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

[591.] Josh. xxiv. 12; Deut. vii. 20.

[592.] Kirby’s Bridgewater Treatise.—Saturday Mag., ix. 239.

[593.] Phil. Trans., i. 201.

[594.] Med. Dict.

[595.] Hist. of Beasts, p. 660.

[596.] Theatr. Ins., p. 49. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 657, 927.

[597.] Notes and Queries, ii. 165.

[598.] Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 211.

[599.] Backhouse’s Mauritius, p. 32.

[600.] Moufet, Theatr. Insect., p. 47. Topsel’s Hist. of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, p. 925, 655.