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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Aahmes I., chaplets from coffin of, 233
“Absalom and Achitophel,” Dryden, 126
“Abyssinia, Life in,” Parkyns, 14
Achemedis, herb, 199
Acipenser, 158
Acosta, “Natvrall and Morall Historie,” 219
Adam, earliest botanist, 181
Adder, wilfully deaf, 67, 148
Addison’s “Milton Imitated,” 99
Adelaide of Louvain, 218
Adissechen, the thousand-headed, 146
Adolf Dux, article by, 197
Ælian on aspis, 147; on basilisk, 49; on lion and ram-headed fish, 160; on unicorn, 9
Æneas Sylvius on barnacle tree, 174
Ætius on basilisk, 49; on dryinus, 49
“Africa, History of,” Leo, 30
Agnus Dei, as a badge, 74
Alaus Magnus on kraken, 150
Albertus Magnus, “De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 234; dragon, 28; on pigmies, 125
Alchemists and phœnix, 54
Aldrovandus, “Monstrorum Historia,” 31, 79, 87, 161
Alimos plant, 197
Amaranth, 177
Amazons, 95
Ambrosia, 183
Amphisbena, 148
Anacramseros plant, 199
Andromeda and Perseus, 19
Annulet as mark of cadency, 232
Anthropophagi, 94
Antipathy between dragon and elephant, 42; between serpent and stag, 15
Antony and Cleopatra, 91, 188
Apples of Hesperides, 40; of Istkahar, 196; of perpetual youth, 196
Apollo Epicurius, temple of, 222
Apuleius, “The Golden Ass,” 184
Arabia, home of the phœnix, 50
“Arabian Nights,” 7, 40, 69, 132, 140, 196
Archaic pottery, British Museum, 85
Ardoynus on basilisk, 49
Arian v. Athanasian, 209
Arimaspian gold, 69
Arimaspians, 98
Arion and the dolphins, 158
Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso,” 50, 70
Aristotle on chameleon, 77; on pigmies, 125
Arms of City of London, 70; of Prince of Wales, 234; of William de Valence, 134
Arrowheads or Celts, 108
“Art of Love,” King’s, 49
Asbestos, 61
Asphodel, 180
Aspis, 147
Assembly of Beaux Esprits, Paris, 10
Ass, Indian, of Ctesias, 7
“As you Like it,” 54
“Atlas Geographicus,” 231
Aubrey’s “Gentilisme and Judaisme,” 31, 227
Augustine, St., on the manipulation of facts, 216; on monsters, 41
Avebury stones, 58
Avicen on basilisk, 49
Bacon on the sphinx legend, 83; “Wisdom of the Ancients,” 220, 224
Badge of Jane Seymour, 53
Balam, the ox, 159
Ballad of dragon of Wantley, 33; of St. George and dragon, 211
“Bara Bathra,” 151
Basil, herb, 200
Basilisk, king of serpents, 48, 91
Barliata, 175
Barnacle goose-tree, 168
Bartolomeo, standard of, 6
Basking shark, 146
Bay tree, 234
Beaumont and Fletcher’s “Woman Hater,” 48
Beaux Esprits, assembly of, 10
Behemoth legend, 152
Ben Jonson on remora, 159
“Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume, 43
Bestiary of De Thaun, 67, 147, 218
Bewick’s books, 2
Bible Herbal of Newton, 183
Bible references to adder, 67; amaranth, 178; cockatrice, 46; dragon, 19; giants, 129; leviathan, 152; mandrake, 193; unicorn, 4
Bird of paradise, 135
Blemmyes, headless men, 97
Boar, 15, 49
Boiastuau, “Histoires Prodigeuses,” 224
“Boke of Husbandry,” Fitzherbert, 204
Bolyai, tomb of, 197
Bones preserved in churches, 59
Borghese centaur, 85
Borrowing from the fairies, 228
Boussetti on monsters, 161
Brathwait’s “Nature’s Embassie,” 224
Breydenbach’s Travels, 62
Briaræus, 94, 99
Bristol, great bone at, 59
“Britannia,” Camden, 217
“Britannica Concha Anatifera,” 175
British Museum, centaur, 85, 222; Lansdowne MSS., 31; Scythian lamb, 71
Brobdingnag, men of, 99
Browne’s “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 199; “Vulgar Errors,” 31, 69, 190
Brownie, 119
Bruce on the horned viper, 232
Bruynswyke’s Herbal, 182
Bryony roots carved into human form, 190
Bucca, 121
Buckland’s “Curiosities of Natural History,” 60
Buffalo, 12
Burton’s “Miracles of Art and Nature,” 4, 71, 93, 153, 194
Bury Palliser’s “Historic Badges,” 6
Bushmen, the modern pigmies, 127
Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,157, 196; on nautilus, 155
Cadency in heraldry, 232
Cader Idris, the giant’s seat, 131
Cadwallader, ensign of, 33
Caerleon, great bone at, 59
Camden’s “Britannia,” 217
“Canterbury Tales,” 104
Capitoline Museum sculptures, 222
Cassandra’s gift, 163
Catacombs of Rome, 5
Cathay and the vegetable lamb, 71
Catoblepas of Pliny, 49
Caxton and the “Legenda Aurea,” 22
Cedric the Victorious, 33
Celtic pen-dragon, 33
Celts or arrow-heads, 108
Centaur, 84
Centaury, 85, 222
Cerastes or horned viper, 232
Cetus of De Thaun, 151
“Ceylon,” Tennant, 127
Chameleon, 76, 91
Changeful colours of dolphin, 157
Changelings, 110
Chang, the Chinese giant, 130
Chaplets in Egyptian tombs, 178
Charles II., dedication to, 47
Chaucer on Sir Guy of Warwick, 56
Chesterfield, great bone at, 59
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Byron, 157, 196
Chilon, 160
Chimæra, 84, 149
China, the dragon symbol, 27
Chiron the Centaur, 222
“Chronicles,” Holingshead, 113
City of London, arms of, 70
Clawed men of Surinam, 97
Clement of Alexandria, 177
Clusius, “Rariorum Plantarum Historia,” 181
Coats, the heraldic chimæra, 84
Coca leaf, 195
Cockatrice, 44
Cockeram’s “English Dictionary,” 198
Coinage, the unicorn, 6
Colebrand the champion, 55
Coleridge on giants, 132
“Comedy of Errors,” 90, 91
Comptes Royaux of France, 6
“Comus,” Milton, 119
“Coriolanus,” 40
“Corona Dedicatoria” of Sylvester, 53
“Cosmography” of Munster, 173
Cotter, the Irish giant, 130
Cottonian MSS., 218
Coventry, great bone at, 58
Crane and pigmy combats, 125
Crescent as a mark of cadency, 232
Crest of Earl Douglas, 64
Crocodile, reference in Job, 154
Ctesias on griffin, 68; Indian ass, 7; on pigmies, 126
Cupid and Psyche, 184
“Curiosities of Natural History,” Buckland, 60
Cuttle fish, 150
Cwm Pwcca, Brecon, 122
Cyclops, 82, 94, 98
“Cymbeline,” 39, 54
Cyoeraeth, 121
Dacien and St. George, 25
Danby, picture by, 184
Dart, 44
Darwin on vampyre bat, 76
Davy Jones’s locker, 161
Dead as a door nail, 124
Dead Sea apples, 196
Deaf adder, 67, 148
De Bry’s “India Orientalis,” 185
Decker on the unicorn, 6
“Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” 22, 209
De Ferry and sea-serpent, 144
Democritus on chameleon, 78
“Description Historique de Macaçar,” 186
“Description of 300 Animals,” 2, 44
De Thaun, 8, 67, 136, 147, 151, 191, 218
Device of Francis I., 61; of Henry VII., 33
Devil fish, 150
Devil’s candle, 193
“De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 234
Diamond softening, 199
Dies, 160
Diocletian the persecutor, 25
Dioscorides on basilisk, 49
Discourses of Virtuosi of France, 10
“Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 103
“Display of Heraldry,” Guillim, 7
Dodoens, Herbal of, 182
Dog-headed men, 93, 96
Dolphin, 156
Donatus, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Dragon, 2, 16, 133, 192, 211, 229
Dragonhill, Berkshire, 33
Dragonnades, 39
Dragon overthrown, knighthood of, 27
Druids and fairies, 102
Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 126; on basilisk, 48; “Flower and the Leaf,” 227; translation from Ovid, 52
Dryinus of Ætius, 49
Dudaim, 193
Dugdale on Guy of Warwick, 55
Dugong and Manatee, 91
Du Mont and the dragon of Rhodes, 231
Dun cow legend, 55
Eagle gazing on the sun, 133
Eagney or Meto, 197
Earl Douglas, crest of, 64
Eastern Soudan and Uganda, 7
Echeneis or Remora, 158
Echidna, 40, 88
Eden’s “Historie of Travayle,” 94
Egede and the sea-serpent, 144
Egg-talisman, 147
Egyptian form of sphinx, 82; love of flowers, 235
Egyptian representations of giraffe, 63
Eikon Basilike, 202
El Dorado and Sir W. Raleigh, 95
Elephant, 15, 79; antipathy between dragon and, 42
Elf-bolts, 109
Elizabeth, Queen, badge of, 53
El Kazwini, Arab writer, 7
“Elysium,” Felicia Hemans’, 177
Empusa, 14
Enchanter’s nightshade, 193
“English Cyclopædia of Natural History,” 7
“English Dictionary” of Cockeram, 198
“English Parnassus” of Poole, 103, 120
Enmity between stag and serpent, 15
Epitaph on Gryphius, 70
Erasmus on headless men, 97; Sileni Alcibiadis, 228
Ethiopia, unicorns in, 4
Exodus, reference to unicorn in, 5
“Faculties of Nourishment,” Galen, 180
Fairies, 99, 227
Fairy rings, 104
Falstaff, on fairies, 110; the salamander, 64
Fanesii of Scandinavia, 98
Father Pigafetta on dragons, 30
Fauns and satyrs, 86
Featley’s recantation, 31
Felicia Hemans’ “Elysium,” 177
Ferrer de Valcebro on the Barliata, 175
Ferry, Laurent de, on sea-serpent, 144
Field, extract from, 65
Field of the cloth of gold, 61
Fire-drake, 147
“Fire-worshippers,” Moore, 193
Fish nun, 159
Fitzherbert’s “Boke of Husbandry,” 204
Fletcher’s “Purple Island,” 51
Fleur-de-lys as mark of cadency, 232
“Flower and the Leaf,” Dryden, 227
Foersch on upas tree, 185
Forty-leaved plant, 197
Four-footed serpents, 71
Francisci Boussetti on sea-monsters, 161
Friar’s lantern, 123
Fuller’s “Holy State,” 132
Galen on aspis, 147; on basilisk, 49; “Faculties of Nourishment,” 180
Garcias ab Horto, on unicorn, 9
Gargoyles of draconic form, 28
Ge and Tartaros, rebellion of, 131
Gelasius, Pope, and St. George, 210
Gelotaphilois, herb, 199
Generation of the cockatrice, 44
“Gentilisme and Judaisme” of Aubrey, 31
“Gentleman’s Magazine,” extract from, 117
Geography of Strabo, 125
George, St., and dragon, 23, 31, 209-211
“Gerania” of Joshua Barnes, 127
Gerarde, “History of Plants,” 168, 180; asphodel, 180; barnacle goose-tree, 168; mandrake, 189
Gervaise, “Description de Macaçar,” 186
Gervase, on fairies, 102
Ghoul, 75
Giant Colebrand, 55
Giants, 128
Giants’ Causeway, 130
Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” 22, 209
Gillius the compassionate, 156
Giraffe or seraffa, 63
Giraldus Cambrensis on barnacle trees, 175
Glanvil, on griffin, 68; on salamander, 60
Gnomes, 119
Godes-andsacan, 20
“Golden Ass” of Apuleius, 184
Golden fruit of the Hesperides, 40
Graham’s “Sketches of Perthshire,” 121
Greek form of sphinx, 82
Greene on the apples of the Hesperides, 40
Green, Matthew, “The Spleen,” 132
Grevinus on basilisk, 49
Griffin, 2, 68, 229
Groats from Fairyland, 109, 120, 228
Gryphius, device of, 70
Guerino, Meschino, 98
Guild processions in Middle Ages, 86
Guiana, Hartsinck on, 97; Sir W. Raleigh on, 95
Guillaume, “Bestiare Divin,” 43
Guillim, “Display of Heraldry,” 7, 41, 46, 88, 134
“Gulliver’s Travels,” 132
Guy of Warwick and the Dun Cow, 55, 217
Hackluyt’s “Voyages,” 97, 219
Halliwell on anthropophagi, 94
Hameh-bird, 140
“Hamlet,” satyr, 86
“Handmayd to Religion,” 31
Harpy, 48, 86, 230
Harrington and the sea-serpent, 142
Hartsinck on Guiana, 97
Headless men, 94
Hemans, Felicia, poem by, 177
Heraldic bird-forms, 134; dolphin, 156
“Herball to the Bible” of Newton, 189
Herbert’s “Jacula Prudentum,” 132; “Relations of some yeares Travaile,” 186
Herb Viva, 198
Hercules and the pigmies, 126
“Henry IV.,” 74, 112, 123
“Henry VI.,” 54, 91
“Henry VIII.,” 54, 56, 147
Heraldic cockatrice, 46; dolphin; 156 griffin, 70; Pegasus, 73; phœnix, 53; unicorn, 4
“Heraldry, display of,” by Guillim, 7, 41, 46
Herodotus, griffin, 69; phœnix, 50, 52; pigmies, 125
Hesiod, chimæra, 84; harpy, 87
Hesperides, garden of the, 40
Heylin on St. George, 31
Hilary, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Hindu sacred groves, 177
Hippeau on Guillaume, 44, 216
Hippice, 199
“Histoire Naturelle,” 231
“Histoires Prodigeuses,” Boiastuau, 224
“Historia Monstrorum,” 31, 79, 87, 161, 224
“Historic Badges,” Palliser, 6
“Historie of Travayle” of Eden, 94
“History of Africa,” John Leo, 30
“History of Ethiopia,” Ludolphus, 231
“History of Plants,” 168, 180
Hog-faced gentlewoman, 92
Holingshead’s “Chronicles,” 113
Holland’s edition of Pliny, 155
Hollerius, 201
Hollybush, Miles Coverdale, 183
“Holy State,” Fuller, 132
“Holyday devotions,” 31
Home of the pigmies, 126
Homer, ambrosia, 183; asphodel, 180; centaur, 85; harpy, 87; “Iliad,” 125, 184; “Odyssey,” 177
Hondius and Sir W. Raleigh, 95
“Honour, Titles of,” Selden, 32
Hoole’s “Orlando Furioso,” 50
Horned viper or cerastes, 232
Hudibras, quotation from, 168
“Humana Physiognomonia,” of Porta, 93
Humma-bird, 136
Huppe-bird, 136
Hydra, 149
Ibis, 137
Idolatrous groves, 177
Ignis fatuus, 122
Iliad, 125, 184
Indian ass, 7; serpent legend, 163
“India Orientals,” of De Bry, 185
Invisibility of fairies, 103
Iormungandur the encircler, 146
Isaiah, reference to cockatrice, 46
Isidore on onocentaur, 85
Jack-o’-Lantern, 122
Jack the Giant-killer, 128
“Jacula Prudentum,” by Herbert, 132
Jane Seymour, badge of, 53
Java and its upas trees, 184
Jeremiah, cockatrice, 46; dragon, 41
“Jerusalem Delivered,” Tasso, 99
Jewish tradition, 152, 159
Job, leviathan, 152; unicorn, 5
Jodocus Hondius, 95
John Leo, “History of Africa,” 30
John of Arragon, salamander device of, 61
Johnson on Gerarde, 172
Joshua Barnes, the “Gerania,” 127
Juvenal, pigmy combats, 125
Kadmos, founding of Thebes, 38
Kalli Naga, 20
Kalpa Tarou tree, 176
Kelpies, 102, 121
Kerzereh flowers, 188
Kew, lotus chaplets at, 179, 233; upas tree at, 185
Keymis on Guiana, 96
“King Henry IV.,” 74, 112, 123, 190
“King Henry VI.,” 54, 91, 190
“King Henry VIII.,” 54, 56
“King Lear,” 39
“King Richard III.,” 40, 45
“King’s Art of Love,” 49
Knockers, 117
Kobold, 119
Kœmpfer on upas tree, 186
Koran, the fish nun, 159; the lote tree, 176; the ox Balam, 159
Kraken, 149
Kuchlein’s illustrations, 98
Kyonjik sculptures, 177
Label as a mark of cadency, 232
Ladon and the Hesperides, 40
“Lalla Rookh,” 107, 135
“L’Allegro” of Milton, 120, 123
Lamia, 13
Lane’s “Arabian Nights,” 7, 40, 69
Languedoc and its dragon, 21
Lansdowne MSS. in British Museum, 31, 227
Lapithæ and Centaurs, 222
Laurence Keymis on Guiana, 96
Laurent de Ferry and sea-serpent, 144
“Legenda Aurea” of Voraigne, 22
Legends of the Talmud, 152, 159
Leo, “History of Africa,” 30
Leviathan, 152, 159
“Life in Abyssinia,” Parkyns, 14
Lig-draca, 20
Lilliput, men of, 99, 126
Lion, 3
Lion-headed fish, 160
“Lives of the Saints,” 22
Livre des Créatures, De Thaun, 218
Lobel and Pena’s book, 175
Lobos, Father, and the unicorn, 231
Lomie, 71
London, arms of City of, 70
Long-eared men or Fanesii, 98
Lote tree of Koran, 176
Lotophagia, 177
Loup-garou or wehr-wolf, 75
Loup, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Louvre, Borghese centaur, 85, 222
Lucian on asphodel, 180
Ludolphus, “History of Ethiopia,” 231
Lurlei of the Rhine, 90
Lyte and Dodoens, herbal of, 182
Mab, the fairy queen, 103, 120
“Macaçar; Description Historique du Royaume de,” 186
“Macbeth,” 39
Magrath, the giant, 130
Maid of Orleans and the mandrake, 189
Mallwyd, great bone at, 59
Manatees and Dugongs, 91
Mandeville on griffin, 68; headless men, 97; pigmies, 196; vegetable lamb, 71
Mandrake, 188
Man-eater and Rompo, 12
Mansfield Parkyns’ “Life in Abyssinia,” 14
Manticora, 13
Maori traditions, 127
Marcel, St., dragon-slayer, 21
Marco Polo’s travels, 219
Marks of abatement and augmentation, 88; of cadency, 134
Martha, St., dragon-slayer, 21
Martial, St., dragon-slayer, 21
Martin, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Martin’s “Philosophical Grammar,” 229
Martlet, 134, 232
Mary Stuart, badge of, 204
Matthew Green, “The Spleen,” 132
Matthiolus, herbal of, 181
McQuahee and the sea-serpent, 143, 145
“Measure for Measure,” 131
Mediæval dragon recipes, 29; festivals, 98
“Merchant of Venice,” 196
Mermaid, 90, 160, 231
Metamorphoses, 202
Meto or Eagney, 197
Metopes of Parthenon, 222
Michovius on griffin-land, 69
“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 39, 90, 120
Miles Coverdale, Hollybush, 183
Milton, amaranth, 178; Arimaspians, 98; chimæra, 84; gorgon, 84; griffin, 69; harpy, 87; hydra, 84; “L’Allegro,” 120, 123; “Paradise Lost,” 98, 123, 178; Will o’ the wisp, 123
“Milton imitated,” Addison, 99
Mimosa sensitiva, 198
Minotaur, 48
“Miracles of Art and Nature,” Burton, 4, 71, 93, 153, 194
Monacella, St., bone of, 59
Money, fairy, 109, 120, 227, 228
“Monstrorum Historia” of Aldrovandus, 31, 79, 87, 161, 224
Monuments of Egypt, 63
Moore, “Fire worshippers,” 193; Kerzereh flower, 188; “Lalla Rookh,” 107, 135; “Paradise and the Peri,” 54, 136; “Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” 188
More Hall of Wantley, 34
Mountain fish, 149
Mouse, 16
“Much Ado about Nothing,” 87
Munster’s “Cosmography,” 173
Murphy the Irish giant, 130
Musical tastes of the dolphin, 158
Narcissus, possibly the asphodel, 180
National Library, Paris, 44
“Natural History of Norway,” Pontoppidan, 145
“Nature’s Embassie,” Brathwait, 223
“Natvrall and Morall Historie” of Acosta, 219
Naud the pen-dragon, 33
Nautilus, 155
Nech of Scandinavia, 121
Nectar of the gods, 183
Newton’s “Bible Herbal,” 183, 189
Newts spitting fire, 64
Nicander on the aspis, 147
Nickard, 229
“Night Thoughts,” Young, 126
Nineveh and Persepolis, sculptures at, 19
Ninina, unicorns of, 231
Nis, 119
Nixies, 102
Nova Hispania, flora of, 197
Nun, the fish, 159
“Nuremburg Chronicle,” 97
Nymphs, 119
Nzi Khonsou, the princess, 233
Oats, fairy, 100
Oberon, 103
Octavianus the reliable, 175
Octopus, 150
Odysseus, the Lotophagi, 177; the Sirens, 89
Og, the king of Bashan, 129
Ojibiway legend of the serpent, 163
Olaus Magnus and the sea-serpent, 143
Onocentaur, 85
Ophyasta, herb, 199
Oppian, pigmy combats, 125
Order of the dragon, 22; of the dragon overthrown, 27
Oribasius on the basil, 201
Origin of fairies, 101
“Orlando Furioso,” of Ariosto, 50, 70
Orpheus and the Sirens, 89
“Ortus sanitatis,” 219
Osiris the judge, 178
“Othello,” 189
Ovid on ambrosia, 183; phœnix, 52
Owen, Professor, on sea-serpents, 145
Ox Balam, the, 159
Ox, wild, 15
Oyle of castor, 153
Palliser’s “Historic Badges,” 6
Palm-tree emblem, 194, 202
Pan, 124
Paracelsus on the phœnix, 54
“Paradise Lost,” Milton, 98, 123
“Paradise and the Peri,” Moore, 54, 136
Parker on poisonous trees, 187
Parkinson’s “Theater of Plants,” 172, 180, 190
Parkyns’ “Life in Abyssinia,” 14
Parthenon sculptures, 85, 222
Paulus Venetus on unicorn, 9
Peccata Naturæ, 42
Pedal sunshades, 98
Pegasus, 73
Pelican legend, 133
Pelion on Ossa, 131
Pen-dragon, 33
Pennant Melangell, great bone at, 59
Percy’s “Reliques of Antient English Poetry,” 34, 56, 211
“Peregrine Pickle” of Smollett, 162
“Pericles,” 40, 87
Persepolis, sculptures at, 19
Perseus and Andromeda legend, 19
“Perthshire, Sketches of,” 121
Pheg of the Tsi-hiai, 152
Philip de Thaun, 8, 67, 191
Philostratus on the pigmies, 125
“Philosophical Grammar,” Martin, 229
Phoca, Pooka, or Pwcca, 121, 133
Phœnix, 50, 134, 217, 229
Phœnix-tree, 217
Pigafetta on dragons, 30
Pigmies, 124
Pink centaury, 85
Pliny on basilisk, 48; bay-tree, 201; chameleon, 78; dolphin, 156; dragon, 29, 42; Echeneis, 158; Fanesii, 98; giant, 130; kraken, 149; nautilus, 155; phœnix, 51; pigmies, 125; salamander, 60; serpent’s eggs, 147; sphinx, 82; stag, 15; unicorn, 9; wolf, 11
Plutarch’s giant, 130
Poison-detecting cups, 4, 6, 7
Poison of salamander, 62
Polonius and the whale, 152
Polyphemus, the foe of Ulysses, 99
Pomum Adami, 196
Pontoppidan, Kraken, 150; “Natural History of Norway,” 145
Poole’s “English Parnassus,” 103
Pope, nautilus, 155; “Rape of the Lock,” 119
Pope Pius II. on barnacle trees, 175
Porpoises as sea-serpents, 144
Porta’s “Humana Physiognomonia,” 93
Potto, 16
Prester John, 126
Prince of Wales, arms of, 232
Prior on the chameleon, 77
“Proper study of mankind is man,” 81
Psalms, reference to adder, 67; leviathan, 154; unicorn, 5
“Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 199
Puck, 102
Purchas Pilgrimage, 219
“Purple Island” of Fletcher, 51
Python, 20
Queen Elizabeth, badge of, 53
Queen Mab, 103, 120
Quentin Durward, Scott, 12
Raleigh, Sir W., voyage to Guiana, 95
Rameses II., 179, 233
Ram-headed fish, 160
“Rape of the Lock,” 119; of Lucrece, 70
“Rariorum Plantarum Historia” of Clusius, 181
Red-dragon ensign, 33
Red lion, 3
Reginald Scot on witchcraft, 103
Regulus, 46
“Relations of some yeares Travaile,” 186
“Reliques of Antient English Poetry,” 34, 56, 211
“Reminiscences,” Taylor, 145
Remora, 158
Resurrection, phœnix type of, 50
Rhinoceros horn cups, 7
Rhodes, dragon of, 231
Ribbon fish, 145
Richardson on phœnix, 54
Riddle of the sphinx, 83
Robin Goodfellow, 102, 119
Roc, 69, 137
Romanus, St., dragon-slayer, 20
“Romeo and Juliet,” 40, 45, 190
Rompo or man-eater, 12
Rondelet’s sea-monsters, 161
Rose as mark of cadency, 232
Royal arms, supporters of, 6
Royal Society, Proceedings of, 10, 71, 230
Rustic beliefs as to newts, &c., 64
Sacred trees, 177
Sagittarius, 85
Saint George and the dragon, 23, 211
Saint Mary Redcliff, large bone at, 59
Saints as dragon-slayers, 20, 21
Salamander, 60
Sanguis huppæ, 137
Satyrs, 86, 229
Saxo Grammaticus on barnacle tree, 174
Saxon martyrology, 32
Scaliger on basilisk, 49
Scoresby’s “Voyages,” 92
Scot, Reginald, on witchcraft, 103
Scotland and the unicorn, 6
Scott, elf-possession, 113; friar’s lantern, 123; wolf, 12
Sketches of Nineveh and Persepolis, 19, 128
Scythian lamb, 71
Sea bishop, 161; elephant, 72, 145; hare, 200; horse, 72; lion, 160; monk, 161; serpent, 48, 141
Selden’s “Titles of Honour,” 32
Sensitive plant, 198
Seraffa of Breydenbach, 63
Serpent worship, 141, 163
Shakespeare, basilisk, 48; cockatrice, 45; dragon, 39; fire-drake, 147; griffin, 70; harpy, 87; mandrake, 188; Pegasus, 73; phœnix, 53, 218; pigmies, 126; will-o’-the-wisp, 123; unicorn, 217
Sigonius on basilisk, 49
Sileni Alcibiadis, 226
Sindbad the Sailor, 69, 138
Siren, 14, 89, 224, 229
Sirena, 18
Sirenia, 92
Sir Walter Raleigh and Guiana, 95
“Sketches of Perthshire,” 121
Skimker, Mistress, 92
Sloane Library, 218
Smollett’s “Peregrine Pickle,” 162
Solinus on basilisk, 49
Sourd story from the Field, 65
South Kensington Museum, 184
Sowing of dragon’s teeth, 38
Spenser’s “Visions of the World’s Vanity,” 159
Sphinx, 82, 220
Spirits of the mine, 117
“Spleen,” Matthew Green, 132
Squier’s “Serpent Worship,” 163
Stag, 14
Standard of Bartolomeo d’Alviano, 6
Staple Hill stone ring, 58
Star as mark of cadency, 232
Stephen, arms of King, 85
“Stirpium Adversaria Nova,” 175
Strabo on pigmies, 125
Stronsay, sea monster at, 146
Struy’s Voyages, 219
Stuttgard anthropophagi, 98
Suchenwirt on battle-cries, 32
Supporters of the Royal Arms, 4, 6
Surinam, clawed men of, 97
Sylene and its dragon, 22
Sylphs, 119
Sylvester’s “Corona Dedicatoria,” 53
Symbol, dragon as a, 28; stag as a, 15
Symbolism of phœnix, 50, 55
Tacitus, Dead Sea apples, 196; phœnix, 55
Tailed men, 93
Talmud, legends of the, 152, 159
“Taming of the Shrew,” 73
Tartarian lamb, 71
Tartaros and Ge, rebellion of, 131
Tasso’s “Jerusalem Delivered,” 99
Tausend-gulden-kraut, 224
Tavernier on birds of paradise, 135
Taylor’s “Reminiscences,” 145
“Tempest,” fairy-rings, 108; harpy, 87; phœnix, 218; unicorn, 218
Templars, device of the, 74
Tennant’s “Ceylon,” 127
Tertullian on phœnix, 50
“Theater of Plants,” Parkinson, 172, 190
“Theatrum Botanicum,” 180
Thebes, founding of, by Kadmos, 38
Theocritus, on wolf, 11
Theseum at Athens, 224
Thevet on unicorn, 9
“Three hundred animals,” 2, 44
Throne of Tippoo Sultan, 136
“Titles of Honour,” Selden, 32
“Toilers of the Sea,” Victor Hugo, 150
Tomb of Bolyai, 197
Travellers’ tales, 195, 216
“Travels,” Breydenbach, 62
Tree of Life, 176
Tree of the Imagination, 176
Trichrug, the giant’s chair, 130
Tritons, 90
“Troilus and Cressida,” 39
Tsi-hiai and the pheg, 152
Tuacua, unicorns of, 231
Turner, barnacle geese, 175; herbal, 182
“Twelfth Night,” 45
Typhon, 20
“Uganda and the Eastern Soudan,” 7
Ulysses and Polyphemus, 99
Umdhlebi tree, 187
Unicorn, 3, 62, 217, 229
Upas tree, 184
Upton on the harpy, 88
Vampyre, 14, 74
Vartomannus on unicorn, 9
Vatican Library, 218
Vegetable lamb, 71
“Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” 188
Venetus, Paulus, on unicorn, 9
Veran, St., dragon-slayer, 20
“Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon,” of Bruynswyke, 182
Victor Hugo, “Toilers of the Sea,” 150
Victor, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Virgil, centaur, 84; evil eye, 47; harpy, 88; wolf, 11
Virtuosi, discoveries of, 10
Vishnu, 20
“Visions of the World’s Vanity,” Spenser, 159
Viva, herb, 198
Voraigne’s “Legenda Aurea,” 22
“Voyages,” Hackluyt, 97; Raleigh, 95; Scoresby, 92; Struy, 219
Vulcan and the Cyclops, 99
“Vulgar Errors,” Sir Thomas Browne, 31, 69
Wantley, dragon of, 33
“Warwickshire” of Dugdale, 55
Water fairies, 102
Waterton on vampyre bat, 76
Weasel and cockatrice combat, 45
Wehr-wolf or loup-garou, 75
Wexel balg, 229
Whale bones in churches, 60
White Horse Hill, Berkshire, 33
Wild boar, 15; ox, 15
William de Valence, arms of, 134
Will o’ the wisp, 122
Winged serpent, 19
“Wisdom of the Ancients,” Bacon, 219, 224
Witches, 103
Wolf, 11, 30
“Woman Hater,” Beaumont and Fletcher, 48
Wright on De Thaun, 218
Wynkyn de Worde, 22
Xanthus, monument from, 87
Ylio of De Thaun, 68
Young’s “Night Thoughts,” 126
Zeus, ambrosial locks of, 184; rebellion against, 131
Zodiac, the Sagittarius, 85
Zululand, poisonous trees in, 187
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Page 236—Brittannica amended to Britannica—“Britannica Concha Anatifera,”, 175
Page 237—Cocatrice amended to Cockatrice—Cockatrice, 44
Page 237—Royeaux amended to Royaux—Comptes Royaux of France, 6
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Page 239—Pallisir amended to Palliser—“Historic Badges,” Palliser, 6
Page 239—Joducus amended to Jodocus—Jodocus Hondius, 95
Page 240—Nixes amended to Nixies—Nixies, 102
Page 240—Nuremberg amended to Nuremburg—“Nuremburg Chronicle,” 97
Page 242—Rondolet’s amended to Rondelet’s—Rondelet’s sea-monsters, 161
Page 242—Sinbad amended to Sindbad—Sindbad the Sailor, 69, 138
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