [294], [317], [327], [512], chap. xxiv, [661]-2
Painting, [177], [187], [764]
Palatine hill, [125], [134]
Palermo, [427]
Palestine, [132], [280], [438]
Palimpsest, [553]
Palm, [62], [230], [333], [636]
Pamphile, a witch, [229]ff.
Pamphylia, [132]
Pan, the god, [251], [546]
Panacea, [172]
Pancrates, a magician, [280]-1
Pantarbe, [252]
Panther, [74], [256]
Papacy, [705];
see Sixtus IV for patronage of learning by
Papyri, [12], [14], [22], [27]-8, [193], [196], [365], [467], [686]
Paradise, [367], [470], [488]
Paralysis, [739];
of the face, [738];
tongue, [755]
Parchment, [589], [729], [764]
Pard, [74], [168]
Paris, [642]
Parrot, [575]
Parthians, [373], [376]
Partridge, [168], [324], [574]
Pastoral magic, [70]
Paternoster, see Lord’s Prayer
Pathology, [576]
Paul the apostle, [405], [413], [424], [449], [505];
potion of, [739]
Peacock, [574], [636]
Pebble, [591]
Pelican, [324]
Pella, [278]
Penalty, [293], [313], [433]
Penance, [513]
Pendant, [301]
Peony, [78], [173], [614], [740], [756]
Pepper, [169], [176], [256], [586], [637]
Pergamum, [122], [124], [130], [136], [149], [171], [236]
Peristereos, an herb, [77]
Persecution, fear of, [194]
Persia and Persian, [58], [66], [376], [451], [475], [479], [503], [553], [558], [744], [762]
Personification, [198], [343]
Perspective, see Optics
Peru, [7], [17]
Peter the apostle, [231], chap xvii, [505]
Petroselinon, [132]
Phaethon, [283]
Phalangium, an insect, [86]
Phallic ritual, [308]
Phantasm and Phantom, see Apparition, Ghost
Phanuel, an angel, [342]
Pharaoh’s dream, [358];
magicians, [379], [385], [417], [438], [446], [464], [470], [506]-8, [629]
Pharmacy and Pharmacology, [10], [20], [83], [122], [133], [343], [413], [434], [610], [734]-5
Phidias, [24], [407]
Philae, [559]
Philip of Macedon, [331], [560]ff.
Philoctetes, [294]
Philology, [535], [545]
Philosopher’s stone, [52], [197], [398], [763];
and see Alchemy
Philosophy, Greek, [21];
and alchemy, [13], [199];
and magic, [24], [61], [234], [246], [310], [440], [535];
and astrology, [674];
and business, [97];
Seneca, [103];
Galen and pseudo-Galen, [123]-4, [127], [133], [139], [146], [149]-50, [176], [180];
Vitruvius, [185]-6;
other mentions of, [220], [223], [279], [360], [416], [466], [471], [481], [485], [493], [536], [620], [707];
and see names of individuals (largely in other index) and schools.
Phlebotomy, see Bleeding
Phoebus, [620];
and see Apollo
Phoenicia, [438]
Phoenix, [207], [257], [332]-3, [347], [460]
Phraotes, [258]
Phrygia and Phrygian, [206], [430], [597], [630]
Phylactery, [513]
Physica, [512], [579]-80
Physics, [644]
Physiognomy, [26], [176], [179], [460], [668]
Physiology, [145], [395], [657]-60
Pig, [76], [85], [168], [219], [393], [587], [727], [729], [764], [766];
and see Swine
Pill, [739]
Pillow, beneath one’s, [90]
Pine-tree, [490], [493]
Piper, [217]
Pirronius, a magician, [604]
Piston, [192]
Place, observed in magic, [645]
Plagiarism, [186], [483], [649], [742], [746]-7
Plague, Galen and, [124], [142], [171];
of 1348 A.D., [164];
Apollonius and, [259], [391];
of 542 A.D., [575];
of Egypt, [325], [357], [491], [522], [685], [687], [696];
miscellaneous, [410], [432], [538]-9, [600]
Planetary week, [16], [513], [633]
Planets, when distinguished, [13]-4, [16];
properties of, [97], [113]-4, [346], [383], [526], [529], [662], [711];
in Gnosticism, [361];
in art, [379];
and the metals, [347], [368], [709], [763], [767];
and herbs, [291];
position at creation, [711], [713];
and formation of foetus, see Child-birth
Plate, metal, [229], [386], [572], [582]
Platonism, [221], [243], [456];
for Plato see other index
Pleiades, [179], [355], [636]
Pleurisy, [738]
Plough, [80]
Pneumatics, [188]
Poetry, [6], [95], [511], [535]
Poison and Poisoning, relation to magic, [25], [61], [441];
to medicine, [56];
venomous human beings, [324];
safeguards against, [67], [70]-1, [386], [614],
and see Antidote;
miscellaneous, [81], [86]-7, [231]-2, [397], [417], [460], [535], [565], [572], [574], [668], [721], [733]
Polar star, [384]
Polion, an herb, [77]
Politics, [358], [666]
Pompholyx, [132]
Pontianus, [223]-4
Pontiff, [124], [149]
Pontus, drugs from, [87], [132]
Poplar, [90]
Poppy, bearing stones, [216]
Population, [136]
Pork, [142]
Pot-herbs, [606]
Potter and Pottery, [384], [433], [588]-9
Praestigium, [630], [665]
Praetor, [538]
Prayer, [12], [79], [104], [219], [233], [382], [398], [412], [423], [426], [443], [457], [530]-1, [589], [645], [671], [705], [728];
procuring answer to, [70], [294], [593], [779];
by others than man, [457];
to others than God, [260], [264], [303], [526], [598]-9, [661];
of St. John, [721];
and see Lord’s Prayer, Incantation
Predestination, [514]
Prefect, [526]
Pregnant stone, [740]
Presbyter, [437]
Prescription, medical, [152], [159], [172]
Presentation, literary and scientific, [570], [595], [625]
Prester, John, [477]
Priest, [9], [13], [15], [21], [79], [85], [131], [195], [197], [300], [386], [533], [754], [763], [766]
Priscillianists, [478], [519]
Private parts, [343], [536]
Procharus, [397]
Proconsul, [235], [527]
Professions, learned, [5], [125]-6, [186]-7, [744]
Prognostication, medical, [164]
Prophecy and Prophet, [25], [77], [205], [230], [352], [370], [439], [447], [459], [465], [476], [479], [534]
Proteus, [263]
Psychology, [75], [144]-5, [657]-60
Ptah-Seker-Ausar, [233]
Ptolemais, [541]
Ptolemy, king of Egypt, [135]
Pulse, [144]-5, [430], [658]
Pump, [187], [192]
Punic, [597]
Puppy, see Dog
Purging, [667];
the lungs, [143]
Purification, [62], [204], [232], [441], [531], [598]
Purple, [173], [197]-8, [590]-1, [604]
Push-ball, [487]
Pylades, [144]-5
Pyrethrum, an herb, [614]
Pyrigoni, [324]
Pyrites, [571], [768]
Pyromancy, [260], [629]
Pyrrhus, [83]
Pytho, [629]
Pythagorean, [26], [32], [50], [58], [61], [63], [65]-6, [179], [184], [243], [258], [260], [280], [370], [456], [544]
Quail, [490]
Quadrivium, [632]
Qualities, the four, [114], [139]-40, [154], [157], [218], [485], [751], [755];
and see Cold, Heat
Quartan fever, [269], [579]-81, [736]
Quaternities, divine, [674]
Quick-lime, [434], [571]
Quinsy, [77], [89]
Quintus Cicero, [269]ff.
Rabbi, [355], [445]. [470]
Rabbit, [588], [729]
Race, [184], [781];
for strange races see Hyperboreans, Seres, etc.
Radiation of force or light, [643]-6
Radish, [721]
Rainbow, [409]
Rain-making, [23]-4, [103], [386], [430]
Rain-water, [81]-2
Ram, [213], [332], [424], [467]
Raphael, the angel, [342], [367], [447], [452], [454]
Rat, [76]
Ravenna, [367], [763]
Raymond, archbishop of Toledo, [657]
Reading, medieval, [604], [617]-8
Reason, [218], [660];
free from magic, [300];
and experience, [157]
Red, used, [65], [581], [508], [740]
Red Sea, [84], [208]
Redeemer, [361], [363], [438]
Reed, [75]-6, [80], [90], [215], [591], [726]
Reformed churches, [447]
Reggio, [445], [745]
Relics of saints, [444], [446], [593], [675]
Religion, and magic, [5]-6, [8]-9, [15], [18], [20], [22]-3, [33]-4, [60], [232], [256], [505], [533];
and astrology, [15]-7, [524], [529]-31;
and science, [407]-8, [479], chap. xxi;
other than Christian, [94], [361], [725],
and see Mohammedanism, Paganism, etc.;
medieval religious attitude, [746], [752];
and see Christianity, God, Theology, Trinity, etc.
Renaissance, [20], [122], [570], [618]
Reseda, an herb, [93]
Respiration, see Breathing
Resurrection of the body, [47], [415], [541]
Resuscitation of corpses, [280], [391], [394], [397], [424], [426], [638], [763]
Revelation, [56], [253], [407];
and see Divination by
Revolutions, astrological, [26], [377], [650]
Rhetoric, [124], [221], [269], [483], [518], [533], [535], [555], [596], [603], [700]
Rhodes, [269], [301]
Rhododendron, [175]
Rhubarb, first mention of, [576]
Riddles, [636]
Right hand, etc., used or preferred, [70], [78], [81], [83], [88], [90], [92], [324]-5, [332], [574], [580]-1, [591]-2, [767]
Ring, [69], [78], [173], [219], [251], [253], [280], [292], [379], [564], [582], [590], [592], [599], [656], [662], [705], [755]
Ring-worm, [93]
Rip van Winkle, [399]
Ritual, [12], [23];
and see Ceremonial
Roads, Roman, [135]-6
Robber, [117]
Robert, king of France, [672], [704], [736]
Robert Guiscard, [745]
Romance, Greek, [22], [221], [232], [553];
Medieval, [557]
Romanesque, [502]
Romans, traits of, [184]
Rome, as center of learning, [124], [128]-31, [135], [162], [201], [222], [242], [269], [277], [537], [586], [741];
other mentions, [209], [230], [366], [372], [403], [408], [421], [423]-4, [464], [553]
Romulus, [209], [274], [330], [602]
Root, see Herb
Rose, [230], [751];
wild, [56]
Royal Society, [214]
Rubbing, [142]
Ruddy complexion, [768]-71
Rue, [737];
eaten by weasel, [74], [324], [626]
Ruin, excavated, [762]
Russet, [89]
Rust, [766]
Rustic, experience, [578], [585]
Sabaoth, [365], [367], [379], [451], [583], [599]
Sabbath, [204], [513]
Sabians, [661]-3
Sacerdos, [235]
Sacra Via, [125], [133], [424]
Sacrifice, [68], [79], [104], [131], [166], [215], [248], [250]-1, [261], [294]-5, [308]-9, [317], [363], [414], [431], [645], [661]-3, [705];
human, [62], [207], [249], [418], [539], [687]
Sacrum amarum, [739]
Saffron, [656], [765]
Sagmina, sacred herbs, [76]
St. Gall, [640], [677]
St. Sophia, [575], [770]
Sakkara, [9]
Salamander, [54], [68], [85], [214], [324], [511], [636];
“wool,” [214]
Salerno, chaps. xxxi, xxxii
Salisatores, [630]
Saliva, [20], [82], [88]-9, [92]-3, [174], [281], [373], [392], [573], [588], [592], [656], [769]
Salmon, [424]
Salt, [213], [373], [467], [583], [670];
and see Holy, Sodom
Saltus Gilberti, [705]
Salve, [87], [606], [722]
Salvia, [739]
Samaria, [363]-4, [368], [421]
Samothracian orgies, [149]
Samuel, ghost of, see Endor, witch of
Sandal-Makers, street of, [134]
Sandals, [230]
Sandastros, a gem, [97]
Sapphire, [496], [779]
Saracen, [138], [718]
Sarcophagus, [476]
Sard, [777]
Sardinia, [329]
Sardis, [255]
Sardonia, an herb, [329]
Sardonic laugh, [329]
Satire, [285]
Saturn, god, [207];
planet, [97], [184], [580], [633], [768]
Saturninus, a heretic, [372]
Satyr, [263]-4, [546]
Saul, [448], [469]
Scarab, [10], [68], [333]
Scarification, [721]
Scepticism, see Credulity and
Sciatica, [69]
Scientific spirit, curiosity, etc., [144], [234], [308], [378]-9, [437], [485]-6, [494], [502]-4, [528], [535], [559], [669], [752];
and see Experiment, Observation
Scipio Orfitus, [223]
Scorpion, [74], [81], [85]-8, [171], [174], [494], [573], [583], [656], [666]
Scotland, [654]
Scrofula, [82], [89], [91], [587]
Sculpture, [277], [501]
Scylla, the monster, [263], [636];
an herb, [526]
Scythian, [59], [77], [245], [407], [496], [654]
Sea, [225], [738];
and see Bath
Sea-calf, [580];
faring, [245];
foam, [468];
gull, [159];
hare, [171], [236], [238], [587];
holly, [213];
serpent, [325], [574];
star, [89];
urchin, [68], [490]-1
Seal of Diana, [130]
Sealing, [69], [278], [468]
Seasons, four, [114]
Secrecy, [194], [227], [233], [239], [254], [287], [295], [372], [405], [420], [579], [765], [776]
Seed, [605];
seedless herbs, [489]
Seia, [599]
Selene, [215]
Selenomancy, [98]
Semen, [369]
Semitic, [15]
Semo Sancus, [421]
Senecion, an herb, [614]
Sense and Senses, [150], [158], [180], [355]
Sepia, [87]
Septimius Severus, emperor, [243], [253], [293];
and see Severi
Septizonium, [253]
Serapis, [379], [442], [763]
Seres, [376], [402], [412]-4
Serf and Servant, [739];
and see Colonus; Slavery
Sermon, [426], [482]ff.
Serpent, lifted up in the wilderness, [379];
and see Snake, Dragon, Sea-serpent
Sesame, [655]
Sethians, [365]
Sethos, [14]
Seven, [14], [16], [49], [67], [69], [169], [179], [198], [212], [232], [253], [258], [279], [282], [318], [333], [346], [355]-6, [365], [371], [373], [376], [378], [383], [385], [411], [429], [435], [491], [522], [537], [545], [581], [590], [592], [599], [633], [676], [724], [771], [777]
Seven sleepers, [725], [759]
Severi, dynasty of, [125], [130];
and see Septimius
Sèvres, [762]
Sex, observed in magic, [69], [78], [80]-2, [94], [729], [759];
of hyena, [397];
of herbs and stones, [81], [764];
of numbers, [179], [371];
of planets and signs, [282], [662], [709]-12;
predicted, [175]-6, [516];
intercourse, [141], [639], [767]
Shadow, [605]
Shadow-footed, [256]
Shark, [494]
Shaving the head, [142], [560], [724]
Sheba, [479]
Sheep, [68], [102], [168], [173], [219], [467], [490], [582], [656];
the lost, [363];
and see Lamb, Ram, Shepherd, Pastoral
Shellfish, [98], [517]
Shepherd, [478]
Ship, [604];
wreck, [748]
Shirt, [581]
Shoe, [638]
Short-hand, [134], [232]
Showbread, [385]
Sibyl, [546];
for Sibylline books see other index
Sicily, [85], [427], [525]
Sideritis, a stone, [295]
Sieve, [91], [250], [325]
Signatures, [310]
Sign, see Abbreviation, Divination, Prognostication, Sex predicted, Star, Zodiac
Silence observed, [722]
Silas, [449]
Silk, [608]
Silvanus, [546]
Silver, [590], [599]
Similarity, argument from, [238], [614];
and see Like cures like
Simon the Canaanite, [392]
Simon Magus, chap. xvii, [362]-5, [397], [439]
Simon, St., [435]
Simples, medicinal, in Pliny, [46], [83];
Galen, [128], [153], [160], [168], [571]
Sin, [344], [372]-5, [430], [457], [520];
effect on nature, [254], [345], [350], [409]-10, [490]
Sinew, [68], [148]
Siphon, [189], [191]
Siren, [263]
Sisebut, king, [623]
Sisinnios, [398]
Six, [184], [356], [521]
Sixtus IV, pope, [349], [596]
Skeleton, [233]
Skin, [141], [769];
changing one’s, [170], [238], [324];
disease, [102], [537];
see Animals, parts of;
and the names of particular animals for the use of their skins
Skull, [80], [580]
Sky, see Heaven
Slav, [658]
Slavery, [136], [170], [350], [515], [668], [683]
Slavonic, [342], [345], [398]
Sleep, magic, [399]
Sleight-of-hand, [370]
Slot-machine, [197]
Smallpox, [668]
Smilax, [92]
Smoke, [89], [615]
Smyrna, [123]
Snail, [89], [92], [586]
Snake, remedies against, [84]-9, [99], [175], [258], [295], [365], [386], [392], [495], [599], [614];
animals antipathetic to, [84]-5, [99], [231];
virtue in, [23], [168], [197];
of India, [214], [564];
Satan and demons as, [365], [391], [430];
charming, [83], [278]-80, [325], [511], [561]-2, [638]-9;
sting and venom of, [56], [81]-2, [102];
foam of, [67];
sloughing of, [170];
not found in Ismuc, [183];
at Delphi, [283];
on a pendant, [301];
medical knowledge of, [441];
and see Fennel, tasted by
Sneeze, divination from, [95], [205], [207]
Social aspect of magic, [59];
life in antiquity, [137], [185]
Socrates, [137], [139], [204], [234], [240], [270], [288], [532]
Soda, washing, [571]
Sodom, salts of, [138]
Soldier, [56]-7
Solemnity, required in magic, [644]-6
Solon, [326], [355]
Son of God, [372], [438]
Soot, [236]
Sopater, [313]
Sophist and Sophistry, [540]-1
Soporific, [758]
Sorcery, [10], [25], [61], [96], [166], [270], [279], [324], [344], [352], [386], [390], [393], [437]-8, [441], [655], [690], [733];
counter-magic against, [17]-20, [70], [81], [94], [301], [391], [600];
and see Goetia, Witchcraft
Sortilegi, [630]
Sory, [132]
Soul, human, Plato on, [25]-6;
Pliny, [47], [96];
Galen, [150], [178], [180];
Plutarch, [206]-7, [213], [217];
Neo-Platonists, [309]-10, [318];
Gnostics, [364];
location of, [735];
apart from body, [399], [418], [455], [510], [546];
immortality of, [416], [419], [469], [531], [541];
other than human, [198], [213];
and see World-soul
Sound, [143], [201], [430], [542]
Sousnyos, St., [398]
Spain, [380], [433], [489], [580], [597], [607]
Spanish era, [773]
Sparrow, [271]
Sparta and Spartan, [21]-2, [216], [301]
Species, [304], [493], [751]
Speech, impediment of, [536]
Sphaera barbarica, [537]
Sphere, see Earth, Universe, and other index
Spice, [250], [257], [295], [606]
Spider, [90], [94], [168]-9, [171], [175], [587]
Spinal cord, [146]
Spirit, good or evil (including angel and demon, but see also Apparition, Ghost, Necromancy, Soul), in early Arabic poetry, [6];
in the ancient orient, [11], [15], [18]-9, [24];
classical Greece, [24], [26], [180]-1;
on nature of, Plutarch, [203]-4, [206]-8;
Apuleius, [240];
Philostratus, [263]-4;
Iamblichus, [309]-10;
Enoch, [343]; Origen and Celsus, [441]-3, [452]-3;
Augustine, [508];
Martianus Capella, [545]-6;
Dionysius the Areopagite, [546]-7;
Christian ascription of other religions to demons, [370], [414], [429]ff., [442], [453];
disease and, [11], [18]-9, [299], [343], [452], [722];
expulsion of, and power over, [253], [262], [386], [405], [414], [417]-8, [441], [443,] [754], [779], and see Exorcism; fall of, [343], [374]-5;
familiar and guardian, [207], [210], [368], [370];
in the air, [206], [240], [424], [463], [508], [635];
in heavens and stars, chap. xv, [343], [397], [431], [458], [487]-8, [519];
in the moon, [207];
in nature, [181], [296], [308], [310], [347], [382], [414], [430], [443], [452]-4, [543];
invocation of, [301], [308], [310], [320], [361], [367]-8, [371]-2, [384], [419], [437], [442], [447], [449]-52, [543], [655], [674], and see Necromancy, Notory art;
magic, astrology, arts and sciences ascribed to, [195], [240], [313], [343], [368], [370], [412], [414], [417]-8, [422], [429]-32, [441]-3, [447]-8, [453], [458]-9, [463], [465]-6, [506]-7, [509], [513], [518], [629], [675], [705];
mediums between God or gods and men, [206], [208], [240], [349], [452]-4, [459], [621], [675];
orders of, [308]-9, [320], [363], [408], [455], [507], [545]-7, [727];
possessed by, [308], [392], [413]-4, [434], [510], [640], [723]-4, [754]-5;
safeguards against, [18], [216], [293], [391], [398], [449], [615], [726], [728]
Spiritus, [147], [658]-60
Spit, see Saliva
Spleen, [57], [68]-9, [85], [536], [577], [579], [584], [587]-8, [591]
Spodium or Spodos, [132]
Sponge, [227]
Spoon, [721]
Spring, water [229];
caused to flow, [769];
and see Fountain, Seasons
Staff, [252], [435], [679]
Stag, [84], [207], [294], [324];
and see Deer
Stained glass, [427], [435], [770]
Stans, the, [415]
Star, nature of, god or animal, etc., [25]-6, [103], [206], [210], [212], [240], [303], [315], [343]-4, [353], [436], [456], [519]-21, [530], [620]-1, [632], [662], [670];
as sign, [302], [410], [458], [544];
not cause of evil, [305], [354], [475], [514];
cause of evil, [411];
affected by magic, [225]-6;
shooting, [71], [589];
fixed, [114];
and see Astrology;
Christ, birth of;
Magi
Star-fish, [56]
Starling, [490]
Statue, [91], [279], [280], [764];
healing, [284];
animated, [188], [416]-7, [424], [435];
and see Image, Sculpture
Steam, [192]
Stele of Metternich, [559]
Stepmother, [215]
Stoic, [50], [141], [178]-81, [210], [269]-70, [283], [350], [397], [456]
Stomach, [92], [173], [536], [592], [656], [757]
Stone, the disease, [87], [588], [729];
and see Gem
Stoning to death, [262], [399]
Storax, a gum, [495]
Stork, [257], [324]-5, [331], [460], [580]
Storm-averting magic, [71], [80], [92], [102], [252], [313]
Stream, [91], [225]-6, [546];
and see Fountain
Stupa, [251], [413]
Style, literary, [222]-3, [525], [570], [620]
Styx, river, [326]
Suanir, [435]
Suffumigation, see Fumigation
Suggestion, force of, [265]
Sulla, [532]
Sulphur, [279], [764]
Sumerian, [15], [17]
Summun bonum, [752]
Sun, god and worship, [97], [251], [261], [294]-5, [317]-8, [382], [492], [524];
personified, [347], [410], [457], [529];
and magic, [141], [225]-7, [308], [386];
astrological influence of, [99], [179], [211];
rising and dawn, [215], [230]-1, [256], [261];
before sunrise, [69], [71], [78], [91], [94], [131], [173], [281], [583], [599], [768];
before sunset, [583];
experiment with, [55];
dial, [185], [187];
distance and size of, [219], [488];
tropical, [214];
tree of, [564]
Superstition, Plutarch on, [203]-4;
in medicine, chaps. xxv, xxxi
Surgery, [148]-9, [536], [569], [668], [723], [735]
Suriel, a spirit, [367]
Swaddling cloth, [392], [396]
Swallow, habits of, [75], [324], [615], [636];
use of, [68], [70], [168], [175], [581], [721]
Swallow-stone, [755], [766]
Swallow-wort, [75], [615], [626]
Swan, [636]; song, [255], [332]
Sweat, [167], [392], [767], [779]
Swine, [70], [77], [79], [99], [217];
and see Pig
Sword, [78], [295];
magic [258]
Sylvia, [404]
Symbol and Symbolism, [166], [251], [310], [361], [367], [502], [506], [546], [676]-7, [679], [721];
in alchemy, [766]-7, [771]-2
Sympathetic magic, [68], [84]-7, [92], [238], [271], [296], [299], [304], [312], [314], [320], [354], [542]-3, [614]
Symposium, [137], [201]-2
Symptoms, [735]
Syncretism, [525]
Synod at Rome, [389], [402]
Syracuse, [476]
Syria, Syriac, and Syrian, [280], [374], [387], [395], [403]-4, [422], [437], [497], [499], [503], [554], [559]-61, [577], [597], [601], [661], [663], [747], [762]
Syrian goddess, [231]
Syringe, [192]
Syrup, [560]
Tablecloth, [214]
Tables, astronomical, [14];
of contents, [50], [153].
Tablet, astrological, [560], [563];
and see Cuneiform, Lead
Taboo, [21];
and see Iron
Tagus, [630]
Tamarisk, [85], [587]
Tape-worm, first mentioned, [576]
Tarpeian rock, [426]
Tarquin the Proud, [602]
Tarrutius, an astrologer, [209], [330]
Tarsus, [259], [479]
Taste, sense of, [505]
Taxo, [600], [636]
Teiresias, [281]
Telines, [21]
Temperaments, four, [668]
Temple, [533];
of Peace, [125];
devices, [192]-3;
in alchemy, [197]-8, [763];
Egyptian, [261], [301], [559];
Jewish, [395];
Greek, [407];
of the Sun, [435];
of Liber, [496];
Christian, [533]
Terebinth-tree, [571]
Terra sigillata, [130]-2, [154], [756]
Tetter, [93]
Textbook, [635]
Text and Textual criticism and history, magic, [9];
cuneiform, [15], [17]-8;
classics, [21], [27];
Aristotle, [24], [27];
Pliny, [52];
Ptolemy, [106], [108];
Galen, [119]-21;
Hero, [189];
alchemy, [193];
Plutarch, [202];
Aelian, [322];
Philo, [348]-9;
patristic, [374], [377], [389], [401]-6, [477], [495];
Physiologus, [497]-9;
Alexander legend, chap. xxiv;
Medicine of Pliny, [596];
Dioscorides, [594], [606]-13;
medicine, [567], [731];
Isidore, [623];
medieval alterations, [3], [338], [683], [720]
Thaphtabaoth, a spirit, [369]
Thaumaturgy, [190]
Thautabaoth, a spirit, [367]
Theater, [184], [422], [425], [486], [506], [512]
Thebes and Theban, [179], [491], [553], [765]
Theft, discovery of, and recovery of object, [644], [666], [681], [718], [725];
aids, [780]
Theodamas, [294]
Theodoric the East Goth, [569], [617], [619]
Theodosius I, emperor, [584]
Theodosius II, emperor, [327]
Theology, astral, [15], [17], [360]-1, [543], [621];
and magic, [18], [234];
Galen, [149];
Egyptian, [370];
attitude shown, [619]-20
Therapeutae, [349], [356]
Therapeutics, [10], [122], [141], [735]
Theriac, [130], [733], [756]
Thersites, [269]
Thessaly, home of witches, [58], [203], [226]
Theurgy, chap. xi, [505], [535]
Thomas the apostle, in India, [475], [477]
Thoth, [288]
Thotmes IV, king of Egypt, [13]
Thought, history of, [3]-4;
explained physiologically, [659]
Thread, [89], [590], [656]
Three, Thrice, etc., [69], [79], [82], [88]-9, [91], [93], [169], [174], [295], [476], [479], [582], [588]-9, [592], [614], [656], [721], [730], [736], [767]
Threshold, [69], [89]
Throat, disease of, [82]
Thunder, divination from, [57], [96], [262], [546], [562], [629], [635]-6, [674], [679];
other observance of, [78];
thought to produce mushrooms, [219];
stage, [468]
Thyme, [571]
Tiberius, emperor, [59], [776]
Tick, [67]
Tide, [254], [274], [351], [517], [530], [703]
Tigellinus, [259], [263], [265]
Tiger, [256], [502]
Tigris-Euphrates, [13]-6, [281]-2
Ti’i, [18]
Time, devices for telling, [115], [144], [187], [276], [333], [395];
observed in magic, [645]
Titus, emperor, [42], [45]
Toad, [771]
Tobias nights, [688]
Toledo, [657]
Tomb, Egyptian, [9], [14]
Tongue, [98], [150];
use of, [175], [726], [779];
gift of, [208], [386]
Tooth, [68], [82], [84], [159], [279], [599],
600, [656], [769];
extracting, filling, etc., [175], [573], [779]
Toothache, cures for, [56], [68], [88]-90, [169], [175], [577], [588]-9, [592], [599], [614], [724], [727], [755]
Toothpowder, [236]
Topaz, [495]
Top, spinning, [487]
Torpedo, [159]
Tortoise, [68], [74], [76], [88], [91], [325], [626], [764]
Torture, [381], [538]
Touch, [324]
Tower, of Babylon, [16]
Trade, [486], [494];
and see Merchant, Business
Tradition, see Authority, Legend, Textual history
Trajan, emperor, [135], [373]
Transfer, magic, see Disease
Transformation, magic, [21], [23], [226], [250], [280], [390], [393], [399], [415]-7, [424], [446], [470], [509], [561]-2, [630], [773];
and see Werwolf
Translation, Latin, of Ptolemy, [106], [109]-10;
Galen, [121], [176];
Hero, [189];
church fathers, [445], [484];
post-classical and early medieval, [570], [576], [619], chap. xxiv;
from the Arabic, [611], [690]-1, chaps. xxviii, xxx, xxxii;
pretended, [292];
Anglo-Saxon, [638];
other vernacular, [498], [612], [677], [778];
Greek, [331], [342], [637];
magic, [430];
Arabic, [106], [189], [292], [498], [554], [607], [652]-3
Travel, [575], [668], [743]
Tree, [255];
of knowledge, [367], [474];
of life, [350];
sun and moon, [474]
Trial, for heresy or magic, Apuleius, [222], [232]-40;
Apollonius, [249];
Priscillian, [381];
Basilius, [639]
Triangle, [206], [356]
Trigona, Trigones, or Triplicitates, [114], [184]
Trigonometry, [107]
Trinity, [479], [541], [619]-20
Triptolemus, [546]
Trivia, [236]
Trojan war, [260], [271], [294], [363]
Trophonius, cave of, [204], [206], [248], [282]
Truth, devotion to, [400];
Galen, [118]-9, [123], [127];
Plotinus, [300];
Plain of, [211];
Simon’s Helen and, [364]-5
Tube, hidden, [469]
Tübingen theory, [423]
Tumor, [71], [82], [93], [571], [587], [590], [599]
Tunis, [744]
Tunny fish, [218]
Turpentine, [132]
Tuscan, [598]
Tutia, [132]
Twelve, [14], [383], [385], [411], [495]
Twins, [81];
argument from, against astrology, [273], [275], [514]
Typhon, [463], [558]
Tyriac, see Theriac
Ulcer, [580], [779]
Underground, magic learned, [280];
and see Burial
Underwear, [386], [581]
Underworld, [16], [251], [282], [383], [470]
Unguent, [55], [128]-30, [133], [142], [169], [229], [367], [420], [739], [755]
Unicorn, [255], [636]
Universals and particulars, [622]
Universe, theories of, [180]-1, [193], [210], [254], [312], [361]-4, [371], [397];
duration of, [374]-6, [541];
sphericity of, [408]
Urine, use of, [81]-3, [325], [573], [581], [640], [684], [737], [746], [763], [766]-9;
emission of, [69], [739], [756]
Ursa Major, [355]
Utensils, [624]
Vacuum, [189], [669]
Valentinus the Gnostic, [364], [374], [411], [488]
Valve, [192];
in brain, [659]
Vampire, see Empousa, Lamia
Vapor, [141]
Vaporization, [724]
Vascular system, [30]
Vases, Greek, [266], [770]
Vein, [147], [576], [728]
Venesection, see Bleeding
Ventriloquism, [352], [448], [470], [560];
and see Endor, witch of
Venus, goddess, [236];
planet, [96]-7
Verbena, an herb, [66], [76], [614], [725]
Vernacular literature, [3];
and see Translation
Verus, L., emperor, [124]
Vervain, see Verbena
Vespasian, emperor, [253]
Vesuvius, Mt., [45]
Veterinary, [593], [722], [724], [730]
Vinegar, [57], [71], [169], [175], [768]
Vineyard, [604]
Violet, [751]
Viper, use of, [91], [142], [159], [170], [173], [218], [294], [331], [572],
and see Theriac; remedy against, [213], [490], [721];
mode of generation, [172], [238], [255], [277], [323], [409], [491]
Virgin and Virginity, [55], [83], [90], [93], [216], [279], [326], [431], [491], [639], [763];
and see Chastity, and Mary, Virgin
Virtue, see Occult
Virtues, three, [479];
four, [675]
Vision, theory of, [659], [669]
Vitriol, [764]
Vivisection, [147]
Voice, [134], [146], [180], [184]
Volcano, [254]
Vowels, [92], [356], [371], [379]
Vulture, [89], [333], [580], [724], [726], [729]
Wall, of house, [69]
Wand, magic, [20], [252], [508], [560]
War and Warfare, [187], [358];
decried, [6], [46]-7, [122]
Warts, to get rid of, [71], [88], [166], [589], [737]
Washing, ceremonial, [295], [730]
Wasp, [332]
Water, and Waters, [142], [373], [408], [490];
above the firmament, [181], [346], [458], [487], [632];
drinking, [685];
dissolves magic, [227], [722];
in which feet washed, [175];
marvelous, medical, and chemical, [102], [183], [197], [329], [763];
-jar and -works, [187], [191]-2;
clock, see Time;
underground, [55];
and see Fountain, Holy, Stream, Sea, etc.
Wave theory, see Sound
Wax, [71], [229], [467]-8, [571], [738];
and see Image
Weasel, [80], [231], [331], [396], [409], [460], [636];
and see Rue, tasted by
Weather, observed, [178];
predicted, [97], [115], [181], [185], [231], [325], [463], [605], [642], [647];
and see Rain-making, Storm-averting magic
Well, [55], [251], [271]
Werwolf, [23], [51], [339]
Whale, [49]
Wheat, [373], [598]
Wheel, [192], [382];
magic or solar, [266];
of fortune, [683]
Whetstone, [71]
White, [78]-9, [215], [295], [755]
Widow, [71]
Will, free, relation to fate and the stars, [210], [275]-6, [306], [315], [374]-5, [412], [456], [475], [513], [518], [531], [620]-2
William Rufus, king of England, [673]
Wind, [16], [78], [373], [676], [678], [728]
Wine, [55], [68]-9, [132], [137], [142], [231], [263], [295], [572], [581], [605]-6, [721], [739], [765];
and see Falernian
Witch, Witchcraft, and Wizard, [2], [18]-9, [164], [172], [203], [225]-31, [251], [344], [373], [407], [535], [599], [722];
and see Goetia, Old-wives, Sorcery
Wolf, [80], [93], [172], [219], [332], [587]-8, [656], [726];
and see Werwolf
Woman, [396], [588], [710], [740]-1;
diseases of, [82], [142], [289], [536], [746]
Wood, [233]
Woodpecker, [23], [78]
Wool, [89], [173], [590], [656]
Words, power of, [10], [24], [152], [207], [231], [239], [279], [299], [311], [370], [378], [384], [414], [422]-31, [438], [445], [449]-52, [476], [507], [561]-2, [605], [627], [644], [666];
and see Incantation
World-soul, [96], [150], [210], [254], [299], [303], [349], [358], [410], [544], [622]
Worm, [89], [94], [582], [729], [754], [768];
and see Earthworm, Tape-worm
Wormwood, [722]
Writing, a sin, [344];
invisible, [265]
Wryneck, [265]-7
Yahweh, [446]
Year 1000 A.D., [675]
Yew, [81]
York, [689]
Youth, renewed or perpetual, see Elixir, Fountain, Longevity
Zeus, [23], [193], [284], [380]
Zodiac, [14], [16], [96], [98], [114], [179], [184], [283], [354], [378], [492], [520], [679], [711], [728];
and parts of human body, [662], [673]-4, [777]
Zoology, [237], [503];
and see Animal
Zone, [376]