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

[1118.] Autobiog., Lond. 1858, p. 304–5.

[1119.] Prescribed by Galen, Pliny, Lanfrankus, etc.

[1120.] Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 757.

[1121.] So also Manardus.—Moufet, p. 210. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1053.

[1122.] Ibid.

[1123.] Asiatic Miscellany, ii. 451.

[1124.] Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 755–6.

[1125.] Topsel’s Trans.—Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 1058.

[1126.] Chronicles, i. 385.

[1127.] Keddie’s Cyclop. of Anecd., p. 288.