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

[848.] Col. In Hort., v. 357.

[849.] Pallad. B. i. c. 35.

[850.] Theatr. Ins., p. 193. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 1041 and 670.

[851.] Hist. of Indians of U. S., v. p. 70.

[852.] Hist, of Beasts, p. 30.

[853.] Moufet, Theatr. Ins., p. 194. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, pp. 670, 1041.

[854.] Med. Dict.

[855.] Tennent, Nat. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 431.

[856.] Köllar’s Treat. on Ins., Lond. Trans., p. 105–36. Curtis’s Farm Insects, p. 507.

[857.] Lilly’s Prophetical Merlin, pub. in 1644.