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

[1098.] “Two.”

[1099.] Nat. Hist., xxviii. 5.

[1100.] The red arsenic of the Greeks was called by this name.—Matthiol, vi. 81.

[1101.] This prescription is given at the present day in Italy and the Levant.

[1102.] Zoroaster also mentions this. Vide Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 194.

[1103.] Pliny relates the same story, Nat. Hist., xxviii. 10 (42); also Zoroaster, qua supra.

[1104.] Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 146–8.

[1105.] Moufet’s Theatr. Ins., 210–215. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 1053–7.

[1106.] Campbell’s Travels in S. Africa, p. 325.

[1107.] Nat. Hist., viii. 29 (43).