LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| The Unicorn (from a “Description of 300 Animals,” A.D. 1786) | [5] |
| The Manticora (from a “Description of 300 Animals,” A.D. 1786) | [13] |
| The Lamia (from a “Description of 300 Animals,” A.D. 1786) | [13] |
| Dragons (from a “Description of 300 Animals,” A.D. 1786) | [17] |
| The Sea-Elephant | [72] |
| Dragon, from a piece of Italian decoration | [79] |
| The Sea-Lion | [160] |
| The Harpy (from the “Historia Monstrorum” of Aldrovandus, A.D. 1642) | [161] |
| The Barnacle Tree, from Gerarde’s “Herbal,” A.D. 1633 | [169] |
| The Barnacle Tree (from the “Theatrum Botanicum” of Parkinson, A.D. 1640) | [173] |
| The Barnacle Tree (from “Munster’s Cosmography,” A.D. 1550) | [174] |
| The Palm (from the “Eikon Basilike,” A.D. 1648) | [203] |
MYTH-LAND.
CHAPTER I.
Introduction—“A Description of 300 Animals”—Unicorn—The Bible Unicorn—The Heraldic Unicorn—The Horn as a Poison Test—The Unicorn of Mediæval Legend—Wolf Causing Dumbness—The Rompo or Man-eater—The Manticora—The Lamia—Stag Antipathies—Dragons—Dragon-slaying—Legends of the Saints—The “Legenda Aurea”—St. George—Mediæval Recipes—The “Historia Monstrorum” of Aldrovandus—The Dragon in Heraldry—The Dragon of Wantley—Dragons’ Teeth—The Dragonnades—The Dragons of Shakespeare—Guardians of Treasure—The Feud between the Dragon and the Elephant—The “Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume—The Cockatrice—The Basilisk—The Phœnix—Its Literary Existence from Herodotus to Shakespeare—The Dun-Cow of Warwick—Sir Guy, and Percie’s “Reliques of Antient Poetry”—Old Ribs and other Bones in Churches—The Salamander—Breydenbach’s Travels—The “Bestiary” of De Thaun—The Ylio—The Griffin—The Arimaspians—Burton’s “Miracles of Art and Nature”—The Lomie—The Tartarian Vegetable Lamb—The Sea-Elephant—Pegasus—The Vampyre—The Chameleon.
