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

[630.] Nat. Hist., xix. 7. Holl. Trans., p. 23. E.

[631.] N. and Q., ii. 165. Chamb. Bk. of Days, i. 752.

[632.] N. & Q., xii. 200.

[633.] Mag. of Nat. Hist., ii. 405.

[634.] Bucke on Nature, i. 419.

[635.] Brand’s Pop. Antiq., ii. 300.

[636.] Ibid.

[637.] Ibid.

[638.] Thorpe’s North. Mythol., iii. 161.

[639.] Vide N. and Q. in Devon, v. 148; Essex, v. 437; Lincolnshire, iv. 270; Surrey, iv. 291; a Cornish superstition, too, xii. 38; in Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Lithuania, and France, iv. 308.