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

Moufet’s Theatr. Ins., p. 208. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1052.

[1089.] Qua supra, p. 685.

[1090.] Qua supra, p. 689.

[1091.] Ibid., p. 207. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1051.

[1092.] Ibid., p. 754.

[1093.] Andrew’s Anecdotes, p. 427.

[1094.] Nat. Hist., xi. 25. Pliny here probably alludes to the Panorpis, or Scorpion-fly, the abdomen of which terminates in a forceps, which resembles the tail of the Scorpion.

[1095.] Nat. Hist., xi. 25.

[1096.] “Scorpion’s tail.” Dioscorides gives this name to the Helioscopium, or great Heliotropium.

[1097.] Nat. Hist., xxii. 29.