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

[1177.] Emblems, p. 375.

[1178.] Blackmore, Prince Arthur.

[1179.] Quot. in the Athenæum, v. 126.

[1180.] Jamieson’s Scot. Dict., iv. 138.

[1181.] Keightley’s Fairy Mythol., p. 514.

[1182.] Microgr., p. 202. It has been objected, say Kirby and Spence, to the excellent primitive writer, Clemens Romanus, that he believed the absurd fable of the phœnix. But surely this may be allowed for in him, who was no naturalist, when a scientific natural philosopher could believe that the clouds are made of Spiders’ web!—Introd., ii. 331, note.

[1183.] James’s Med. Dict.

[1184.] Ibid.

[1185.] James’s Med. Dict.

[1186.] Harris’s Coll. of Voy. and Trav., ii. 586–7.