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

[1054.] Jamieson’s Scottish Dict.

[1055.] D’Israeli, Curios, of Lit., i. 339.

[1056.] Gent. Mag., xxxii. 208.

[1057.] Stedman’s Surinam.

[1058.] Hist. of Barbados, p. 65.

[1059.] Hist. of Brazil, i. 326.

[1060.] Vol. i. p. 128.

[1061.] Pers. Narrative, E. T. v. 101.

[1062.] Bayle, iii. 484. Southey’s Com. Place Bk., 4th S. p. 439.

[1063.] Bernal Diaz’ Conquest of Mexico, i. 394, note 54. This story, no doubt, is founded on something like truth, and most probably these bags were filled with the Coccus cacti, the Cochineal insect, then unknown to the Spaniards, who might have easily mistaken them in a dried state for Lice.