[73] Plin. Hist. Nat. Lib. XXVIII. ch. 2. p. 447. Ed. Hard.
[74] Cael. Aurelian. Chron. Lib. I. ch. 5. p. 335. Ed. Amman.
[75] Democritus and Theophrastus made mention of it. See Gell. Noct. Attic. Lib. IV. ch. 13.
[76] Ferdinand. p. 260.
[77] Bagliv. loc. cit. p. 618. From more decided statements, however, we learn, that of those who had been bitten only one or two in a thousand died. Ferdinand. p. 255.
[78] Il carnevaletto delle donne. Bagliv. p. 617.
[79] Ferdinand. pp. 254. 260.
[80] Ferdinand. p. 259. Slow music made the Tarantel dancers feel as if they were crushed: spezzati, minuzzati, p. 260.
[81] A. Kircher, loc. cit.
[82] See Appendix, No. V.