Volume 1 / Book 3 — GENERAL INDEX

Names of men of learning will be found for the most part in the bibliographical index.

Aaron, 357, 379, 464, 507

Abacus, 698, 704

Abbreviation, 135, 500, 624

Abdomen, diseases of, 577

Abimelech, 399

Abortion, 61, 94

Abraham the patriarch, astrology and science of 350, 353, 355, 411, 703;

magic use of name of, 437, 449, 726

Abraxas, 371, 379

Abrotonum, an herb, 495

Abscess, 93

Abstinence from animal food, 295, 308, 314

Academy, the, 268, 270, 602

Accusation of magic against, Galen, 125, 165-7;

alchemists, 194;

Apuleius, 222, 232-40;

Apollonius of Tyana, 246;

the emperor Julian, 318;

Jews, 337, 436-9;

Christ and Christians, 337, 383, 395-6, 415, 424, 433, 436-9, 463, 465, 505;

pagans, 415;

philosophers, 416;

heretics, 415, 424;

Origen, 461;

Priscillian, 380-1, 519-20;

Libanius, 538;

Bede, 635;

Gerbert, 704-5;

Constantinus Africanus, 744, 755;

Dunstan, 773

Achilles, ghost of, 264;

master of, 597

Aconite, 74, 171

Acorn, 740

Acoustics, 185

Acron, 56

Adalbert, bishop of Bremen, 773

Adam, first man, 681

Adamant, 81, 294, 636;

swords of, 253, 258;

breakable by goat’s blood, 56, 85, 511, 588, 779;

by lead, 657

Adder, 279, 721

Adonai, 365, 367, 451, 583, 726

Adrianaion, 434

Adultery, discovery of, 364, 644

Advertising, 186

Aeetes, 329

Aegina, 86, 301

Aelian, a consul, 262

Aemilianus, 224

Aeon, 363-4, 378, 383, 411

Aerimancy or Aeromancy, 344, 629

Aesculapius, shrine of, 283, 329, 379;

and see other index

Aetites, a gem, 257, 329, 330, 581, 777

Affroselinum, 765

Agate, 294, 721

Agathodaemon, 173, 292, 379, 587, 661;

and see other index

Aglaides, 431

Aglaonice, 203

Agnus castus, an herb, 756

Agnus Dei, 737

Agricultural magic, 21, 70, 79-80, 93-4, 216, 219, 294, 604-5, 626

Ague, 536

Air, importance of pure, 142, 151;

pressure of, 188;

experiments with, 190-2;

and continuity of universe, 206;

star in, 478

Albicerius, 518

Alchemy, Egyptian, 12-3;

Greek, 59, 131, 193-200, 320, 544-5, 764;

Pliny, 81, 193;

Arabic and Latin, chap. xxxiii, 368, 398, 649, 663-4, 669-70, 697, 757, 773

Alcmaeon, 324

Alcohol, 468, 765

Alcoholism, 253

Alexander the Great, chap. xxiv, 186, 496, 602;

and see other index

Alexander of Abonutichus, 277-8

Alexander V, pope, 106

Alexandria, as a center of ancient learning, 27, 39, 48, 105, 109, 123, 145, 187, 224, 291, 318, 348, 449, 541, 552, 763;

dissection at, 147;

measures of, 144;

relations with India, 245;

in the

pseudo-Clementine Homilies, 404, 408

Alexandrina, golden, 739

Alexandrinus Olympius, 300

Alive, taken from, 580, 591;

burned, see Crab

Allectory, a gem, 779

Allegory and allegorical interpretation, in alchemy, 195-8;

of the Bible, 350, 479, 484, 633;

in zoology, 396, 500, 502;

miscellaneous, 545, 626;

and see Symbolism

Almanac, 318

Almond, 78

Aloaeus, see Eloeus

Alphabet in magic and divination, 197, 370, 380, 592, 664, 711;

and see Vowel

Alphabetical order, 166, 176, 606, 610

Alpheus, river, 102

Altar, 80, 239, 295, 378

Alum, 765

Amazons, 114, 564, 603

Ambassador, see Embassy

Amber, 49, 213

American Indians, 16-17

Amiantus, a gem, 81, 213

Ammon, the god, 546, 553, 561-2

Ammon (or, Hammon), King of Egypt, 291

Ammonia, 571

Amnael, an angel, 195

Amor aquae, 764

Amulet, Egyptian, 10;

in Pliny, 70, 77, 81, 85, 87, 89, 92;

in Galen, 166, 172-3, 176;

in Plutarch, 204, 294;

Gnostic, 380;

Aristotle represented as an adept in, 563;

post-classical and early medieval medicine, 572, 580, 755;

Arabic, 655-6;

and see Ligatures and suspensions

Amusements, ancient, 137, 486

Anaesthetics, 142, 626

Anastasius, Pope, 461

Anatomy, of Galen, 145-51;

Empirics hostile to, 157;

of Rasis, 668

Andrew, St., legend of, 435

Andronicus, the prefect, 542

Anemone, 65

Angel, see Spirit

Angitia, 329

Anglo-Saxon, manuscripts, chap. xxix, 597, 612-3;

medicine, chap. xxxi

Angobatae, 188

Animal, incapable of magic, 4;

in early Greek religion, 23;

habits, intelligence, jealousy, and remedies employed by, 26, 57, 73-5, 217-8, 254, chap. xii, 460, 490, 574, 626;

use of parts of, 11, 20, 67-70, 75-6, 87, 133, 167, 229, 587, 606, 721, 740, 755, 766;

living in fire, 240;

sacred, 311;

minute, 275;

in art, 502;

breeding and horoscopes of, 516;

and see Abstinence from animal food, Gods, Language, Sculpture, Transformation, and the names of individual animals

Anise, 229

Annacus, king, 340

Annunciation, 263

Anonymity, 133, 728

Ant, 71-2, 75, 81, 98, 329, 331;

Indian, 636

Anthemius of Tralles, 575

Anthropology, 300

Anthropos, Gnostic, 380

Antichrist, 417

Antidote, 130, 154, 253, 441, 494

Antimony, 735

Antioch, 254, 296, 404, 421, 428, 431, 472, 662, 747

Antipathy, 84, 173, 213, 217, 219, 239, 581, 605

Antiphon, an interpreter of omens, 562

Antipodes, 219, 480-1

Antiscia, 537

Anubion, 420

Ape, 148, 256;

and see Cynocephalus

Apelles the painter, 55

Apollo, 23, 93, 212, 253, 294, 317, 326, 371, 429, 735

Apollobeches, 58

Apollonius of Tyana, chap. viii, 165, 244, 288, 295, 390, 435, 465

Apoplexy, 536

Apothecary, 84, 129

Apparatus, magical, 28, 190;

and see Magic, materials

Apparition, 66, 68, 204, 208, 215, 437-8, 455, 496, 509-10, 779;

and see Spirit

Appion, 419-20;

and see Apion in other index

Appius, friend of Cicero, 270

Applied science, ancient, chap. v, 408;

early medieval, chap. xxxiii

Aquila, disciple of Peter, chap. xvii

Aquileia, 124

Arab, Arabia, and Arabic, early poetry, 6;

drugs and spices from, 84, 129, 765;

Apollonius of Tyana in, 261, 295;

magic of, 280;

home of the Magi, 476;

learning, 31, 159, 174, 189, 578, chaps. xxviii, xxx, xxxii;

and see Middle Ages, Translations

Arcadia, 214, 249, 283

Archiater, 125, 161, 536

Architecture, 122, chap. v

Archon, see Spirit

Arcturus, 331, 636

Arena, 133, 147;

and see Gladiator

Areobindus, a consul, 607

Arethusa, 102

Argemon, an herb, 79

Ariolus, 629

Aristochia, an herb, 615

Arithmetic, 126, 319, 619, 628, 704

Armenian, 351, 374, 497, 554

Arms and armor, 344

Aromatics, 311;

and see Spice, Unguent

Arrow, extracted, 756;

poisoned, 767

Art and the Arts, magic and, 6, 28;

standards of, 187, 407;

early medieval, chap. xxxiii;

and see Artisan and the names of various arts

Artemis Tauropolos, 429

Artemisia, 89

Artery, 147

Artisan, 482, 486

Aruspex, see Haruspex

Asbestos, 213-4, 434

Ascension, of Romulus, 274;

of Simon Magus, 422

Ascetic, see Monasticism

Asclepius, a god, 253, 277, 546, 735;

and see other index

Ash, tree, 86

Ashes, reduced to, 68, 80, 91, 170, 571-4, 581, 586-8, 590, 721

Ashthroat, an herb, 722

Asp, 57, 85, 324, 494, 571, 580, 587, 626

Asparagus, 599

Asphalt, 132, 574

Asphodel, 88

Ass, 76, 88, 230, 275, 326, 367, 734, 740

Assurbanipal, 15, 27

Assyria, magic of, 11, 15-20, 58, 295, 629;

bibliography, 33-5

Astanphaeus, 365, 367

Asthma, 76

Astral theology, 15, 17, 360-1;

and see Astrology, Star

Astrolabe, 115, 501, 542, 559, chap. xxx, 728

Astrological medicine, 179, 575, 633, 738

Astrology, chaps, iii, ix, xi, xv, xxix, xxx;

also, Egyptian, 13-4;

Sumerian or Chaldean, 15-7,

and see Chaldean;

Greek, 22, 25-6;

Pliny, 91, 94-7;

popular Roman, 127, 285;

Galen, 127, 166, 178;

Greek philosophy and, 180-1;

Vitruvius, 184-5, 187;

Hero, 193;

alchemy and, 197;

Plutarch, 207, 209;

Apuleius, 231, 239-40;

Brahmans, 253;

Lucian, 282-3;

Nechepso, Petosiris, and Manetho, 292-3;

Solinus, 330;

Horapollo, 333;

Hermes, 290-2;

Enoch, 340-1;

Philo Judaeus and Jewish, 353-6;

Pseudo-Clement, 410-3;

church fathers, 444, 455-8, 464, 466, 471-5, 492;

Augustine, 513-21;

Firmicus, 529-38;

Pseudo-Quintilian, 540;

Synesius, 543;

Nectanebus, 560-3;

Alexander of Tralles, 583;

Herbarium of Apuleius, 598;

Geoponica, 604-5;

Boethius, 621-2;

Isidore, 632-3;

Arabic, 644-52, 661-6, 670;

Salernitan, 738;

Constantinus Africanus, 756;

Marbod, 781-2;

alchemy and, 763;

magic and, 300, 432, 464, 538, 540;

and see Christ, birth of; Image; Magi; Planet; Star

Astronomy, of Egypt, 13, 542, 545, 559;

Tigris-Euphrates, 15-6, 34;

India, 31;

Greek, 31-2;

benefits of, 47, 96;

of Ptolemy, 105, 107;

and architecture, 122, 185;

history of, 366, 707;

miscellaneous, 219, 395, 520, 536, 663, 704

Atavism, 141

Atheism, 234

Athens, 28, 95, 142, 217, 230, 249, 429;

as center of learning, 135, 200, 222, 242, 269, 277, 538, 541, 602

Athlete, 186, 248, 486

Atlas, Mt., 54

Atom, Atomic theory, Atomism, 140, 169, 178, 205, 408

Attalus, king of Pergamum, 135, 171

Attalus III, 236

Augury, in Assyria, 17;

Rome, 95;

Seneca, 103;

Galen, 171;

denied

by Atomists, 178;

accepted by Stoics, 180;

Neo-Platonists, 315;

Jews and early Christians on, 352, 458-9, 466, 511, 513, 534, 630;

miscellaneous, 560, 629, 673, 705

Auspices, 430, 629

Authority and Authorities, attitude to, citation by, Pliny, 46, 49, 75;

Ptolemy, 107;

Galen, 118, 152-8, 167;

Vitruvius, 186-7;

Zosimus, 198;

bogus, 215;

Cicero, 270;

Solinus, 327-8;

Hippolytus, 469;

Firmicus, 537;

Aëtius, 570;

Marcellus, 585-6;

medieval freedom with, 611;

Macer, 614;

Isidore, 624-5;

Petrocellus, 734;

miscellaneous, 32, 215, 778

Automaton, 188, 192, 230, 440

Axle-grease, 92

Baal, priest of, 386

Babel, 453

Babylon and Babylonia, 11, 14-21, 23-4, 31, 33-5, 95, 97, 227, 239, 247-8, 266, 283, 360-1, 376, 383-4, 414, 527, 537, 652, 661, 744

Bagdad, 661-2, 667, 744, 762

Balaam, prophet or magician? 267, 352-3, 385, 445-8, 459;

and the Magi, 385, 444, 474, 479, 519

Balach or Balak, 447

Baldness, 536

Balis, an herb, 75

Balsam, 392, 738

Baptism, 368, 373, 405, 408, 432

Barbarians, 148, 376, 445, 449, 619, 638

Barbarossa, see Frederick I

Barber, 229

Barcelona, 699

Barefoot, 599

Barley, 88;

water, 143

Baroptenus, a gem, 81

Barrocus, an herb, 615

Basilica at Fano, 187

Basilides, the heretic, 372

Basilisk, 67, 70, 75, 169, 494, 573, 603, 626, 636;

and cock, 324, 771

Basilius the magician, 639

Basin, 560

Bat, 68-9, 159, 331, 587

Bath, 142-3, 281, 587, 676, 729;

public, 140, 295, 434-5;

sea, 231-2, 405

Battle predicted, 275

Bayeux Tapestry, 502, 675

Bean, 591

Bear, 75, 92, 219, 367, 490;

licks

cubs into shape, 168, 177, 331;

constellation of the, 179

Beard, 416

Beast, name of the, 582

Beasts, wild, 216, 229, 564, 669;

dealers in, 133

Beauty, 300, 486

Beaver, 502, 636;

castration of, 231, 332, 574

Bed-bug, 68, 85, 89, 175

Bee, 76, 85, 219, 615, 636, 721;

and see Honey

Beech tree, 213

Beetle, 81, 219, 581

Behbit el-Hagar, 559

Behemoth, 346-7, 367

Bektanis, 559

Bell, church, 722

Bellerophon, 282

Bell’s palsy, 738

Belt, see Girdle

Bemarchius, rival of Libanius, 538

Berenice, 463, 558

Beryl, 780

Bethlehem, star of, see Christ, birth of; Magi, who came to Christ child

Betony, 77, 86, 737

Bibliography, of Pliny, 46, 215;

Isidore, 623;

Peter the Deacon, 746

Bile, 171, 177

Bird, 73, 78, 80, 201, 218, 236, 325, 460, 544;

rite of strangling, 301;

mechanical, 192, 266;

and see Augury and the names of individual birds

Birth-control, 94

Birth-mark, 713

Bishop, 542

Bishopwort, 722

Bitumen, 571, 574, 603

Bituminous trefoil, 175

Black, 68, 175, 582, 591

Bladder, 536, 599, 769

Bleeding, 75, 125, 141-2, 162, 177, 576, 676, 679, 681, 684-5, 688, 724, 728, 735, 737-8

Blind, 536, 590

Blood, miraculous, 231;

human, use of, 61, 102, 175, 227, 581, 603, 629, 721;

human, and the moon, 98, 146, 391;

circulation of, 409, 430;

of various animals used, 86-7, 89, 131, 159, 166, 175, 587, 590, 727, 729, 737, 766-7;

and see Adamant, Bleeding, Hemorrhage

Blotch, 640

Boar, 69, 92, 580, 599

Boëthus, 134

Boil, 88

Bones, stuck in throat, 71, 583;

number in body, 372;

prehistoric, 407;

use of, 573, 583, 656

Book, trade in Roman empire, 134-5;

magic, 432, 435, 472, 505, 705;

loss of, 752

Bordeaux, 568

Borellus, duke, 704

Botany, 20, 65, 129, 343, 463;

and see Herb

Box, 229, 250

Boy, in divination and magic, 81, 239, 249, 416-9, 463;

and peony, 173

Bracelet, 81, 89

Brahmans, 248-54, 258, 266, 376, 407, 410, 412, 450-1, 556, 564

Brain, center of nervous system, 145-6;

cavities of, 659-60, 735;

inflammation of, 536;

of various animals used, see names of individual animals

Bread, 89, 424;

blessing and breaking, 727

Breastplate of high priest, 495

Breath and breathing, 134, 146, 207, 658

Brindisi, 764

Britain and Briton, 59, 141, 206-7, 376, 489

Bronze, 764

Buddha, 251

Bugloss, viper’s, an herb, 722

Buglossa, an herb, 615

Bull, 79, 86, 168, 261, 367, 599, 765-6;

tamed by fig-tree, 77, 213, 332, 626

Bulrush, 92

Buprestis, 77, 494

Burial, magic, 69-70, 80, 88, 662, 666;

alive, 421

Burned to death, 433, 571, 639

Business, 97, 107, 128, 248, 666;

early Christian attitude to, 494

Butter, 154, 721-2

Byzantine, 189, 194-5, 323, 398, 482, 555, 569, 607, 732, 745, 761-2

Cabbage, 86, 175

Cabbala, 7, 365

Caesarea, 404-6

Cairo, 8

Calchas, 271

Calculus, 536

Calendar, 13-4, 327, 345, 676, 686, 712

Calf, 150, 571

Caligula, emperor, 193, 349

Caliph, 607, 653, 670, 745

Camaleon, 600;

and see Chameleon

Camel, 396, 636

Campus Martius, 424-5

Canal, Isthmian, 262

Candelabrum, 380

Candle, magic, 87, 380, 385, 469

Candlestick, seven-branched, 385, 676

Cannibal, 61-2, 573

Canute, king, 351

Carolingian, 616, 635

Carpenter, 393

Carpesium, a drug, 132

Carpocrates, a heretic, 371

Cart rut, 81, 88-91, 721

Carthage, 222, 269, 553, 744

Carton, 129

Carystus, 213

Cask, 767-8

Caspian Sea, 489

Castoria, 739

Cat, 68, 636

Cataract, in eye, 175, 729

Catarrh, 82, 88-9, 142, 176

Caterpillar, 80

Cathedral, 501-2, 761

Catochites, a gem, 330

Caul of an ox, 469

Cauldron, 468

Cauterization, 536, 723

Cecrops, 415

Cedar, 20

Celidonius, see Swallow-stone

Celt and Celtic, 245, 567-8, 722, 732

Cemetery, 434

Cenchrea, 136

Centaur, 603;

and see Chiron in other index

Centipede, 76, 494, 587

Cerberus, 280

Ceremonial, Egypt, 10;

Assyria, 18, 20;

Pliny, 64, 69, 71, 77-82, 90;

Apuleius, 230, 235;

Orphic, 295;

rite of strangling birds, 301;

Gnostic, 378;

Marcellus, 590-2;

Arabic, 663;

medieval medicine, 726;

and see Herb, plucking of; Spirit, invocation of; etc.

Chalcite, 132

Chaldean (mostly mere mentions of), 16-7, 98, 102, 185, 201, 230, 239, 250, 253, 272-4, 279, 281, 287, 316, 323, 353, 375-6, 380, 399, 430,

444, 456, 469, 476, 479, 519, 560, 632, 703, 711, 744

Chalkydri, 347

Cham, see Ham

Chameleon, 62, 175, 581

Chance, experience, 36, 75, 156, 172, 754;

and fate, 210

Chaplet, 295

Characters, magic use of, 229, 257, 314, 317, 512, 579, 592-3, 604, 630, 645, 654, 724-30

Charicles, 232

Chariot, 423

Charlatan, 668-9;

and see Old-wives

Charlemagne, 214, 556, 672, 764

Charon, 277

Chastisements, 204

Chastity, 78, 81, 83, 204, 216, 295, 308, 326, 564, 581, 588, 590, 599, 799-80;

and see Virgin

Cheese, 142, 325, 509

Chelidonia and Chelidonius, see Swallow-wort and Swallow-stone

Chelonitis, a gem, 780

Chemical and Chemistry, 132-40, 467-9;

and see Alchemy

Chick, 76, 754, 771;

Aristotle on embryology of, 30, 146

Chickpea, 88

Child-bearing and Child-birth, 76, 78, 84, 87, 92, 94, 102, 175, 177, 216, 253, 260, 295, 325, 496, 581, 685, 713, 726, 738, 740;

formation of child in womb, 150, 545, 557, 757;

child born after eight months dies, 181, 356, 757;

monstrous birth, 627;

and see Abortion, Birth-control

Chimaera, 367

China and Chinese, 6-7, 214;

and see Seres

Chiromancy, 386

Chneph or Chnuphis, 379

Chrism, 738

Christ, 137-9, 243, 363, 379, 386, 404-5, 422, 510, 527, 529, 620, 674-5, 782;

accused of magic, see Accusation;

birth of, and astrology, 386, 438, 457, 464, 471-9, 703;

birth, virgin, 460;

child, chap. xvi, 390;

power of name of, 434, 452, 466, 638-9, 725, 729-30

Christian and Christianity, Book II, passim; 137, 139, 207, 275-6, 285, 296, 298, 306, 312, 320, 327, 554, 568, 584, 602, chap. xxvii,

642, 715;

and see Religion, Theology

Christmas, 678

Chronology, 135, 209, 624, 711;

and see Calendar

Church fathers, Book II, passim, 180, 225, 241, 302, 618

Cicada, 169

Cinaedia, 590

Cinnabar, 626, 761, 764

Cinnamon, 129-30, 256

Circe, 21, 65, 324, 434, 509, 629

Circle, magic, 78, 86-7, 91, 197, 281, 366, 599;

squaring the, 706;

Cardan’s concentric, 769

Circumcision, 449, 475, 781

Circus, 295, 486

City, fortune of, predicted, 273, 283;

ancient, 489, 504;

ideal, 349-50, 460

Civilization, magic and origin of, 5-6;

Pliny as source for history of, 43

Clairvoyance, 647;

and see Divination, natural

Clarus, 224

Classical heritage, 555, 618, 636;

and see Middle Ages

Classics, superstition in, 21-4

Claudia, 55

Clay, animals, 393, 769;

and see Pottery

Climate, 184

Cloak, virtue of, 397, 435

Clock, see Time

Clothing, virtue in, 136, 295, 382, chap. xvi, 407, 441, 534, 598, 666;

and see names of various articles of

Clyster, 142

Cock, 168, 175, 320, 324-5, 766, 771, 779;

cock-crow, 280, 405

Cog-wheel, 192

Cold, quality, 140, 161, 219;

drink, 141;

disease, 589

Colic, 87, 169, 579, 582, 590

Cologne, three kings of, 446, 477

Colonus, 638

Colony, Greek, 318

Color, discussed, 140, 486;

changing, 216;

in magic, 90, 367, 369, 590, 721;

and see the names of individual colors

Combustible compounds, see Candle

Comedy, Greek, 22-4

Comet, 96, 115, 457, 543, 633, 635, 673

Commodus, emperor, 125, 129

Compass, points of, 91, 114, 378, 586, 591, 724

Compotus or Computus, 536, 676-7, 728

Compound, magical or medicinal, 10, 83, 140, 152, 159-60, 172, 571, 586-7, 722, 734

Conception, 562, 656, 724, 740

Condrion, an herb, 74

Confederate, in magic fraud, 467

Conjunction, astrological, 104, 642, 648-9

Conjuration of an herb, 583;

and see Incantation, Spirit, invocation of

Consecration, of a painted grape, 80;

of gems, 295, 781;

and see Holy

Constantine the Great, 525ff.

Constantine Monomachos, 745

Constantine Porphyrygennetos, 604

Constantius, emperor, 525ff.

Constans, emperor, 525ff.

Constantinople, 472, 477, 494, 533, 541;

and see Byzantine

Constellation, 14, 114, 178, 304, 709

Constipation, 779

Consumption, 213, 373, 536, 588

Cook, 148

Copernican theory, 32

Copperas, 467

Coptic, 361, 377

Coral, 656

Cordova, 704, 762

Corinth, 123, 136, 230, 262, 280

Corn extracted, 71

Corpse, 147, 229, 309, 629, 780;

and see Necromancy, Resurrection

Cosmetics, 152, 668

Cotton, 252

Couch, 561

Cough, 88, 176

Counter-irritant, 723

Cow, 77, 79, 81, 85, 325, 769

Crab, and snake, 99;

river, use of eye of, 68-9;

burned alive, 80, 178;

use of ash of, 170, 572;

stone in head of, 737

Crane, sentinel, 217;

windpipe of, used in magic, 278, 467

Craw-fish, 217

Creation, 16, 346, 408, chap. xxi, 504-5, 627-8;

position of stars at, 711, 713

Credulity and scepticism, chap. ix;

in Pliny, 50-1, 61-4, 67, 70, 77, 80-1, 88, 98;

Galen and the Empirics, 157-8, 168-9, 175;

Seneca,

102-3;

Plutarch, 204, 212-3;

other cases, 225, 244, 255, 388, 440, 491-2, 539, 573-4, 626, 637, 655, 671, 780

Crete, 129, 135, 249, 260

Cricket, 67, 737

Crime and criminal, 147, 167, 171, 207, 225, 581;

and see Magic, evil and criminal; Sin

Critical days, 158, 161, 164, 179-80, 356, 756

Crocodile, 74, 166, 218, 238, 280

Cropleek, 722

Cross, nail from, 280;

in sky, 475;

sign of, 432, 434, 466, 638-9, 722

Crow, 207, 314, 324, 409, 636, 655

Cruelty, 136, 225

Crystal, 294, 767

Cube, 184

Cuckoo, 81

Cummin seed, 93

Cuneiform, 15

Cup, Joseph’s divining, 386

Cupping glass, 192

Curlew, 217

Curse, 28, 93, 366, 434

Cynics, 277

Cynocephalia, an herb, 67

Cynocephalus, 70, 333

Cyprus, magic of, 59;

oil of, 68;

Galen’s visit to, 131-2

Cyrene, 541

Dacian, 597

Daedalus, 283

Daily life, magic in, 9-10, 20;

experience from, 54

Danish, 612

Dardanus, a magician, 58-9, 463, 558

Darius, 256, 260

“Dark Ages,” 618

Date, the fruit, 20

Date, discussed of, Ptolemy, 105;

Hero, 188;

Greek alchemists, 193-4;

works of Apuleius, 222-5;

Solinus, 326-7;

Horapollo, 331;

Enoch literature, 341-2;

apocryphal Gospels, 388-9;

Pseudo-Clementines, 404-6;

Physiologus, 497-9;

Augustine, 504;

Mathesis of Firmicus, 526-7;

Synesius, 541;

Pseudo-Callisthenes and Julius Valerius, 552-5;

Aëtius, 570;

Marcellus, 584-5;

early medieval pseudo-literature, 594-6;

Macer, 612-3;

Thebit, 661;

introduction of Arabic alchemy, 773;

and see Calendar,

Chronology, Compotus, Creation, Easter

Day, observance of, lucky and unlucky, 14, 21, 106, 383, 513, 582, 588, 590, 592, 661, chap. xxix, 721, 725, 727, 754;

and see Critical; Egyptian; Moon, day of; Planetary week

Dead Sea, 138

Deaf, 536

Decans, 178, 291, 315, 376, 453

Deendor, a magician, 780

Deer, 68, 70, 74, 84, 94, 207, 294, 324, 586, 734

Degree, academic, 619;

medical, 751-2

Delirium, 536

Delphic oracle, 201, 266, 283, 326, 538, 582

Demeter, 429

Demigod, 546

Demiurge, 212, 383

Demon, see Spirit

Dentistry, 12;

and see Tooth

Depilatories, see Hair

Deroldus, bishop, 733

Desert, herbs in, 54

Desiderius, abbot, 747

Design, argument from, 139, 148, 408, 490

Desire, as a factor in magic, 644

Deucalion, 341

Devotio, see Curse

Dew, 102

Diacastoria, 739

Diadochos, a gem, 780

Diagram, 366-7, 674

Dialectic, 420, 439, 536

Diana, 130

Dice, 136, 486

Dick, Mr., 64

Dictamnon, see Dittany

Dictation, ancient, 45, 134

Dictionary, 599, 624

Dictynna, 249

Die, 582;

and see Dice

Diet, 98, 137, 142, 159, 282, 414, 429, 577, 587, 668, 684, 735

Digestion, 137, 205, 585

Dinocrates, 186

Diocletian, emperor, 194

Diomedes, 330

Dionysius, an Egyptian, 440

Dionysus, the god, 251, 546

Dioptrics, 108

Dipsas, a snake, 172, 284, 494

Direction, observance of, in magic, 90-1, 666;

and see Compass, Right, Left

Disease, 25, 98, 150, 208, 219, 310, 430, 434, 536;

magic transfer of, 19, 61, 71, 79, 213, 588-9;

and see Spirit, Woman, and the names of individual diseases

Dissection, 88, 134, 146-8, 164, 581, 746

Dittany, 218, 495

Dives and Lazarus, 448

Divinatio, a disease, 755; and see 150-1

Divination, chaps. ix, xxix, 86, 127, 143, 165, 180, 253, 285, 533, 539-40, 713;

varieties listed, 560;

in China, 6-7;

Egypt, 13;

Tigris-Euphrates, 17;

India, 251;

relation to magic, 5, 14, 17, 60, 226, 233, 295, 432, 512, 543, 629;

by divine revelation, 205, 249, 314, 364, 533,

and see Prophecy;

by demons, 442-3, 510, 546;

natural, 103, 205, 239, 305, 314, 318-9, 419, 518, 542-3;

by animals, 315, 325-6, 490,

and see Augury;

by eating parts of animals, 70, 257, 314;

by boys, 249, 418-9, 463;

by enthusiasm, 180;

by herbs, 66, 77, 614;

by drinking or inhaling, 313;

by Kalends, 677, 684;

by lots, numbers, names, 112, 679, 682, 711, 713,

and see Lot-casting;

by polished surfaces, 774;

by sounds, 313, 430;

by stones, 70;

by symbols, 166;

by winds, 676, 678;

and see Aerimancy, Cup, Dream, Geomancy, Haruspex, Hydromancy, Knot, Liver, Moon, Omen, Pyromancy, Sacrifice, Sieve, Selenomancy, Thunder

Dog, kennel, 69;

jealous, 75;

puppyhood, 150;

omens from, 231;

prescience of, 325;

as symbol, 367;

demons as, 435;

and mandragora, 607;

torn to pieces by, 277, 425;

to stop bark or attack of, 77, 216, 249, 424, 605;

disease transferred to, 88, 590-1;

use of parts of, 68, 70, 89, 90, 159, 168-9, 573-4, 737, 755;

mad, and bite of, 68, 82, 86, 131, 169, 178, 259, 263-4, 284, 373, 391, 572, 656, 713, 754

Dog-days, 572, 728, 756, 765

Dogmatism, 154, 159, 735

Dog-star, 66, 98, 178, 604

Dolphin, 55, 218, 260

Domitian, emperor, 249-50, 259-65

Door, used in magic, 71, 591;

affected by magic, 226-7, 314, 449;

trap, 469

Dorians, 219

Dositheus, 365, 417

Dove, 142, 168, 324, 332, 636, 740

Draconites, a gem, 75

Dragon, 75, 231, 257, 326, 367, 392, 429, 561, 603, 766;

use of parts of, 68, 70;

combat with elephant, 74, 257, 626;

flying, 347

Dragontes, an herb, 614

Drama, and magic, 22-3, 324;

liturgical, 476-7

Dream and divination from, in Egypt, 13-4;

in cuneiform texts, 17;

Pliny, 56, 81;

Galen, 123, 154, 156, 166, 170, 177-80;

Plutarch, 204, 205;

Apuleius, 231;

Apollonius, 260;

Lucian, 283;

Neo-Platonists, 314, 545;

Philo, 354, 358;

Pilate’s wife, 395;

Origen, 459;

Nectanebus, 560-2;

Alkindi, 646;

miscellaneous, 197, 329, 412, 434, 437, 459, 463, 487, 509, 534, 627, 671, 680-1, 720, 754, 763, 779

“Dream-senders,” 368

Dropsy, 69, 213, 536, 779

Drugs, 55, 61, 84, 89, 128, 132, 370, 467, 561, 668

Druid, 46, 59, 67, 79, 640

Drum, 204, 313

Dualism, 361, 409

Duck, 87-8

Dung, 68, 69, 86, 166, 168, 588, 656, 734, 740, 769

Dye, 324, 467, chap. xxxiii

Ea, a god, 18

Eagle, 87, 90, 176, 217, 257, 325-6, 332, 441, 496, 574, 636

Ear, 536

Earache, 169, 579, 755

Ear-wax, 721, 769

Earth, appeased, conjured, personified, and deified, 66, 79, 86, 251, 295, 583, 598;

virtue of, 81, 88, 592, and see Cart rut, Terra sigillata;

things not allowed to touch the ground, 70, 79, 81, 173, 582, 588;

sphericity of, 480;

miscellaneous, 211, 373;

and see Burial, Land and Water, Underground

Earthquake, 97, 101, 250, 254, 264, 271, 430, 469, 562

Earthworm, 68-9, 89, 176, 573-4, 587, 720

Easter, 521, 677;

mystery of, 677

Ebionites, 405

Ebony, 560

Echeneis, 212, 491, 626

Eclipse, 96, 98, 203-4, 209, 262, 333, 386, 564, 673

Editions, especially early printed, Pliny, 53;

Ptolemy, 106, 110;

Galen, 119;

Solinus, 326;

Firmicus, 525;

Pseudo-Callisthenes and Julius Valerius, 551-2;

Letter of Alexander, 555;

post-classical medicine, 566-7, 577;

Herbarium of Apuleius, 597;

Ethicus, 601;

Geoponica, 604;

Dioscorides, 606-10;

Macer, 612;

Isidore, 623;

Latin translations from Arabic, 642, 649ff., 653, 657, 665, 668, 716;

Regimen Salernitanum, 736;

Constantinus Africanus, chap. xxxii;

treatises on arts, 760;

Marbod, 775, 778

Education, as experienced or discussed by, Galen, 118-28;

Vitruvius, 187;

Plutarch, 200-1;

Apuleius, 222-4;

Lucian, 277;

Christ child, 394;

Cyprian, 429-31;

Firmicus, 525;

Synesius, 540-1;

Bede, 634-5;

Rasis, 667;

Gerbert, 704;

Constantinus, 744;

Dunstan, 773;

Marbod, 775

Eel, 491

Egg, shell, 54;

test of freshness, 55;

made by hiss of snakes, 67;

addled by certain men, 83;

so-called, of alchemy, 198;

goose, 277;

filled with dye, 467;

portents from, 562, 773;

raw, 729

Egypt, 7-14, 27-8, 30-1, 193-5, 198, 206, 228-30, 239, 248, 250, 287, 289, 300, 325, 331-4, 360, 376, 379, 391, 414-6, 430, 437-8, 446, 450, 452, 459, 503, 527, 537, 543, 558-60, 598, 744;

and see Plagues of

Egyptian Days, 14, chap. xxix, 728

Elchasaites, 373

Elections, astrological, 372-3, 386, 517

Electrum, 590

Elements, various theories of, 25, 139, 157, 218, 254, 382, 408, 410, 478, 485, 488, 528-9, 622, 645, 720;

not found in a pure state, 140, 489

Elephant, intelligence of, 73, 75, 169, 218, 256, 636;

habits, 213, 322, 324, 332, 460;

dissection of, 148;

compared with fly, 408;

white, 763;

and see Dragon for combat with

Elephantiasis, 57, 170, 572

Eleusinian mysteries, 101, 148

Elijah, 386, 555

Elixir, 670

Eloeus, 365, 367

Eloi, 583

Elymas the sorcerer, 461

Elysian fields, 207

Embalming, magic in, 8

Embassy, of Philo, 349; Synesius, 541;

Leo, 557

Embryology, see Chick, Child-birth

Emerald, 434, 656, 772

Emperor, Roman, 47, 50, 124, 129-30, 135, 176, 186, 194, 529;

and see names of individual emperors

Empiric, Empirica, Empiricism, 56-7, 155-7, 172, 735, 754

Empousa, 310

Empyrean, see Heaven

Enceladus, 254

Encyclopedia, ancient, 43;

Arabic, 663;

medieval, 52, 569

Endor, witch of, 385, 448, 464, 469-71, 506, 509-10, 629, 635

Entrails, see Intestines, Liver divination

Ephesus, 259-62

Ephod, 448

Epic, 16, 18

Epicurean, 138, 150, 283, 408, 441

Epidaurus, 329

Epilepsy, 69, 87, 90, 173, 235, 238, 536, 578-81, 614, 723, 726, 730, 735-6, 754-6, 779

Epitome, 495, 554-5, 568-9, 594, 603ff.

Er, vision of, 212

Erataoth, a spirit, 367

Eretrians, 260

Eridu, 15

Erigeron, an herb, 89

Erystion, an herb, 598

Essenes, 405

Ether, 254, 373;

and see Heaven

Ethics, 602

Ethiopia and Ethiopic, 141, 245, 256, 283, 327, 341, 345, 398, 435, 498, 554, 558-60, 654, 658, 744

Etruscan, 467, 630

Etymology, 625

Eucharist, 369

Eucrates, 280-1

Eugenianus, 133

Eugenics, 414

Eumeces, a gem, 81

Euphrates, a philosopher, 246, 253, 263;

and see Tigris-

Eustachian tube, 576

Evangelists, four, 502, 674, 721

Eve, 350, 511, 681

Evil, problem of, 305, 309, 349;

eye, see Fascination

Evolution, doctrine of, 149, 493

Ewe hop plant, 722

Excommunication, 542

Excrement, human, 74, 143, 573;

and see Dung

Exercise, physical, 587

Exorcism, 18, 24, 280, 299, 368, 386, 435, 533-4, 682, 722

Experience, Experiment, Experimental method, and magic, 57, 431-2, 447, 469, 540;

in Pliny, 53-7, 83, 88;

Ptolemy, 106-7;

Galen, 118, 121, 144-63, 169, 173, 175, 179;

Vitruvius, 187;

Hero, 190;

Greek alchemists, 198;

Plutarch, 213;

Apuleius, 237;

Simon Magus, 420-2;

Firmicus, 532;

post-classical medicine, 569, 573, 578-80, 583-7;

Dioscorides, 606;

Macer, 615;

Arabic, 644-6, 657, 669;

early medieval medicine, 734-5, 738, 753-4;

arts and alchemy, 762, 765-70;

and see Empiric, Observation

Eye complaints and cures, 56, 82, 87, 98, 166, 175, 289, 325, 490, 496, 536, 586, 589-90, 640, 670, 720, 755, 779;

evil, see Fascination

Eyebrow, 151, 159, 175

Eyelash, 92, 151

Facies, astrological, 710, 716

Faith, requisite in magic, 644

Falernian wine, 132, 586

Familiar spirit, see Spirit

Family, 300

Famine, 603

Fascination, 71, 83, 217, 294, 324

Fasting, 78, 82, 93, 174, 593, 705

Fat, 67, 91, 130, 168, 755

Fate, 181, 240, 306, 310, 315-6, 353, 375, 620

Fates, three, 210, 565

Faust, Faustus, or Faustinianus, 404, 406, 413, 417

Feather, 70, 236

Fee, physician’s, 670, 684, 688, 740

Fennel, 722;

tasted by snake, 74, 490, 626

Fern, 80, 769

Festival, 22, 107

Fever, 18, 49, 65-6, 71, 89, 91, 141, 536, 569, 575, 668, 720, 727, 759;

and see Quartan, Tertian

Fibula, 301

Fifty, 356, 383

Fig-tree, see Bull, tamed by

Figure, 709-10;

human, 723;

and see Image, Mannikin, Statue

Fili, Irish, 640

Finger, middle, 589, 592;

use of two, 583

Fire, the element, 88, 229, 310, 417;

marvelous, 252, 256, 368;

at Rome in 192 A. D., 125, 134;

universal, 104;

not burned by, 416

Fire engine, 192

Firmament, see Heaven;

Waters above the

First-born, 581

Fish, 30, 49, 74, 77, 218, 236-7, 260, 325-6, 469, 589, 636, 657, 756

Five, 92, 169, 357, 383, 590

Flea, 605

Float, 192

Flood, 16, 340, 475, 493

Florilegia, 618

Fluxion, 583

Fly, insect, 76, 175, 408

Flying, 397;

of Simon Magus, 416-7, 422-7

Foam, of snake, 67;

horse, 70, 86, 589

Folk-lore, 300, 567, 587, 722-3, 732

Foot, 580;

and see Barefoot

Form, 487, 542

Fossil shells, 493

Fotis, 229

Fountain, marvelous, 102, 318, 347, 546, 769

Four, 91, 356, 674-5, 728, 767

Fox, 80, 89, 90, 168, 490

Franklin, Benjamin, 414

Frederick I, Barbarossa, emperor, 477

Free-Masonry, 183

Free will, see Will

Frenzy, 755

Frog, 68, 80, 90, 92, 159, 168, 231, 491, 508, 588, 591, 656

Fruit, 85, 142, 599, 724

Fumigation, 69, 282, 512, 740, 779

Funeral, 214

Furnace, 81, 393, 434, 657, 764

Future life, 8, 25, 47;

and see Soul, immortality of

Gabriel, angel, 343, 367, 447, 452, 454

Gagates, a gem, 154, 495, 724, 779

Gaia Seia, 599

Galactis, 294

Galactites, 329

Gall, 68, 71, 587, 726, 764-6

Gall nut, 467

Games, Greek national, 186, 201

Ganges, 258

Garamantica, a gem, 97

Garlic, 213, 722

Gas, 55, 142

Gate, city, 591, 600

Gaudentius, 404

Gaul, 46, 76, 92, 568, 597, 672, 776;

and see Druid

Gazelle, 68, 70, 87

Gehenna, 367

Gem, Assyrian, 20;

Pliny, 68, 70-1, 80-1;

Apollonius, 254-8;

Orphic, 293-6;

Gnostic, 27, 378-80;

Pseudo-Plutarch, 216;

Solinus,328-9;

St. John and, 398;

Origen, 460;

Epiphanius, 495-6;

Augustine, 511;

in medicine, 590;

Pseudo-Dioscorides, 611, 654;

Geoponica, 605;

Isidore, 626-7;

found in animals, 75, 294, 603, 737, 740, 755, 772, 779;

Marbod, chap, xxxiv;

and see Consecration;

Image, engraved on;

and names of individual gems

Genealogical table, 624

Generation, spontaneous, 86, 219, 238, 324, 509, 511;

of various animals, 408-9, 460;

in fire, 102, 324;

human, 211;

and corruption, 210;

ruled by stars, 97;

organs of, used in magic, 11, 68-9, 356;

and see Child-birth, Conception, Eugenics, Private parts

Genethlialogy, 115, 273, 353, 412, 456, 513, 517, 560, 622, 629, 703, 708, 781

Genius, see Spirit, orders of

Gentiles, 479, 674, 771

Geocentric theory, 32, 105, 488

Geography, discussed by Pliny, 43-4;

Ptolemy, 105-7;

Philostratus, 244;

Solinus, 327;

other ancient, 488;

Ethicus, 600-4;

other medieval, 707

Geology, 493

Geomancy, 314, 343, 629, 648, 685

Geometry, 122-3, 126, 185, 318, 536, 542, 619, 663, 70

Gerard, archbishop of York, 689, 782

Germ of disease, 219

German, invaders, 148, 351;

language, 498, 728;

scholarship, 15-6, 30-1, 350, 684

Germany, 45, 557

Ghost, 233, 263, 280, 455, 540, 705;

and see Necromancy;

Endor, witch of

Giant, 254, 407, 430

Girdle or ungirded, 69, 87, 284, 512, 599

Girl, magic power of, 216;

and see Virgin

Githrife, an herb, 722

Gladiator, 124, 149, 581, 673

Glass, Egyptian, 12;

Roman, 590, 762;

medieval, 729, 764-7;

gems of, 781;

and see Stained

Glaucon, 143, 161

Glossopetra, a gem, 98

Glue, 765

Gnostic and Gnosticism, chap. xv, 197, 211, 290, 298, 305, 360, 397, 405, 411, 472, 547, 584, 661, 720

Goat, 69, 87, 130, 168, 213, 218, 256, 325, 367, 467, 490, 581-2, 729, 755, 759, 765-9;

and see Adamant and blood of

Goblet, 258

God and gods, antiquity of belief in, 5-6, 203;

animal, 14, 283, 503;

celestial, 14, 17, 25-6, 289, 309, 530;

and nature, 409; and man, 206, 208, 254, 274, 416;

and Roman emperors, 130, 529;

and art, 486;

and magic, 8, 230, 235-6, 249, 312, 320, 543;

Pliny concerning, 47, 97;

Seneca, 103;

Galen, 139, 151, 167, 180;

Plutarch, 210;

Gnostic, 362, 375;

Christian attitude to pagan, 317;

Firmicus, 527-30;

Boethius, 621;

name of, 599;

winged, 301;

and see Apollo and other individual names of gods, Christ, First cause, Trinity, etc.

Goetia, 22, 247, 250, 505

Gold, 69, 78-81, 215, 257, 301, 325, 386, 590, 599, 739, 755; chap. xxxiii;

and see Alchemy

Gonorrhoea, 536

Goose, 168, 301

Gorgon, 301

Gothic art, 501-2, 761

Gout, 81, 142, 277, 284, 571, 575, 579-81, 755

Grafting, 55

Grain, 325

Grammar, 535, 596, 612, 625

Grasshopper, 491

Gravitation, 481

Greece and Greek, magic, 20-8, 58;

science, 28-32, 46-7, 51, 62, 64;

culture, 274, 283;

animals, 73;

language, ancient, 154, 186, 222-3, 377, 420;

language, medieval, 331-2, 625

Greek church, 397, 735

Greek fire, 256-7

Griffin, 257, 325

Grimoald, abbot, 613

Groin, 71, 590

Ground, see Earth, Underground

Gruel, 142

Guadalquivir, 254

Gull, 159

Gum, 468

Gyges, 257

Gymnosophists, 247, 251, 260, 564

Gynecology, see Women, diseases of

Hades, see Underworld

Hadrian, emperor, 136, 200, 244, 318

Hail, see Weather

Hair, 69-70, 81, 151, 159, 176, 581;

net, 175, 213;

tonic, 738

Halcyon days, 255, 491

Halicacabum, 77

Hallucination, 509

Ham, son of Noah, first magician, 414

Hand, laying on of, 386;

and see Left, Right

Handkerchief, 213, 386

Hangman’s noose, 71

Hare, 159, 169, 253, 580

Harewort, 722

Harp, magic, 773

Harran, 661-2

Haruspex, 95, 104, 511, 513, 534, 629

Hathor goddesses, 14

Hatto, bishop of Vich, 704

Hawk, 74, 314, 332, 561

Hawkweed, 74, 332

Hazel rod, 725-6, 730

Head, habit of inclining, 659;

magical speaking, 662, 705

Headache, 18, 71, 92, 175, 591

Hearsay, 585

Heart, physiology of, 30, 146-9, 153, 737;

used in medicine and magic, 70, 89, 727

Heat and Hot, 140, 142, 161, 175-6, 191;

and see Qualities

Heathen, see Pagan

Heatherberry, 722

Heaven and Heavens, one or many? 16, 345, 363, 365, 372, 382, 459, 487-8, 709;

empyrean, 484;

and see Music of spheres, Star, Universe, Waters above the firmament

Hebdomad, sacred, 16, 365, 380

Hebrew, 554, 577-8, 709, 711, 749;

and see Jew

Hecate, 215, 280

Hedge, 91

Hedge-hog, 325, 502, 734

Hedgerife, 722

Helen, Simon’s, 363-5

Helena, empress, 477

Helenus, seer, 294

Heliocentric theory, 32, 97

Heliotrope, an herb, 65, 87, 636

Hell, see Underworld

Hellebore, 74, 490, 636

Hellene and Hellenism, 20-1, 245, 541

Hellenistic, 16, 22, 30-2, 39, 51, 183, 189, 288, 294

Hemlock, the poison, 490

Hemorrhage, 536, 576

Hen, omen from, 231

Henbane, 722

Hera, goddess, 429

Heracles, 251, 546, 582

Heracleidae, 541

Herb, Egyptian, 10;

Assyrian, 19-20;

Greek, 23;

Cretan, 129;

sacred, 76, 178;

Anglo-Saxon, 722;

Pliny, 54-7, 65-7, 76-9;

Galen, 154, 167;

Plutarch, 215-6;

Apuleius, 229;

Orphic, 295-6, 429-30;

Gnostic, 371;

Nectanebus, 561, post-classical medicine, 583, 591;

Herbarium of Apuleius, 597-9;

Pseudo-Dioscorides, 606;

Macer, 614-5;

used by animals, 324-5, and see Animals, remedies employed by;

conjuration of, 583;

plucking of, 57, 65, 93, 160, 173, 252, 291, 583, 614, 626, 721, 724, 727, 729

Herbal, 596-9

Herbalist, 79, 128

Hercules, see Heracles

Heredity, 75, 253; and see Atavism

Herefridus, 635

Heresy, chap. xv, 488, 494, 507-8

Hermesias, a compound, 84

Hermogenes the magician, 435

Hero, a kind of spirit, 180-1, 309-10, 469, 546

Herod the king, 473, 479

Heron, 218, 324

Hind, 279, 721

Hippomanes, 324

Hippopotamus, 75, 169

History and Historians, relation to this investigation, 201;

Roman, 14, 94, 96, 201, 602;

omens and portents in, 14, 675;

attitude to, of Empirics, 156;

Vitruvius, 185;

Lucian, 285-6;

Cicero, 274;

Horapollo, 333-4;

of medicine, 153, 156, 735;

of philosophy, 180;

of astronomy, 537, 707;

of alchemy, 195;

ages of, 383, 648, 675, 709;

astrological interpretation of, see Conjunctions, Planets, Magnus Annus;

quantitative method and source-analysis in, 533ff.;

medieval attitude to, 617;

harlequins of, 359

Holy Ghost or Spirit, 363-4, 372, 397, 447

Holy salt, 722, 727

Holy wafer, 729

Holy water, 434, 721, 724, 727, 735

Honey, 66, 68, 70, 76, 129, 142, 229, 295, 599;

Attic and Hymettus, 132

Honoratus, 638

Hoopoe, 324

Horaeus, 367

Horn, 496, 586, 599, 722;

magic drinking, 191, 255

Horoscope, 14, 115, 209, 315, 516, 532, 560, 630

Horse, 55, 70, 86, 168, 589, 722, 730, 767;

and see Mare

Horus, 195

Hour, observance of, 712, 714, 726

House, astrological, 114, 397

Household magic, 9, 69;

and see Door, Threshold, Wall, etc.

Human body, symmetry of, 184, 519;

eight parts of, 452, 720;

use of parts of, 61, 81, 167, 229, 573;

and see Blood; Sacrifice, human;

Saliva, Sweat, etc.

Humanism, 20, 338

Humors, 536, 738

Hyacinth, a gem, 496, 656

Hydromancy, 233, 505, 629, 779-80

Hydromel, 79

Hydrophobia, 56, 169, 171, 496, 574;

and see Dog, mad

Hydroscope, 542

Hydrostatic balance, 761

Hyena, 67, 69-70, 332, 396, 587, 605, 728

Hymn, 18, 23, 317-8, 374, 433, 441, 640

Hypatia, 541

Hyperborean, 280, 413

Hyphasis, river, 256

Hyrcanian Sea, 488

Ialdabaoth, 367, 383

Iao, Iaoth, etc., 367, 379-80, 583

Iarchas the Brahman, 251ff.

Ichneumon, 74, 218, 575

Idolatry, 421, 433, 452, 475, 603;

and see Image

Ikhnaton, 9

Illuminated manuscripts, 498, 502, 547, 597, 676, 746

Image, engraved and astrological, 173, 267, 292, 316, 443, 579, 582, 645-6, 664-6;

Apuleius’ wooden, 233;

Egyptian mannikins, 8;

sacrificial, 261;

mystic seal, 367, 378, 382;

of wax, 10, 19, 25, 560-3;

other magic, 10, 19, 236, 280, 314, 344, 441, 769

Imagination, power of, 644, 660

Iman, doctrine of the hidden, 356

Immortality, see Soul

Impotence, 391

Incantation, antiquity of, 6;

Egyptian, 8, 12-4;

Assyrian, 17-9;

in Pliny, 69-72, 79, 88, 92-4;

Galen, 166, 173-4;

Apuleius, 230, 233, 239;

other classical authors, 25, 253, 257, 279-81, 314;

Gnostic, 299, chap. xv;

Jewish and early Christian, 352, 398, 418-9, 437, 442-3, 449-50, 463, 492, 510, 512;

pseudo-literature and post-classical medicine, 537, 560-1, 568, 573, 579-83, 588-93, 598-9, 605;

Arabic, 654-5;

early medieval, 596, 626-9, 675, 696;

in medicine, chap. xxxi, 754, 759;

alchemy, 769-70;

old Irish, 640;

and see Words, power of

Incense, 722

Incest, 475, 754

Incubus, 574

India, chap. viii;

science of, 31;

drugs from, 84, 132;

home of Magi, 476-7;

marvels of, 325-6, 496, 564, 756;

occult science of, 652-6, 710, 763;

miscellaneous, 503, 744

Indigestion, 779

Industry, and magic, 12, chap. xxxiii

Infant, exposure of, 147;

ailments, 69, 169, 615

Ink, invisible, 467

Innocent III, pope, 759

Insanity, 216, 536, 585, 755, 779;

and see Frenzy, Lunacy, etc.

Insomnia, 90

Instruments, scientific, 107, 751;

and see Musical

Intent, as a factor in magic, 644-6

Interrogations, astrological, 713-4

Intestines, 87-8, 175, 409, 414, 592

Inventions, 44, 149, 187-9, 426, 604

Invisible, to become, 71, 251, 416, 562, 638, 640;

writing, 265

Invocation, see Necromancy and Spirit

Iris, 132

Iron, magic use of, 66, 69-71, 81, 89, 213, 765, 769;

taboo of, 78, 81, 92, 614;

oxide of, 130;

quenching hot, 713, 756

Isaac the patriarch, 437

Ishmaelite, 711

Isis, goddess, 195, 223, 280, 300, 546, 559

Island, floating, 102

Ismuc, 183

Israel, twelve tribes of, 495

Istria, 601-2

Itacius, bishop, 381

Italian Renaissance, see Renaissance

Italians and Italy, 184, 557

Iunx, 265-7

Ivory, 301, 599

Ivy, 767-8

Jacob the patriarch, 354, 358, 444;

and Esau, 369, 479, 514

Jambres, Jamnes, or Jannes, the magician, 59, 431, 461

James, brother of Jesus, 392, 401, 403, 405

James the Great, St., 434-6

Jannes the magician, see Jambres

Jared, and magic, 415

Jasper, 294, 572

Jaundice, 49, 217, 536

Jealousy, see Animal, and Professions, learned

Jeremiah, legend of, 399

Jerusalem, 393, 399, 415, 423, 477

Jesus, see Christ

Jew and Jewish, 219, 434, 436, 465, 474-5, 583, 746, 762, 773, 781;

magic, 59, 437-9, 449;

religion, 137;

tradition, 473

Jewelry, 301;

and see Gem

John the Baptist, 364, 737

John, duke of Campania, 557

Jonathan, 471

Joseph the patriarch, his coat of many colors, 352, 358;

divining cup, 386;

dream, 354, 358, 385

Joseph, father of Jesus, 393

Joseph, mentioned by Epiphanius, 434

Judea, see Palestine

Judas Iscariot, 391

Juggler, 230, 312-3, 352, 437

Juliana Anicia, 606

Juno, goddess, 546

Jupiter, planet, 97, 184

Justina, 431-3

Karnak, 559

Khîrgeh, 559

Kid, 393

Kidney, 294

King, prediction for, 17, 66;

to gain favor of, 19, 67, 71, 89, 294;

magic power of, 83, 476, 479;

and alchemy, 13, 195

Kiss, 88, 391, 589

Knife, 545, 722, 727;

surgical, 149

Knot, in divination, 7;

other magic, 19, 25, 66, 69, 71, 592, 661

Kruno, a star, 346

Labartu, 18

Laboratory, 228

Lacedaemon, 429, 602

Ladder, 368

Laelius, 274

Lamb, 561, 769

Lamia, 263

Lamp, 129, 380;

experiment with, 55;

inextinguishable, marvelous, etc., 192, 214, 231, 239;

and see Candle

Land and water on earth’s surface, 54, 105, 254, 488

Language of birds and beasts, learning, 257, 261, 294-5, 430

Laodicea, unguent of, 133

Lar, 80, 546

Laser, a simple, 83

Laurel, 229, 324, 332, 424, 571, 588

Lavinian grove, 326

Law, and magic, 2, 6, 95;

Roman, 167-8, 224, 233-4, 277, 527, 568;

of nature, 272, 350, 530-1;

Mosaic, 395, 459;

national, 376;

early German, 593;

a medieval lawsuit, 688

Lead, 657, 757, 764;

application of, 574, 590;

glazing, 762;

tablets, 28, 366, 724

Leaves, falling, effect on dreams, 206

Lebadea, 249

Lectionary, 476

Lecture-notes, 134

Leech, 724

Left, hand etc. used or preferred, 65-6, 78, 82, 88, 90, 92, 173, 216, 231, 325, 332, 580, 583, 591-2, 722, 726

Legends of saints, chaps. xvi, xviii, 637;

and see names of individuals

Legislation, 2, 25, 59, 95, 126, 194, 293, 415, 505;

and see Law

Lentils, 369

Lemnos, 130-2, 154, 242, 264

Lent, 678

Leopard, 256

Leprosy, 171, 219, 390, 392, 536

Letter, see Alphabet, Vowel

Lettuce, 639

Lever, 192

Leviathan, 346-7, 367

Levitation, 251-2, 394, 427

Libanotis, an herb, 495

Libation, 431

Libraries, ancient, 15, 27, 125, 134-5;

medieval, 617-8, 743

Ligatures and suspensions, 65, 68, 70-2, 80, 89-90, 94, 173, 175, 204, 279, 294, 572, 579, 591, 598, 611, 614, 654-6, 726, 729-30, 740, 755-6, 759;

condemned, 512, 630

Light, 191, 488, 720;

and see Radiation

Lightning, 71, 95, 102, 738

Ligusticum, 613

Like cures like, 68, 86, 94

Lily, 68

Linen, use of, 88, 90, 230, 249, 260, 378, 560, 581, 598

Liniment, 586

Lion, habits and traits, 74, 256, 319, 326, 332, 367, 394, 636;

roar of, 491;

use of parts of, 67, 70, 168, 279, 726, 755;

whelps of, 255, 491;

amours of lioness, 74;

figure of, 582;

made by magic, 215;

lion-faced, 364

Liparaios, a gem, 295

Litany, 721

Liturgy, 398, 476

Liver, disease, 536, 591;

divination, 17, 25, 249, 272, 313, 318, 430, 458, 466

Lizard, 68, 92, 238, 324, 494, 574, 581, 589-91

Logic, 154-5, 157-9;

magic, 10-1, 72, 214

Logos, doctrine of, 350

Loigaire, king, 640

Lollianus Avitus, 223

Lollianus Mavortius, 525ff., 537

Longevity, 141, 170, 176, 207, 537

Looking around, 591

Loosing bonds, etc., 265, 416, 449, 779

Lord’s Prayer, 598, 721, 724-6, 729-30, 736

Lot-casting, 77, 112, 539, 727;

and see Geomancy and Sortes sanctorum (other index)

Lotapes, a magician, 59

Lot’s wife, 583

Love charms and potions, 22, 76, 94, 201, 215, 217, 236, 258, 295, 368, 370

Lucifer, 636

Lucius, hero of Golden Ass, chap. vii

Lucius Verus, emperor, 124

Lucullus, 94, 201

Lumbago, 90, 175

Luna, goddess, 236, 417;

and see Helen, Simon’s

Lunacy, 536, 727, 754;

and see Insanity

Lung, 148, 536, 727

Lupin, 722

Lutheran, 447

Lychnis and Lychnites, a gem, 257, 295

Lycia, 154, 325, 765

Lycurgus, 283

Lynx, 81, 325, 620

Lyre, 356

Macedon, 278, 560

Machine, 182, 187;

and see Mechanical

Maerotis, lake, 349

Magi, in Pliny, 64-72, 80, 84;

of Persia and the east, 228, 235-6, 247, 250, 266, 295, 352, 416, 450, 763;

who came to the Christ child, 372, 396, 443-4, 471-9, 506, 518-9, 730

Magic (only leading passages where magic in general is discussed under that name are here included), preliminary definition, 4-6;

primitive, 5-6;

Egyptian,

7-12;

Babylonian and Assyrian, 15-9, 33;

Greek and Roman, 20-8;

Pliny, 44, 58-64;

Plutarch, 203;

Apuleius, 234-7;

Philostratus, 247-50;

Neo-Platonists, 299-300;

Enoch, 343;

Philo, 352;

heretics and Gnostics, 361;

church fathers, 414-20, chap. xix, 466-9, chap. xxii;

Nectanebus, 560;

Isidore, 628-30;

Alkindi, 643-6;

as an art or discipline, 312, 420, 443;

relation to science and medicine, 60-64, 236, 312, 330, 432, 511, 534-5, 644;

use of materials, 65-70, 441, 508;

procedure, 68-71, 506;

false and illusive, 61, 418, 423-4, 431-2, 440, 464-8, 509;

evil and criminal, 61-2, 313, 344, 377, 431-2, 439, 505, 539, 543;

good or natural, 235, 352;

marvelous results, 66-7, 70-1, 506;

reality of, 506;

history of, 58-9, 414-5, 628-9;

immunity from, 440, 448-9

Magnet, 81, 85, 213, 469, 511, 581, 636, 644, 657, 668, 765, 780

Magnus annus, 26, 180, 210, 333, 372, 384, 456, 543

Majoram, 490

Maleficium, 234-5, 381, 506, 603, 629

Mambres, a magician, 461

Mana, 6

Mandaeans, 383-4, 450

Mandragora, 22, 231, 258, 597, 607, 626, 740

Manes, a kind of spirits, 546

Manes or Mani, founder of Manicheism, and Manicheism, 381-2, 398, 409, 513

Mansions of moon or sun, 693, 713, 715

Mantike, 259;

and see Divination

Manuscripts, of Pliny, 51-2;

Ptolemy, 106, 108-10;

Galen, 134-5;

Gentile da Foligno, 164;

Greek alchemy, 194-6;

Apuleius, 241;

Aelian, 322;

Solinus, 326-8;

Hermes and Enoch, 291, 340;

Manichean, 383;

Apocrypha, 387-9;

Recognitions, 401ff.;

Basil and Ambrose, 484;

Physiologus, 498ff.;

Firmicus, 532;

and Book III passim

Maps, 107, 114, 707

Marble, 729

Marcus Aurelius, emperor, 124-5, 130, 148

Marcus the heretic, 369-70

Marcus of Memphis, 381

Mare, 87, 324, 332, 511

Marinus, duke of Campania, 557

Market-place, magic of, 437, 440

Marriage, 685, 688

Mars, planet, 78, 97, 184

Marsi, 172, 511

Martin of Tours, St., 381

Martyr and Martyrdom, 428, 433, 512, 555

Mary Magdalene, 364

Mary, Virgin, 390, 724

Mass, sacrament of, 13, 722

Mathematical method, 107

Mathematics, 154, 535-6

Mathematicus, 464, 513, 532, 534, 632, 717, 781

Mathesis, 411, 632, 704

Matter, 111, 199, 305, 309, 349, 487, 542, 643, 763

Mavortius, see Lollianus

Maximilian II, emperor, 607

Maximus, emperor, 381

Meal, 314;

evening, 482

Measles, 668

Measurement, 144;

and see Instruments, Time

Meat offered to idols, 452

Mecca, 337

Mechanical devices and toys, 167, 426;

Applied Science; see Bird, mechanical; Machine

Mede and Medea, 21, 65, 215, 295, 324, 329, 780

Medicine, chaps. iv, v, xxxi, xxxii, 289, 535-6, 542;

Egypt, 10-2;

Babylonian and Assyrian, 18;

and magic, 25, 70,

and see Magic;

Pliny, 72;

Greek, 318;

Apuleius, 221, 237;

Brahmans, 252-3;

Lucian, 279, 284;

Solinus, 329;

church fathers and theologians, 460-3, 593, 617;

and see Animal, remedies employed by; Astrological; Compound; Disease; History; Pharmacy; Poison; Simple; etc.

Medicine man, 5, 227

Medinet Habu, 559

Medium, 297, 467

Medulla, 660

Mela, see Taxo

Melancholy, 137, 536, 756

Melanteria, 132

Melothesia, 712

Memory, 303, 660

Memphis, 198, 430

Menander the heretic, 368, 421

Menippus, 263

Menstrual fluid, 82, 369, 573

Merchant, 214, 245, 710

Mercury, god, 233, 236, 630,

and see Hermes;

metal, 764,

and see Quicksilver;

planet, 318, 383

Meroë, a witch, 226

Merovingian, 616, 672

Mesraim, first magician, 414

Messiah, 355, 383

Messina, 445, 710

Metal and Metallurgy, 44, 102, 198, 346, 463, 767;

and see Alchemy; Planets and; and the names of individual metals

Metamorphosis, see Transformation

Meteor, 103

Meteorology, 44, 636

Methodism, in medicine, 155, 735

Michael, an angel, 367, 447, 452

Michael, bishop of Tarazona, 652

Microcosm, 382, 411, 530, 633, 709, 712

Midday, see Noon

Middle Ages, influence in, of Pliny, 51-3, 56, 73, 85, 595, 628, 635;

Seneca, 100;

Ptolemy, 109;

Galen, 161, 180, 572-4;

Hero, 188;

De placitis philosophorum, 180;

Apollonius, 267;

Solinus, 326;

early Christian literature, 338;

Enoch, 340-2;

Philo, 351;

Apocrypha, 389-90;

Simon Magus, 427;

legends of saints, 435;

Basil, 484;

Physiologus, 497ff.;

Augustine, 504;

Alexander legend, chap. xxiv;

post-classical medicine, 571, 576-8, 584;

Ethicus, 601-4;

Dioscorides, 606-12;

Boethius, 618-20;

Isidore, 623, 630-1;

Arabic learning, 646, 663, chap. xxx, 732;

Constantinus Africanus, 743, 754;

Greek learning, 734;

and see Classical heritage; Greek, medieval; Textual history; Translation

Midnight, 248

Milan, 477

Mildew, 80

Milesian tales, 225

Milk, cow’s, 229, 295;

woman’s, 82, 175, 587, 729, 759, 763;

other, 721, 767

Milk-stone, 294

Milo, 779

Milt, see Spleen

Mind, 210, 531, 654

Mine and Mining, 132, 142, 344

Mineralogy, 606

Minerva, 79

Minotaur, 603, 636

Mint, wild, 57

Miracle, 8, 327, 541, 637, 686;

distinguished from magic, 242, 265, 387-8, 417, 437-9, 465, 505;

by heretics, 507-8

Mirror, 180, 236, 417, 468, 644;

and see Divination by polished surfaces, Optics

Missal, 759

Misy, 132

Mistletoe, 23, 79

Mithra, 368, 429

Mithrobarzanes, a magician, 281

“Modern,” 717

Mohammed and Mohammedan, 139, 337, 356, 445, Chap. xxviii, 688

Mole, 63, 67, 70, 80-1, 88, 409, 494, 587

Monastery, Monasticism, and Monk, 505, 637-9, 679

Monkey, 148

Monreale, 427

Monster, 627

Mont, temple of, 559

Montaster, an herb, 598

Monte Cassino, 597, 610, 743ff.

Month, specified, 585, 588, 590, 676, 685-9, 728, 737, 774;

and see Moon, observance of

Montpellier, 109, 741

Monument, 565

Moon, addressed, 727;

affected by magic, 203, 225, 280, 308, 468, 492;

controls generation and corruption, 210, 219, 354, 633, 708;

day of the, 79, 572, chap. xxix;

duration of, 180, 702;

and Easter, 521;

observance of, 69-71, 78, 80, 90-1, 98, 178, 216, 283, 322, 324, 333, 364, 539, 580, 582, 590-2, 598-9, chap. xxix, 720, 724, 729, 756, 780;

relation to other planets and to the signs, 179, 211;

spots on, 354;

size of, 488;

and see Bleeding, Luna, Selene, Tide

Moon-earth, 765

Moon-god, 382

Moon-stone, 250

Moon-tree, 564

Moralizing, 101, 490, 638

Mortar, pounded in a, 82, 765

Mortuary magic, 8-9

Mosaic, 367, 427, 764

Mosaic law, see Law

Moses, see other index

Mother, goddess or Great, 216, 360

Mouse, 23, 80, 166, 175, 213, 325, 491, 587, 737;

field-, 98, 279;

shrew-, 76, 86, 88

Mountain, marvelous, 346-7;

magnetic, 756;

affected by magic, 226, 416

Mule, 88, 183, 390, 589, 736

Mullein, 490

Muscle, 145, 150, 580

Muses, 371

Mushroom, 219

Music, 319, 325, 534, 619, 744;

and magic, 6;

and medicine, 124;

and architecture, 185;

of the spheres, 26, 184, 193, 371, 487, 544, 622

Mutton-fat, 722

Mycenaean art, 301

Myriogenesis, 537

Myrmecia, a gem, 166

Myrrh, 586, 765

Mysia, 216

Mysteries, 139, 216, 221, 223, 243, 245, 248, 317, 360-1, 368, 377, 428-9;

and see Eleusis, Mithra

Mysticism, 211, 254-5, 677, 763

Mythology, and magic, 8, 21;

and astrology, 16, 282-3;

miscellaneous, 211, 215, 282, 294, 327, 407, 415-6, 545-6, 620

Nail, metal, 78, 81, 87, 90, 280, 581, 722

Nail parings, toe and finger, 71, 581

Names, see of Christ and God, and Words, power of

Nannacus, see Annacus

Nard, 169

Nativities, 25, 95, 104, 115, 185, 471, 559-60, 632, 679, 712

Nature, Pliny on, 42, 46-7;

Seneca, 101;

Galen, 150-1;

as a teacher, 155;

Plutarch, 210;

in contrast to fate, 375

Neck, stiff, 737

Necromancy, 21, 197, 228, 233, 264, 270, 280, 300, 419, 466, 539, 629, 705;

as proof of immortality, 416;

relation to science, 744

Nectabis, 463

Nectanebo or Nectanebus, chap. xxiv, 391, 463, 516, 704

Needle, copper, 590;

eye of, 396

Nektanebes, Nekht-Har-ehbet, Nekhte-nebof, 558-9;

and see Nectanebus

Neo-Latin, 732, 757

Neo-Platonism, chap. xi, 116, 208, 296-7, 349, 540, 544-5, 661

Nero, emperor, 61, 171, 201, 260, 262, 423-5, 553, 585

Nerva, emperor, 244

Nerve and nervous system, 145-6

Nestorian, 554

Nettle, 636, 768

Neuri, 330

Nias Island, 170

Niceta, a character in the Recognitions, chap. xvii

Nicias, 22, 204

Niello, 769

Night-shade, an herb, 581

Night time and magic, 68, 78, 129, 224-6, 234

Nigromancy, see Necromancy

Nikon, father of Galen, 122

Nile, 102, 179-80, 198, 254, 559;

horses, 169

Nimrod and magic, 413

Nine, 88, 371, 590, 592, 598, 721, 727

Nineveh, 243

Nitrate, 772

Nitro-muriatic acid, 772

Noah’s ark, 20;

and see Flood

Noon, 248, 755

Norman and Normandy, 427, 745

Nose, 576, 589

Notebook, 45-6;

and see Lecture notes

Notory art, 267

Nude and Nudity, 83, 93, 295, 565, 588

Numa, king, 274, 505

Number, observance of, and theory of perfect, 26, 69, 91, 178, 212, 258, 273, 317, 355-7, 370, 373, 383, 430, 441, 521, 544-5, 621, 627, 675;

and see Five, Four, Nine, Seven, Ten, Three

Numitor, king, 602

Nymph, 546

Oak, 493

Oath, 430

Obelisk, 558

Obscenity in magic and medicine, 61-2, 167-8, 204, 207, 236

Observation, Pliny, 48, 53-4;

magicians, 64-5;

Ptolemy, 105, 107, 110, 112;

Galen, 156;

reputed Chaldean, 95, 316;

Dioscorides, 606;

and see Experimental method

Obstetrics, see Child-birth

Occult virtue, discussions of and

references to of a general character, in Egypt, 10;

Pliny, 64-5, 75-6, 81, 89;

Galen, 169-70;

Vitruvius, 183;

Plutarch, 212-3;

Neo-Platonists, 304, 307, 311, 320, 542-3;

Brahmans, 257-8;

Marbod, 778-81;

miscellaneous, 441, 454, 468-9

Ocean, 489

Ocimum, an herb, 93

Oculist, 284, 670

Odor, foul, 536

Odysseus, 264, 281, 509, 629

Oea, 222ff.

Oil, 68, 90, 92, 130, 142, 154, 168-9, 171, 175, 213, 256, 373, 572, 606, 724, 779

Ointment, see Unguent

Old-wives, 166, 204, 234, 250, 272, 586;

and see Witch

Olybrius, emperor, 606

Olympias, mother of Alexander, 560ff.

Olympic games, 22, 102

Olympus, Mt., 198, 296, 429

Omens and portents, 14, 92, 178, 201, 231, 251, 254, 260, 318, 430, 471, 543, 560, 562, 675

One, Once, for the first time, 82, 92, 210, 582

Onesiphorus, 396

Onion, 20

Onoel, a spirit, 367

Ophites, a marble, 87

Ophites, a sect, 365, 383

Opium, 724

Opobalsam, 128

Optics, 108, 218, 237, 276, 669

Oracle, 21, 95, 203, 206-7, 253, 278, 295, 318, 432, 442, 466, 534, 627

Oratory, 535, 776

Ordeal, 386, 468, 759

Oreites, a gem, 295

Orestes, 324

Oreus, 365

Organ, musical, 187-8, 192

Oriental attitude, exaggerated estimate of, 20-1, 388

Originality, 569, 575, 616

Origanum, an herb, 218

Origenists, 461, 519

Oromazes, a magician, 236

Orphic rites, 296, 429

Osiris, 13, 196, 223, 233, 546

Ossifrage, 87

Ostrich, 636

Ouroboros, the encircling serpent, 197, 763

Owl, 63, 68, 70, 253

Ox, 468, 722, 755

Oxford, 642

Oxygen, 143

Oyster, 218

Padua, 164

Paeanites, a gem, 329

Paganism, 203, 294, 317, 327, 512, chap. xxiv, 661-2

Painting, 177, 187, 764

Palatine hill, 125, 134

Palermo, 427

Palestine, 132, 280, 438

Palimpsest, 553

Palm, 62, 230, 333, 636

Pamphile, a witch, 229ff.

Pamphylia, 132

Pan, the god, 251, 546

Panacea, 172

Pancrates, a magician, 280-1

Pantarbe, 252

Panther, 74, 256

Papacy, 705;

see Sixtus IV for patronage of learning by

Papyri, 12, 14, 22, 27-8, 193, 196, 365, 467, 686

Paradise, 367, 470, 488

Paralysis, 739;

of the face, 738;

tongue, 755

Parchment, 589, 729, 764

Pard, 74, 168

Paris, 642

Parrot, 575

Parthians, 373, 376

Partridge, 168, 324, 574

Pastoral magic, 70

Paternoster, see Lord’s Prayer

Pathology, 576

Paul the apostle, 405, 413, 424, 449, 505;

potion of, 739

Peacock, 574, 636

Pebble, 591

Pelican, 324

Pella, 278

Penalty, 293, 313, 433

Penance, 513

Pendant, 301

Peony, 78, 173, 614, 740, 756

Pepper, 169, 176, 256, 586, 637

Pergamum, 122, 124, 130, 136, 149, 171, 236

Peristereos, an herb, 77

Persecution, fear of, 194

Persia and Persian, 58, 66, 376, 451, 475, 479, 503, 553, 558, 744, 762

Personification, 198, 343

Perspective, see Optics

Peru, 7, 17

Peter the apostle, 231, chap xvii, 505

Petroselinon, 132

Phaethon, 283

Phalangium, an insect, 86

Phallic ritual, 308

Phantasm and Phantom, see Apparition, Ghost

Phanuel, an angel, 342

Pharaoh’s dream, 358;

magicians, 379, 385, 417, 438, 446, 464, 470, 506-8, 629

Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 10, 20, 83, 122, 133, 343, 413, 434, 610, 734-5

Phidias, 24, 407

Philae, 559

Philip of Macedon, 331, 560ff.

Philoctetes, 294

Philology, 535, 545

Philosopher’s stone, 52, 197, 398, 763;

and see Alchemy

Philosophy, Greek, 21;

and alchemy, 13, 199;

and magic, 24, 61, 234, 246, 310, 440, 535;

and astrology, 674;

and business, 97;

Seneca, 103;

Galen and pseudo-Galen, 123-4, 127, 133, 139, 146, 149-50, 176, 180;

Vitruvius, 185-6;

other mentions of, 220, 223, 279, 360, 416, 466, 471, 481, 485, 493, 536, 620, 707;

and see names of individuals (largely in other index) and schools.

Phlebotomy, see Bleeding

Phoebus, 620;

and see Apollo

Phoenicia, 438

Phoenix, 207, 257, 332-3, 347, 460

Phraotes, 258

Phrygia and Phrygian, 206, 430, 597, 630

Phylactery, 513

Physica, 512, 579-80

Physics, 644

Physiognomy, 26, 176, 179, 460, 668

Physiology, 145, 395, 657-60

Pig, 76, 85, 168, 219, 393, 587, 727, 729, 764, 766;

and see Swine

Pill, 739

Pillow, beneath one’s, 90

Pine-tree, 490, 493

Piper, 217

Pirronius, a magician, 604

Piston, 192

Place, observed in magic, 645

Plagiarism, 186, 483, 649, 742, 746-7

Plague, Galen and, 124, 142, 171;

of 1348 A.D., 164;

Apollonius and, 259, 391;

of 542 A.D., 575;

of Egypt, 325, 357, 491, 522, 685, 687, 696;

miscellaneous, 410, 432, 538-9, 600

Planetary week, 16, 513, 633

Planets, when distinguished, 13-4, 16;

properties of, 97, 113-4, 346, 383, 526, 529, 662, 711;

in Gnosticism, 361;

in art, 379;

and the metals, 347, 368, 709, 763, 767;

and herbs, 291;

position at creation, 711, 713;

and formation of foetus, see Child-birth

Plate, metal, 229, 386, 572, 582

Platonism, 221, 243, 456;

for Plato see other index

Pleiades, 179, 355, 636

Pleurisy, 738

Plough, 80

Pneumatics, 188

Poetry, 6, 95, 511, 535

Poison and Poisoning, relation to magic, 25, 61, 441;

to medicine, 56;

venomous human beings, 324;

safeguards against, 67, 70-1, 386, 614,

and see Antidote;

miscellaneous, 81, 86-7, 231-2, 397, 417, 460, 535, 565, 572, 574, 668, 721, 733

Polar star, 384

Polion, an herb, 77

Politics, 358, 666

Pompholyx, 132

Pontianus, 223-4

Pontiff, 124, 149

Pontus, drugs from, 87, 132

Poplar, 90

Poppy, bearing stones, 216

Population, 136

Pork, 142

Pot-herbs, 606

Potter and Pottery, 384, 433, 588-9

Praestigium, 630, 665

Praetor, 538

Prayer, 12, 79, 104, 219, 233, 382, 398, 412, 423, 426, 443, 457, 530-1, 589, 645, 671, 705, 728;

procuring answer to, 70, 294, 593, 779;

by others than man, 457;

to others than God, 260, 264, 303, 526, 598-9, 661;

of St. John, 721;

and see Lord’s Prayer, Incantation

Predestination, 514

Prefect, 526

Pregnant stone, 740

Presbyter, 437

Prescription, medical, 152, 159, 172

Presentation, literary and scientific, 570, 595, 625

Prester, John, 477

Priest, 9, 13, 15, 21, 79, 85, 131, 195, 197, 300, 386, 533, 754, 763, 766

Priscillianists, 478, 519

Private parts, 343, 536

Procharus, 397

Proconsul, 235, 527

Professions, learned, 5, 125-6, 186-7, 744

Prognostication, medical, 164

Prophecy and Prophet, 25, 77, 205, 230, 352, 370, 439, 447, 459, 465, 476, 479, 534

Proteus, 263

Psychology, 75, 144-5, 657-60

Ptah-Seker-Ausar, 233

Ptolemais, 541

Ptolemy, king of Egypt, 135

Pulse, 144-5, 430, 658

Pump, 187, 192

Punic, 597

Puppy, see Dog

Purging, 667;

the lungs, 143

Purification, 62, 204, 232, 441, 531, 598

Purple, 173, 197-8, 590-1, 604

Push-ball, 487

Pylades, 144-5

Pyrethrum, an herb, 614

Pyrigoni, 324

Pyrites, 571, 768

Pyromancy, 260, 629

Pyrrhus, 83

Pytho, 629

Pythagorean, 26, 32, 50, 58, 61, 63, 65-6, 179, 184, 243, 258, 260, 280, 370, 456, 544

Quail, 490

Quadrivium, 632

Qualities, the four, 114, 139-40, 154, 157, 218, 485, 751, 755;

and see Cold, Heat

Quartan fever, 269, 579-81, 736

Quaternities, divine, 674

Quick-lime, 434, 571

Quinsy, 77, 89

Quintus Cicero, 269ff.

Rabbi, 355, 445. 470

Rabbit, 588, 729

Race, 184, 781;

for strange races see Hyperboreans, Seres, etc.

Radiation of force or light, 643-6

Radish, 721

Rainbow, 409

Rain-making, 23-4, 103, 386, 430

Rain-water, 81-2

Ram, 213, 332, 424, 467

Raphael, the angel, 342, 367, 447, 452, 454

Rat, 76

Ravenna, 367, 763

Raymond, archbishop of Toledo, 657

Reading, medieval, 604, 617-8

Reason, 218, 660;

free from magic, 300;

and experience, 157

Red, used, 65, 581, 508, 740

Red Sea, 84, 208

Redeemer, 361, 363, 438

Reed, 75-6, 80, 90, 215, 591, 726

Reformed churches, 447

Reggio, 445, 745

Relics of saints, 444, 446, 593, 675

Religion, and magic, 5-6, 8-9, 15, 18, 20, 22-3, 33-4, 60, 232, 256, 505, 533;

and astrology, 15-7, 524, 529-31;

and science, 407-8, 479, chap. xxi;

other than Christian, 94, 361, 725,

and see Mohammedanism, Paganism, etc.;

medieval religious attitude, 746, 752;

and see Christianity, God, Theology, Trinity, etc.

Renaissance, 20, 122, 570, 618

Reseda, an herb, 93

Respiration, see Breathing

Resurrection of the body, 47, 415, 541

Resuscitation of corpses, 280, 391, 394, 397, 424, 426, 638, 763

Revelation, 56, 253, 407;

and see Divination by

Revolutions, astrological, 26, 377, 650

Rhetoric, 124, 221, 269, 483, 518, 533, 535, 555, 596, 603, 700

Rhodes, 269, 301

Rhododendron, 175

Rhubarb, first mention of, 576

Riddles, 636

Right hand, etc., used or preferred, 70, 78, 81, 83, 88, 90, 92, 324-5, 332, 574, 580-1, 591-2, 767

Ring, 69, 78, 173, 219, 251, 253, 280, 292, 379, 564, 582, 590, 592, 599, 656, 662, 705, 755

Ring-worm, 93

Rip van Winkle, 399

Ritual, 12, 23;

and see Ceremonial

Roads, Roman, 135-6

Robber, 117

Robert, king of France, 672, 704, 736

Robert Guiscard, 745

Romance, Greek, 22, 221, 232, 553;

Medieval, 557

Romanesque, 502

Romans, traits of, 184

Rome, as center of learning, 124, 128-31, 135, 162, 201, 222, 242, 269, 277, 537, 586, 741;

other mentions, 209, 230, 366, 372, 403, 408, 421, 423-4, 464, 553

Romulus, 209, 274, 330, 602

Root, see Herb

Rose, 230, 751;

wild, 56

Royal Society, 214

Rubbing, 142

Ruddy complexion, 768-71

Rue, 737;

eaten by weasel, 74, 324, 626

Ruin, excavated, 762

Russet, 89

Rust, 766

Rustic, experience, 578, 585

Sabaoth, 365, 367, 379, 451, 583, 599

Sabbath, 204, 513

Sabians, 661-3

Sacerdos, 235

Sacra Via, 125, 133, 424

Sacrifice, 68, 79, 104, 131, 166, 215, 248, 250-1, 261, 294-5, 308-9, 317, 363, 414, 431, 645, 661-3, 705;

human, 62, 207, 249, 418, 539, 687

Sacrum amarum, 739

Saffron, 656, 765

Sagmina, sacred herbs, 76

St. Gall, 640, 677

St. Sophia, 575, 770

Sakkara, 9

Salamander, 54, 68, 85, 214, 324, 511, 636;

“wool,” 214

Salerno, chaps. xxxi, xxxii

Salisatores, 630

Saliva, 20, 82, 88-9, 92-3, 174, 281, 373, 392, 573, 588, 592, 656, 769

Salmon, 424

Salt, 213, 373, 467, 583, 670;

and see Holy, Sodom

Saltus Gilberti, 705

Salve, 87, 606, 722

Salvia, 739

Samaria, 363-4, 368, 421

Samothracian orgies, 149

Samuel, ghost of, see Endor, witch of

Sandal-Makers, street of, 134

Sandals, 230

Sandastros, a gem, 97

Sapphire, 496, 779

Saracen, 138, 718

Sarcophagus, 476

Sard, 777

Sardinia, 329

Sardis, 255

Sardonia, an herb, 329

Sardonic laugh, 329

Satire, 285

Saturn, god, 207;

planet, 97, 184, 580, 633, 768

Saturninus, a heretic, 372

Satyr, 263-4, 546

Saul, 448, 469

Scarab, 10, 68, 333

Scarification, 721

Scepticism, see Credulity and

Sciatica, 69

Scientific spirit, curiosity, etc., 144, 234, 308, 378-9, 437, 485-6, 494, 502-4, 528, 535, 559, 669, 752;

and see Experiment, Observation

Scipio Orfitus, 223

Scorpion, 74, 81, 85-8, 171, 174, 494, 573, 583, 656, 666

Scotland, 654

Scrofula, 82, 89, 91, 587

Sculpture, 277, 501

Scylla, the monster, 263, 636;

an herb, 526

Scythian, 59, 77, 245, 407, 496, 654

Sea, 225, 738;

and see Bath

Sea-calf, 580;

faring, 245;

foam, 468;

gull, 159;

hare, 171, 236, 238, 587;

holly, 213;

serpent, 325, 574;

star, 89;

urchin, 68, 490-1

Seal of Diana, 130

Sealing, 69, 278, 468

Seasons, four, 114

Secrecy, 194, 227, 233, 239, 254, 287, 295, 372, 405, 420, 579, 765, 776

Seed, 605;

seedless herbs, 489

Seia, 599

Selene, 215

Selenomancy, 98

Semen, 369

Semitic, 15

Semo Sancus, 421

Senecion, an herb, 614

Sense and Senses, 150, 158, 180, 355

Sepia, 87

Septimius Severus, emperor, 243, 253, 293;

and see Severi

Septizonium, 253

Serapis, 379, 442, 763

Seres, 376, 402, 412-4

Serf and Servant, 739;

and see Colonus; Slavery

Sermon, 426, 482ff.

Serpent, lifted up in the wilderness, 379;

and see Snake, Dragon, Sea-serpent

Sesame, 655

Sethians, 365

Sethos, 14

Seven, 14, 16, 49, 67, 69, 169, 179, 198, 212, 232, 253, 258, 279, 282, 318, 333, 346, 355-6, 365, 371, 373, 376, 378, 383, 385, 411, 429, 435, 491, 522, 537, 545, 581, 590, 592, 599, 633, 676, 724, 771, 777

Seven sleepers, 725, 759

Severi, dynasty of, 125, 130;

and see Septimius

Sèvres, 762

Sex, observed in magic, 69, 78, 80-2, 94, 729, 759;

of hyena, 397;

of herbs and stones, 81, 764;

of numbers, 179, 371;

of planets and signs, 282, 662, 709-12;

predicted, 175-6, 516;

intercourse, 141, 639, 767

Shadow, 605

Shadow-footed, 256

Shark, 494

Shaving the head, 142, 560, 724

Sheba, 479

Sheep, 68, 102, 168, 173, 219, 467, 490, 582, 656;

the lost, 363;

and see Lamb, Ram, Shepherd, Pastoral

Shellfish, 98, 517

Shepherd, 478

Ship, 604;

wreck, 748

Shirt, 581

Shoe, 638

Short-hand, 134, 232

Showbread, 385

Sibyl, 546;

for Sibylline books see other index

Sicily, 85, 427, 525

Sideritis, a stone, 295

Sieve, 91, 250, 325

Signatures, 310

Sign, see Abbreviation, Divination, Prognostication, Sex predicted, Star, Zodiac

Silence observed, 722

Silas, 449

Silk, 608

Silvanus, 546

Silver, 590, 599

Similarity, argument from, 238, 614;

and see Like cures like

Simon the Canaanite, 392

Simon Magus, chap. xvii, 362-5, 397, 439

Simon, St., 435

Simples, medicinal, in Pliny, 46, 83;

Galen, 128, 153, 160, 168, 571

Sin, 344, 372-5, 430, 457, 520;

effect on nature, 254, 345, 350, 409-10, 490

Sinew, 68, 148

Siphon, 189, 191

Siren, 263

Sisebut, king, 623

Sisinnios, 398

Six, 184, 356, 521

Sixtus IV, pope, 349, 596

Skeleton, 233

Skin, 141, 769;

changing one’s, 170, 238, 324;

disease, 102, 537;

see Animals, parts of;

and the names of particular animals for the use of their skins

Skull, 80, 580

Sky, see Heaven

Slav, 658

Slavery, 136, 170, 350, 515, 668, 683

Slavonic, 342, 345, 398

Sleep, magic, 399

Sleight-of-hand, 370

Slot-machine, 197

Smallpox, 668

Smilax, 92

Smoke, 89, 615

Smyrna, 123

Snail, 89, 92, 586

Snake, remedies against, 84-9, 99, 175, 258, 295, 365, 386, 392, 495, 599, 614;

animals antipathetic to, 84-5, 99, 231;

virtue in, 23, 168, 197;

of India, 214, 564;

Satan and demons as, 365, 391, 430;

charming, 83, 278-80, 325, 511, 561-2, 638-9;

sting and venom of, 56, 81-2, 102;

foam of, 67;

sloughing of, 170;

not found in Ismuc, 183;

at Delphi, 283;

on a pendant, 301;

medical knowledge of, 441;

and see Fennel, tasted by

Sneeze, divination from, 95, 205, 207

Social aspect of magic, 59;

life in antiquity, 137, 185

Socrates, 137, 139, 204, 234, 240, 270, 288, 532

Soda, washing, 571

Sodom, salts of, 138

Soldier, 56-7

Solemnity, required in magic, 644-6

Solon, 326, 355

Son of God, 372, 438

Soot, 236

Sopater, 313

Sophist and Sophistry, 540-1

Soporific, 758

Sorcery, 10, 25, 61, 96, 166, 270, 279, 324, 344, 352, 386, 390, 393, 437-8, 441, 655, 690, 733;

counter-magic against, 17-20, 70, 81, 94, 301, 391, 600;

and see Goetia, Witchcraft

Sortilegi, 630

Sory, 132

Soul, human, Plato on, 25-6;

Pliny, 47, 96;

Galen, 150, 178, 180;

Plutarch, 206-7, 213, 217;

Neo-Platonists, 309-10, 318;

Gnostics, 364;

location of, 735;

apart from body, 399, 418, 455, 510, 546;

immortality of, 416, 419, 469, 531, 541;

other than human, 198, 213;

and see World-soul

Sound, 143, 201, 430, 542

Sousnyos, St., 398

Spain, 380, 433, 489, 580, 597, 607

Spanish era, 773

Sparrow, 271

Sparta and Spartan, 21-2, 216, 301

Species, 304, 493, 751

Speech, impediment of, 536

Sphaera barbarica, 537

Sphere, see Earth, Universe, and other index

Spice, 250, 257, 295, 606

Spider, 90, 94, 168-9, 171, 175, 587

Spinal cord, 146

Spirit, good or evil (including angel and demon, but see also Apparition, Ghost, Necromancy, Soul), in early Arabic poetry, 6;

in the ancient orient, 11, 15, 18-9, 24;

classical Greece, 24, 26, 180-1;

on nature of, Plutarch, 203-4, 206-8;

Apuleius, 240;

Philostratus, 263-4;

Iamblichus, 309-10;

Enoch, 343; Origen and Celsus, 441-3, 452-3;

Augustine, 508;

Martianus Capella, 545-6;

Dionysius the Areopagite, 546-7;

Christian ascription of other religions to demons, 370, 414, 429ff., 442, 453;

disease and, 11, 18-9, 299, 343, 452, 722;

expulsion of, and power over, 253, 262, 386, 405, 414, 417-8, 441, 443, 754, 779, and see Exorcism; fall of, 343, 374-5;

familiar and guardian, 207, 210, 368, 370;

in the air, 206, 240, 424, 463, 508, 635;

in heavens and stars, chap. xv, 343, 397, 431, 458, 487-8, 519;

in the moon, 207;

in nature, 181, 296, 308, 310, 347, 382, 414, 430, 443, 452-4, 543;

invocation of, 301, 308, 310, 320, 361, 367-8, 371-2, 384, 419, 437, 442, 447, 449-52, 543, 655, 674, and see Necromancy, Notory art;

magic, astrology, arts and sciences ascribed to, 195, 240, 313, 343, 368, 370, 412, 414, 417-8, 422, 429-32, 441-3, 447-8, 453, 458-9, 463, 465-6, 506-7, 509, 513, 518, 629, 675, 705;

mediums between God or gods and men, 206, 208, 240, 349, 452-4, 459, 621, 675;

orders of, 308-9, 320, 363, 408, 455, 507, 545-7, 727;

possessed by, 308, 392, 413-4, 434, 510, 640, 723-4, 754-5;

safeguards against, 18, 216, 293, 391, 398, 449, 615, 726, 728

Spiritus, 147, 658-60

Spit, see Saliva

Spleen, 57, 68-9, 85, 536, 577, 579, 584, 587-8, 591

Spodium or Spodos, 132

Sponge, 227

Spoon, 721

Spring, water 229;

caused to flow, 769;

and see Fountain, Seasons

Staff, 252, 435, 679

Stag, 84, 207, 294, 324;

and see Deer

Stained glass, 427, 435, 770

Stans, the, 415

Star, nature of, god or animal, etc., 25-6, 103, 206, 210, 212, 240, 303, 315, 343-4, 353, 436, 456, 519-21, 530, 620-1, 632, 662, 670;

as sign, 302, 410, 458, 544;

not cause of evil, 305, 354, 475, 514;

cause of evil, 411;

affected by magic, 225-6;

shooting, 71, 589;

fixed, 114;

and see Astrology;

Christ, birth of;

Magi

Star-fish, 56

Starling, 490

Statue, 91, 279, 280, 764;

healing, 284;

animated, 188, 416-7, 424, 435;

and see Image, Sculpture

Steam, 192

Stele of Metternich, 559

Stepmother, 215

Stoic, 50, 141, 178-81, 210, 269-70, 283, 350, 397, 456

Stomach, 92, 173, 536, 592, 656, 757

Stone, the disease, 87, 588, 729;

and see Gem

Stoning to death, 262, 399

Storax, a gum, 495

Stork, 257, 324-5, 331, 460, 580

Storm-averting magic, 71, 80, 92, 102, 252, 313

Stream, 91, 225-6, 546;

and see Fountain

Stupa, 251, 413

Style, literary, 222-3, 525, 570, 620

Styx, river, 326

Suanir, 435

Suffumigation, see Fumigation

Suggestion, force of, 265

Sulla, 532

Sulphur, 279, 764

Sumerian, 15, 17

Summun bonum, 752

Sun, god and worship, 97, 251, 261, 294-5, 317-8, 382, 492, 524;

personified, 347, 410, 457, 529;

and magic, 141, 225-7, 308, 386;

astrological influence of, 99, 179, 211;

rising and dawn, 215, 230-1, 256, 261;

before sunrise, 69, 71, 78, 91, 94, 131, 173, 281, 583, 599, 768;

before sunset, 583;

experiment with, 55;

dial, 185, 187;

distance and size of, 219, 488;

tropical, 214;

tree of, 564

Superstition, Plutarch on, 203-4;