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

[917.] Astley’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., iv. 513. Churchill’s same, i. 34.

[918.] Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 160.

[919.] Dr. James says: “Given to the number of seven, as food with beans, they help those who are afflicted with a quartan ague, if they be eaten before the accession of the fit.”—Med. Dict.

[920.] An excellent method, Ajasson remarks, of adding to the tortures of the patient.

[921.] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xxix. 17. Bostock and Riley’s Trans., v. 393.

[922.] Med. Dict.

[923.] Theatr. Ins., p. 270–1. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts, p. 1098.

[924.] Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 157.

[925.] London Labor and the London Poor, iii. 36–9.

[926.] Annals of Nat. Hist. Simmond’s Curiosities of Food, p. 308–311.