Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. / A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

by Frank Cowan

[271.] Harper’s New Monthly Mag., xxiv. 491, 2.

[272.] Donovan seems to think that Ovid’s account of the Transformation of Phaeton’s Sisters into trees, had its origin in some such idea as this.—Insects of China, p. 18, note. See also Chamb. Journal, xi. 367, 2d Ser.

[273.] Donovan’s Ins. of China, p. 19.

[274.] Smith’s Nature and Art, x. 240.

[275.] Amer. Phil. Trans., vol. iii. Introd.

[276.] Cuvier, An. Kingd.—Ins., ii. 173.

[277.] Nat. Hist. of Barbados, p. 90.

[278.] 4th Pastoral, line 102.

[279.] Mag-astromancers Posed and Puzzel’d, p. 181.

[280.] Dæmonologia, 1650, p. 59.