Index

A

Aaf Mountains, 207

Abarimon, 114

Abbadie, 130

Abchaz, 220

Abdallah of the Land, 3

Abdallah of the Sea, 3

Aberdeen Almanac, 102

Abodes of the Blest, 257-261, 262, 336-337

Abomey, 180, 183, 188

Absalom, 188

Abu baraquish, 60

Abul Abbas, 61

Abulfeda, 362

Abyssinia, 38, 54, 74, 75, 76, 130, 178, 239

Academy of Armory, 66

Acephalites, 109, 346, 349, 368, 372

Acheron River, 262

Achilles, 152, 153

Acoloro, island of, 158

Acoma, 323

“Acorn-eaters,” 247

Acridophagi, 198-199

Acroconopes, the, 103

Actæon, 28

Actium, 97

Adam assayed, 357

Adam of Bremen, 160, 268, 335

Adam’s footprint, 8

Adam’s Peak, 8

Addison, Launcelot, 42

Aden, 267;

Gulf of, 233

Adriatic Sea, 249

Ægean Sea, 186, 187

Ægipans, 206

Ælian, 39, 53, 55, 56, 81, 96, 123, 286, 350

Æneas, 76

Æneid, 75

Æschylus, 96, 194, 202, 207

Æsculapius, 84

Æsop’s fables, 375

Ætas, the, 137, 148

Æthicus of Istria, 138

Æthiopica of Marcellus, 286

Æthiopis, 152

Afer, Dionysius, 8

Afghans, 353, 359

Africa, 2, 49, 78, 105, 122, 125, 134, 143, 145, 147, 153, 196, 199, 206, 207, 211, 263, 270, 351, 364

Africa’s warrior women, 178-184

Age of Fable, 348

Agate, 24

Agatharcides, 199, 353

Age of Ignorance, 362

Agira, 163

Agostina, 174

Agriophagi, 199

Aguirre, 304

Ahacus, 320

Aigamuxa, 115

Aigiarm, 170

Aikeambenanos, 166

Ajasson, 90

Akbar, 237

Akkas, the, 132, 144, 145, 147, 149

Alabama, 319

Aladdin, 72, 73, 218

Alani, the, 193

Alarcon, 321

Albany, land of, 194

Albatross, 74

Albertus Magnus, 140, 350

Albinos, 193-194

Alciphron, 60

Aldrovandi, 79, 140, 212

Aleutian Islands, 106, 255, 360

Alexander, 19, 63, 81, 91, 232, 235, 236, 237, 259, 353

Alexandria, 223, 353, 354

Algonquins, 81, 118, 119, 303, 369

Al Istakhri, 362

Aljahedh, 362

Allerion, 66

Alligator god, 338

Alps, the, 80, 191, 203

Altai Mountains, 55, 117

Alton, 80

Alvarado, 323, 324

Alvares, Father, 178

Amazons, 2, 84, 118, 151-189, 207, 237, 362, 365, 368, 369, 375

Amazon march, 177

Amazon stone, 24

Amazons, River of the, 161, 300, 304, 312

Amazuni, 167

Amber, 105, 201, 229, 264

Ambergris, 364

Ambrose, 350

America, dragon in, 85;

Lucian’s reference to, 275;

Plato’s reference to, 287;

claim that St. Brendan discovered it, 259;

Chinese Buddhists reached it, 360;

Norse discovery of, 267;

discovery of by Columbus, 272-3, 371

American Bureau of Ethnology, 323

American Indian myths, 65, 117-120, 368-370

American Museum of Natural History, 146

American southwest, Ararats in, 292

Amerigo Vespucci, 191, 315

Amethyst, 24

Amiens, cathedral at, 47

Ammon, Abbot, 45

Amoy, 244

Amycteres, the, 108

Anahuac, plateau of, 318

Anamba Islands, 129

A’nasa, 54

Ancient Mariner, 336

Andaman Islanders, 106, 147, 148, 365

Andari, 144

Andes Mountains, 139, 149, 192, 290, 300, 305, 316, 332

“Andromeda, a great giant,” 366

Angola, 102, 125, 179

Anguilla, 96

Animal kingdom, 27-48

Animals, Avenue of, 54

Animals, criminal trials of, 31

Animals, their names borne by men, 29;

taking human form, 29;

politics of, 42

Annam, 149, 199

Annwfir, 260

Ant, 42, 43, 217, 253, 303, 361;

gold-guarding, 62-64

Antennarius marmoratus, 279

Anthropology, 291, 353

Anthropophagi, 114, 117, 128, 196, 207, 237

Antichrist, 239

Antigon, 28

Antilia, 252, 345, 375

Antilles, the, 163, 292, 296, 375

Antiope, 153

Antipodes, 9-10, 346

Antoninus, 358

Antony, Mark, 97, 246

Anubis, 338

Anuradhapura, 214

Anutschin, 115

Ape, 48, 121, 356

Aphrodisiacs, 20, 22

Apollo, 201, 203

Apple Island, 345

Apples of Adam, 358

Apurimac, valley of the, 314

Arab geography, 269, 362-363

Arabia, 1, 2, 50, 69, 95, 104, 171, 195, 224, 229, 231, 234, 245, 358, 365

Arabian Nights, 3, 16, 63, 74, 110, 159, 251, 354

Arabian Sea, 261

Araby the Happy, 232

Arachne, 28

Arapahoes, the, 139

Arawaks, the, 292

Arcadia, 1, 77, 246-248

Arctic night, 221

Arctinus, 151, 152

Ardnainiq, the, 112

Aretias, island of, 77

Argensola, 206

Argonauts, 75, 77

Argos, 174

Ariana, 197

Arimaspians, 55, 107

Arinadillo, 218

Ariosto, 373

Aristeas of Proconesus, 107, 349

Aristophanes, 285, 373

Aristotle, 12, 16, 39, 50, 51, 59, 135, 334, 353, 354

Arjuna, Rajah, 156, 157

Ark, 87, 292

Arkansas River, 326

Armada, the, 306

Armenia, 60, 100, 113, 151, 171, 185, 195, 238, 258

Aromatic Cape, 10, 231

Arngrim, 92

Arrian, 154, 196, 197, 225

Artemidorus, 81, 195

Artemis Stymphalia, 77

Arthur, King, 64, 256, 259

Art’s beginning in magic, 376

Aryan culture, 357

Asafœtida, 94

Asesa, 143

Asia, 1, 2, 109, 135, 136, 148, 196, 211, 212, 213, 267, 351, 364

Asia Minor, 135, 153, 169, 186, 281, 283, 365

Ass, 46, 48, 122, 338, 361, 374;

Feast of the, 48;

Baalam’s, 370

Ass-bittern, 67

Assuan, 143

Assyria, 56, 66, 169

Astarte, 186, 187

Astolpho, home of, 76

Astomi, the, 107-108

Astrakhan, 237

Astronomy, Maya, 293, 294

Asuang, 111

Asuncion, 300, 311

Aswamedha quest, 156, 157

Atahnallpa, Inca, 313, 333

Atbara River, 199

Athenæus, 350

Athens, 83, 281, 286

Athos, Mount, 193

Atlantes, 194

Atlantic Ocean, 1, 104, 252, 256, 261, 262-273, 277, 278, 287, 289, 291

Atlantis, 1, 252, 254, 255, 266, 274, 276, 277, 278, 280, 281-297, 369

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, 288

Atlas Mountains, 140, 206, 264, 282, 290

Atrato River, 331

Attica, 122, 152, 153, 154

Attic Nights, 349

Augustus, 90, 96, 236

Aurochs, 55

Aurungzebe, 170

“Austin the monk,” 128

Australia, 11, 255, 328, 329

Autolycus, 249

Avalon, isle of, 259, 345

Avernus, lake of, 262

Ayamanes, 139

Azerbaijan, 337

Azores, the, 12-13, 255, 271, 275, 277, 280, 287, 288, 289, 290

Azov, Sea of, 154, 156, 358

Aztecs, 189, 204, 292, 338

B

Baalam, 53

Baalim, 185

Baboons, fear of, 126

Babylon, 122, 204, 238, 260, 358

Babylonia, 85, 87

Bacchus, 203

Bactrians, 55

Badger’s legs, 44

Bagdad, 362

Bagrada River, 37

Bahama Islands, 278, 314

Bailey, 128

Baker, Sir Samuel, 36, 135

Ba-Kwamba tribe, 130

Balasses, 244

Balboa, 76, 330, 331-332

Balm of Gilead, 230

Baltic Sea, 100, 114, 151, 160, 254

Bamboo Books, 71

Bancroft, 307

Banda, 206

Bandelier, 322, 326

Bangkok, 177

Banshee, 99

Bantam, 177, 184

Bantu, the, 149

Barbarism defined, 357

Barbarossa, Frederick, 220

Barcelona, 174

Barentz, 41

Barns of Joseph, 358

Basil, 20, 350

Basilisk, 2, 78

Bassorah, Hassan el, 159

Bastards of the Kalahari Desert, 146

Bat, 76, 77, 217, 245, 331, 340, 344

Bates, 75, 76, 126

Battalion of Death, 154, 156, 174-177

Batu, 106

Batwas, the, 145

Baurded, Treasurer, 143

Bears, 43, 65, 118, 128, 374;

as men bewitched, 29

Beasts, fabulous, 49-67

Beasts of Revelation, 65

Beazley, 363

Becket, Thomas à, 128

Bede, 6

Bedouins, 365

Bedtime stories, 370, 375

Bee, 44

Beelzebub, the fly god, 30

Beetle, 217, 218, 303

Beeton, 193

Behrs, the, 184

Belalcazar, 299, 301

Bellerophon, 152

Belloc, 216

Belzoni, 18

Benjamin of Tudela, 108, 238, 243, 358

Bennu, 70

Benzom, gum, 230

Berber rock-towns, 195

Bermuda Islands, 101, 278, 288

Bernier, 170

Bertinoro, 17

Beryl, 25

Bes, 150

Bestiaries, 46, 375

Bezoar, 24, 38

Bible, 83, 86, 122, 185, 192, 213, 338

Bibliography, 378-383

Bielovodye, 222

Big-footed men, 2

Billdad, 66

Bimini, 314, 315

Bird of paradise, 43

Birds, 373

Birthstone, 24

Bishop-fish, 100

Black River, 136

Black Sea, 135, 151, 153, 187, 268

Black Side of Cathedral, 204

“Black Virgin,” 171

Bladder as sky, 119

“Blameless” peoples, 203

Brazil, 95, 123, 126, 188, 193, 218, 299, 375

Blefkens, 133

Blemmyes, the, 109

Blessed Islands, 258-261, 262

Bloodstone, 24

Blue-land, 268

Boadicea, 169

Boccias Islands, 102

Bogaz Keni, 186

Bogota, 301, 304

Bohemia, 171, 248-250

Bokhara, 240

Bolivia, 294, 299, 311

Bongo tribe, 129

Book of the Cities and Marvels of Countries, 362

Book of Climates, 362

Book of Diversities, 363

Book of Roads and Kingdoms, 362

Books, virtue in all, 354

Borneo, 94, 129, 158, 159, 335

Bororo Indians, 27

Bosman, 179

Bossewell, 66

Boston Linnæan Society, 94

Botanic Garden, 58

Botchkareva, Maria, 156, 174-177

Bothnia, Gulf of, 93

Bo-tree, Sacred, 216

Bottle-imps, 22

Bouchey, Margaret, 23

Bougainville, 138, 329

Boundary between Old and New World, 277

Bounteous Isle, 253

Bourbourg, Abbé Brasseur de, 293

Bourgogne, Jean de, 365, 367

Boys, maiming of, 172

Bradamante, 172

Bragman, isle of, 260

Brahma, 205, 338

Bran, 89

Breadfruit, 260

Breezes, generative, 50

Brest, 289

Brhaspati, 338

Bridge of tortoises, 359

Bridinno, dwarf land of, 138

Britannus, 344

British Columbia, 360

British Isles, 9, 203, 254, 263, 264, 274, 290, 296, 351

Brittany, 256

Brobdingnag, 373

Bronze Age, 294

Browne, Sir Thomas, 23, 39, 44, 53, 69, 78, 99, 140, 334, 350

Bruce, 71

Brundusium, 349

Brushwood Town, 128

Brusilov, 175

Brynhild, 79

Buache, 369

Bucephali, 103

Buchanan, 125

Buddha, 215, 361

Buddhism, 188, 240, 261, 360

Buenos Aires, 311

Buffalo, 6, 318, 319, 323, 324, 325;

Caffrarian, 56

Buffon, 33, 35, 43, 77, 111, 140, 141, 192, 350

Bull, 81, 338, 342, 367

Bulotu, 260

Bunyan, 262, 367

Bunyan, Paul, 66

Bunyip, 95

Buried cities, 213-215

Burma, 269, 293, 364

Burrowing creatures, 218

Burton, Lady, 180

Burton, Sir Richard, 159, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183

Busbequins, 63

Bushmen, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 227

Bustard, 210

Butterfly, 344

Buzzard, 370

Byssus silk, 59

Byzantium, 361

C

Cabeza, de Vaca, 319, 372

Cabul, 62

Cadiz, 224, 306, 308

Cæsaristas, the, 317

Cæsars of South America, 317

Calabash, 159, 321, 361

Caldilhe, 58

Caliban, 104

California Indians, 8

California, island of, 158

California, State of, 127, 283, 360

Callao, 328

Calypso, 354

Cambodia, 195, 269

Cambyses, 15

Camel, 42, 50, 62, 63, 81, 210, 232, 361;

flying, 358

Cametennus, 361

Campanella, 373

Camulatz, the bird, 293

Canada, 290

Canary Islands, 258, 265, 270, 287, 290, 345, 359

Canelas, 300, 301

Cape Bojador, 272

Cape Cod, 289

Cape of Good Hope, 270, 278

Cape Guardafui, 10, 156, 231

Cape Hatteras, 288

Cape Santa Elena, 192

Cape of Spices, 231

Cape Verde Islands, 287, 289, 290

Cappadocia, 185, 186, 195

Capricorn, 67

Caqueta River, 302, 303

Carbuncle, 24

Carchemish, 185

Cardan, 140

Cardinal Points, 203-205

Caribbean Sea, 160, 290, 291, 296, 299, 300, 369

Carib, island of, 160

Caribs, the, 166, 217, 291, 292

Caribou, 29

Carlyle, 172

Caroline Islands, 158

Caroni River, 305, 311

Carp, 81

Carpini, 104, 106, 113, 194, 258

Cartagena, 330

Carteret, 329

Carthage, 123, 263, 264, 271, 274

Cartooning humanity, 103

Caspian Sea, 237

Cassia, 231, 233, 234, 243

Cassiquiare River, 304

Cassiterides, the, 263

Castaneda, 322

Castelnau, 125, 130

Castor, 94

Cat, 253, 338

Cataclysm in New World myth, 292, 294

Catalan map, 90, 160

Cat-fish, 6, 67

Cathay, 106, 113, 222, 240, 312, 365

Cathedrals, animal symbolism in, 46-48, 375

Catoblepas, 36

Caucasus Mountains, 72, 114, 153, 171, 193, 194, 195, 207, 235, 237

Cave drawings, 340

Celtic glamour, 256, 348

Celts, 83, 367

Central America, 77, 291-294, 297

Celebes, 242

Cellar strain in human nature, 217

Cellini, Benvenuto, 38

Centaur, 66, 114, 361

Central point of earth, 7

Cephalopod, 95

Cercopes, the, 125

Cerne, 275

Ceylon, 42, 157, 160, 258, 363

Chalcedony, 25

Chaldea, 98, 159, 366

Chambers’ Journal, 142

Chameleon, 366

Chamlakhu, 127

Chains of Indo-China, 31

Chao Fu-Kua, 137

Chaos, 86

Chardin, 171

Charia, Isle of, 366

Charlemagne cycle, 56, 75, 76, 95

Charles III of Spain, 318

Charles V of Spain, 317

Charlevoix, Father, 343

Charon’s ferry, 262

Chassenée as rat advocate, 31

Chatan, pygmy city of, 138

Chelonophagi, the, 96, 198

Chenoos, the, 119

Cherokees, the, 217

Chestnuts, 283

Chiau Yau, 136

Chibcha Indians, 301, 312

Chichen Itza, 291

Childbirth, a means of promoting, 24

Chilean mythology, 338

Chimæra, 66

China, 59, 60, 72, 73, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 113, 137, 147, 203, 218, 230, 259, 267, 269, 318, 335, 349, 359, 360, 364, 365

China seas, 74

Chinese discovery of North America, 360

Chinese Encyclopedia, 57, 107

Chinese wall, 139, 237

Chiquitos, the, 139

Chiriqui Indians, 338

Choquequirau, 314, 332

Choromandæ, the, 104

Chrism, devil’s, 78

Christ symbolized by unicorn, 53;

called the phœnix, 69

Christian fabulists, 356

Christian pilgrims, 356, 357-358

Christian symbolism, 375

Chronicle of the Cid, 177

Chrysolite, 25, 207

Chrysoprase, 24

Churchward, 149

Cibola, 303, 312, 314, 318-323

Ciconian coast, 228

Cilician pirates, 265

Cimarron republics, 165

Cimbri, the, 3

Cinnabar, 33

Cinnamon, 231, 233, 234, 243;

Land of, 301, 312

City of Brass, 110

City of God, 356

City of Hump-backed Women, 361

City of Mexico, 312, 321, 322

City of the Sun, 2, 69, 373

Classic myth, 375

Claudius, 69

Closet philosophers, 369

Clothing, origin of, 87

Cloud-centaurs, 103

Cloud-Cuckoo Town, 285, 373

Clouds of Magellan, 311

Cloves, 230, 243, 245

Coast Range, 283

Coata, 124

Cobra, 112

Cochin-China, 137, 243

Cock, 30, 44

Cockaigne, Land of, 374

Cockatrice, 66, 77-78

Cock’s egg, 78

Cocytus River, 262

Cod, 96

Colic, a cure for, 24

Coligny, 306

Collecteanea, 355, 356

Colombia, 207, 300, 301, 302, 311, 312

Colorado River, 318, 321

Columbus, 10, 12, 102, 130, 151, 160, 161, 167, 242, 258, 270, 271, 274, 277, 279, 368, 371

Comedy, Greek, 339

Commercial subtlety, 244

Communal houses, 303, 327

Comorin, Cape, 149

Compass, 7

Composite creatures, doctrine of, 341

Concepcion, 316

Condor, 74

“Conflict between Horus and Set,” 86

Confucius on jade, 24

Congo, 178, 179

Conquistadors, 299-333, 368, 369

Constantinople, 359

Constellations, animal forms of, 30

Conway, 206

Cook, Capt., 124

Cool Lake, 7

Coos Bay giants, 192

Copper, 327;

Age, 294;

Mountains, 207

Coptic Christians, 239

Cordilleras, 207, 273, 300, 301

Cordoba, 60, 362

Corentyne River, 167

Cornelius Nepos, 228

Corn spirit, 30

Cornwall, 255, 263, 309

Coromandel Coast, 196

Coronado, 320, 321-326, 368

Corsali, 74

Cortez, 188, 292, 329

Corvo, 271

Cosmas, 6, 34, 52, 362

Cossack colonel a woman, 177

Costa Rica, 127

Cotton-plant, 59

Cotzbalam, the bird, 293

Cougnantainsecouima, the, 164

Council of Virgins, 172

Country of the Dwarfs, 142

Country of Widows, 158

Country of Women, 156

Court of the Universe, 284

Cow, 257, 374

Cowry shell, 87

Coyote, 106, 118, 370, 374

Crab, 30, 43, 61, 97

Cradle of Gold, 312, 332

Cramps, a cure for, 24

Crane, 2, 42, 118, 350;

war with pygmies, 141

Crantor, 286

Crayfish, 245

Creative caricature, 340

Credulity of Greeks, 353

Crete, 287

Cricket, 81, 361

Crimean war, 171

Criminal courts of birds, 42

Critias, the, 281, 282, 285

Crocker Land, 255

Crocodile, 36-37, 45, 47, 338, 361

Cromagnons, the, 190

Crow Indians, 139

Crusaders, 186

Ctesias, characterized, 352-353;

cited, 18, 19, 25, 35, 37, 51, 52, 55, 57, 63, 105, 106, 109, 113, 133, 135, 191, 193, 335, 349, 350, 352, 353, 354, 366

Cuatas, the, 123

Cuba, 130

Cuchiviro, Rio, 166

Cuckoo, 44

Cundinamarca, plateau of, 298, 300, 301

Cupidity, a cure for, 24

Curupira, 126, 127

Cush, 17

Cushing, 323

“Customs” of Dahomey, 179

Cuttlefish, men mistaken for, 27

Cuvier, 36, 54, 140, 141, 142, 144, 350

Cuzco, 314, 316, 332

Cybele, 186

Cyclopes, 253, 361

Cyme, 153, 187

Cynocephali, 105, 351, 367

Cyrenaica, 212

Cyrene, 78, 134

Cyrne, 193

Cyrus the Great, 169

Czecho-Slovakia, 248

D

Da Gama, 242, 244

Dahomey, 179-183

Dahut, Princess, 256

Dalay River, 138

Damastes, 202

Dampier, 77, 198, 245

Dance macabre, 47

Dancing negresses, 182

Dandini, 25

Daniel, Abbott, 358

D’Annunzio, 341

Danube River, 153, 203

Dardæ, 63

Darkness, legends as to, 220-221

Darwin, Charles, 112, 316

Darwin, Erasmus, 58

David, 226

Davy, 102

De Acunha, Father, 163

Dead Sea, 358

Deadly upas tree, 20

De Arguello, 316

Death-watch, 44

De Berreo, 305, 306, 308

Deccan, 177

De Chaves, 311

Dee, River, 102

Deer, 81, 127, 327, 374

Deformed Folk, 352

De Gamboa, 328

De la Mare, 255

De Leon, Diego Flores, 317

De Leon, Ponce, 314, 315

Delicious Isle, 253

Delight-makers, 370

Delight of Those Who Seek to Wander Through the Regions of the World, 362

Delisle, 369

Delos, 201

Delphi, 201

Deluded Folk, eight, 270

Deluge, 87, 292, 297

Delusive water, 312

De Maillet, 89

Demons, 376

De Ortribia, 315

De Proveda, 304

Derbent, 237

Derceto, 98, 186

Descouret, 130

Description of Greece, 353

Desert, 2, 199, 209-215

De Silva, 300, 304

“Destruction of Mankind,” 86

Deucalion, 292

De Urreta, 15

De Ursua, 304

Devil, cult of in Florida, 4

Devil-fish, 67

Devil-mask of the Jurupary, 163

De Weltheim, 64

Diable Borteux, 126

Diamond, 24, 87, 244

Diana of the Ephesians, 186

Diana in Autun, 215

Dicuil, 8

Digby, Sir Kenelm, 212

Dinosaur, 82

Diodorus Siculus, 25, 35, 43, 49, 77, 96, 153, 165, 185, 197, 198, 199, 202

Dionysus, 122

Disappearing Islands, 1, 256-257

Disraeli, 359

Ditter, island of, 251

Dobayba, temple of, 76

Dodona, oak of, 215

Dog, 30, 49, 56, 64, 89, 293, 340;

husbands, 29

Dogfish, 87

Dog-headed people, 105-107, 349, 351, 360, 367

Dog-ribs, the, 106

Dog Star, 14, 233

Dolmen, 343

Dolphin, 90-91, 103

Dondun, 109

Donnelly, Ignatius, 278, 294

Don steppes, 156

D’Orbigny, 139

Dordogne cave paintings, 376

Dos Santos, 35, 73

Doughty, 210

Doul-Karnain, 236

Dove, 47

Dowarnenez, Bay of, 256

Dragon, 2, 32, 45, 47, 53, 56, 58, 65, 66, 79-88, 98, 268, 331, 344, 360, 361, 367, 375

Dragonfly, 217, 344

Dragon-tyger, 67

Dragon-wolf, 67

Drake, 3, 245, 277, 306, 329

Dravidians, 146

Drawings, Primitive, 340

Dread of thick foliage, 216

Dream Quests of Spain, 312-333

Dreams, 339, 372

Dromedary, 361

Druids, 257, 265, 296

Drums, magic, 241

Drunkards, 374

Dryads, 216

Du Chaillu, 142

Duck, 30

Duff Islands, 329

Duirs, the, 129

Dumb-barter, 15, 104

Dunashki, 137

Du Pin, Jean, 365

Dutch East India Company, 245

Dwarf-gods of Egypt and Phœnicia, 150

Dwarfs, 268, 343, 363, 372

Dyaks, the, 36

E

Eagle, 47, 56, 81, 374

Eagle-stone, 24

Earth, size and shape of, 5-13

Earth-holders, 6, 30, 370

East, 204-205

East African islands, 96

Easter Island, 255

Eastern Roman Empire, 239, 265

East Indies, 79, 328

Ecbatana, 238

Ecclesiastical suits against vermin, 31-32

Echo, the, 339

Eclipses, 30

Ecuador, 13, 302

Edam, 100

Eden, 87, 257, 258, 357

Eden, Richard, 241

Edom, land of, 224, 226

Eel, 43, 96;

“eel-mother,” 96

Eel-like men, 112

Egede, Hans, 94

Egypt, 2, 69, 85, 142, 143, 144, 169, 186, 204, 210, 230, 281, 286, 340, 351, 365

Emmet valley, 63

Elbe River, 248

Elders, Animal, 65

El Dorado, 161, 298-310, 348, 369

Elephant, 32-34, 43, 46, 51, 57, 109, 284, 291, 343, 351, 361, 374;

tower, 33

Elephantine, 143

Elephantophagi, 199

Eleusinian mystery, 184

El Gran Moxo, 312, 333

El Gran Paititi, 312, 333

Elixir of life, 88

Elizabethan age, 305

Elizabeth, Queen, 306, 307, 369

Elm’s refreshing shadow, 19

El Turco, 324, 325, 326

Elysium, 217, 220, 257-261, 262

Emerald, 24, 318

Emerson, 342

Empedocles, 341

Enchanted City of the Cæsars, 312, 316-318

Enchanted Islands, 327

Enchantments, a defense against, 24

Enciso, Bachelor, 330

Encyclopædia Britannica, 79, 144, 242

Encyclopædists, 350, 351, 356

Engano, 158

English Channel a ferry of souls, 266

Englishmen, tailed, 128

Enmities of birds, 44

Enotocoitae, the, 109

Enquiries of Browne, 350

Ephesus, 153, 186, 187

Epilepsy, treatment of, 24, 56

Epiphany, 358

Equatorial Current, 278

Equestrian statues, Carthaginian, 271

Eratosthenes, 10, 263

Ericson, Thorwald, 113

Eriphia, 20

Error the guiding star of discovery, 371

Erythræ, 63

Erythræan Sea, 353

Esdras, books of, 11

Eskimos, 4, 106, 108, 110, 112, 141, 145, 338, 369

Essay-writing, a dragon diet for, 81

Estevanico, 319, 320, 321, 323

Esther, book of, 187

Estland, 345

Estotiland, 345

Etearchus, 134, 135

Ethnography, 291

Ethiopia, 68, 104, 108, 113, 178, 193, 203, 235, 364, 365

Etymology as source of myths, 344-347

Eudoxus, 113

Euphrates River, 7, 185, 358

Euripides, 263

Europe, 106, 202, 264

Evangelists as beast-headed men, 339

Evans, 47

Eve, 84, 87, 112

Evolution of divine beast-men, 338

Evolution of the Dragon, 84

Ewaipanoma, 110

Expedition Island, 255

Ezekiel, book of, 235, 236

Ezion-geber, 224, 227

F

Fabric of Illusion, 334-347

Fabulous winged creatures, 68-78

Fa-hien, 360

Fairies, 150;

queen of, 359

Falcon-fish, 67

Falcon-man, 159

Falconry, 133

Familiars, 99

Fang-chang, 82

Farissol, Abraham, 17

Faroes, the, 93

Fatephur Sikri, 33

Father John, bird called, 71

Faun, 122, 361

Fayal, 306

Fear, myths of, 371

Feast of Reason, 173

Feast of the Valiant Women, 174

Feathered men, 349

Febrifuge, a, 24

Federmann, 301, 303, 332

Felfel Mountain, 206

Fen-shu, 57

Female Crusade, 172

Female incense, 233

Fertility emblems, 30

Festus Avienus, 275

Fezzan, 195

Fiddlers’ Green, 374

Fiend fly, 344

Fijis, 335

Filipinos, 127

Finland, 240, 335

Finn-folk, 242

Finnish magic songs, 241;

riddles, 346

First People, Indian, 28, 118, 119, 339, 342

Fish, a polygamous, 43

Fish-eating races, 196-198

Flaccus, 351

Flame of Life, 341

Flavianus, 90

Fleurieu, 369

Flint people, 370

Florida, 53, 102, 315, 319

Flying Dutchman, 276

Foersch, 20

Folk of Tradition, 190-200

Fonte perenni, 315

Forest, beliefs as to, 215-217

Formosa, 129

Fortunate Isles, 257-261, 262, 354

Fossils as source of myths, 295, 343, 344

Fountain of the Sun, 18

Fountain of Youth, 15, 312, 314-315, 365

Fouqué, 99

Fox, 29, 47, 342, 374

Fragrant Mountains, 7

France, 249, 255

France, Anatole, 342

Frankincense, 231

Franks, the, 266

Frazer, 187, 346

French Amazons, 172-174

Friar-fish, 67

Friars, begging, 338

Friedemann, 139

Friendly Islanders, 260

Friendships of birds, 44

Friesland, West, 100

Frobisher, 52

Frog, 30, 118

Fu-lin, 61

Fung-wang, 70

Furies, the, 265

G

Gadarenes, country of the, 44

Gaditanian Sea, 92

Gains of Fable, 371-377

Galen, 24

Galvano, 129

Gambia River, 263

Gamblers, 374

Gamphasantes, the, 199

Ganges River, 7, 203, 267

Garcias ab Horto, 53

Garcilaso de la Vega, 212

Gargoyles, 337

Garnet, 24, 244

Garuda, 134

Gaul, 9, 90, 203, 265

Geese, wild, 41-42

Gélélé, King, 179

Gellius, 349

Genesis, book of, 7, 22, 83, 224, 235, 282

Genghis Khan, 237, 239

Geographers, ancient, 350

Geography of Scents, 230-231

Gerini, 17, 129, 136, 269

Germain, Louis, 289, 290, 291

German Hydrographic Office, 278

Germany, 83, 96, 97, 99, 156, 356, 374

Gesner, 79

Gessi, 275

Getæ, the, 3

Ghauts, the, 149

Ghosts, merriment of, 4

Ghouls, 363;

isle of, 251

Giants, 190-193, 257, 268, 343, 361, 367, 368, 372;

stone, 117, 119

Gibbon, 240

Gibraltar, 1;

Straits of, 265, 267, 287, 288

Gihon, 7

Gila Canyon, 139

Gilbert, 306

Gilboa, Mount, 358

Gilded Man, the, 298-310

Gindanes, land of the, 227

Ginger, 243

Ginseng, 22, 23

Giraldus Cambrensis, 217

Glistening Heath, 79

Glooskap, 91, 119

Glow-worms, 245

Gnomes, 150

Gnu, 36

Goat, 30, 43, 122, 235, 338, 374

Gobi, Desert of, 2, 214, 360

Goddess of Liberty, 173

God-man, 188

God’s land of the Celts, 217

Gog and Magog, 1, 9, 207, 235-238, 362

Gold, 229, 244, 284, 327;

origin of use as money, 87;

Spanish quest of, 298-333

Gold Coast, 272

Golden Age, 208, 287, 336

Golden Apalache, 319

Golden Bough, 187

Golden Chain, adventure of, 332

Golden Chersonese, 12, 224, 230

Golden Fleece, 372

Golden Surface, the, 377

Goliath, 192

Good intentions, 373

Goodwin Sands, 255

Goose, 30

Gonges, Olympede, 173

Gorgons, 153, 212, 213

Gorilla, 123

Goths, 169

Gould, Baring, 98, 130

Gould, Charles, 54, 82

Gradlon, King, 256

Grand Lama of Tibet, 187

Grapes, 284

Grasshoppers, 38, 348

Grasshopper-eaters, 198

“Grasshopper warriors,” 144

Gravelly Sea, 211

“Great China,” 359

Great Han Country, 360

Great Mother, 186, 188

Great Saracen Land, 268

Great Syrtis, 194

Great toe, peculiar formation of, 199

Great Year, 70

Greece, 90, 100, 246, 247, 262, 352

Greenland, 94, 106, 133, 290

Green Sea of Gloom, 1, 269

Grenada, island of, 245

Gribble, 80

Griffin, 2, 55-56, 63, 64, 66, 67, 152, 253, 337, 350, 361, 367, 375

Grimm Brothers, 22, 193, 369

Guacaris, the, 163

Guadeloupe, 160

Guatemala, 118, 127, 293

Guatavita, Lake, 298, 299

Guaviare River, 302, 304

Guiana, 3, 110, 163, 292, 309, 310, 311, 346

Guillim, 52, 66

Gulf of California, 320, 321

Gulf of Mexico, 315, 319

Gulf of Oraba, 331

Gulf of Paria, 13

Gulf Stream, 278

Gulfweed, 280

Gumberoo, 66

Gum camphor, 20

Gum-tree country, 260

Gunhild, 241

Gwenland, 160

Gwyn ab Nudd, 368

Gymnetæ, the, 193

Gypsies, 222, 248, 249

H

Hacus, 320

Hadam, Eldad, 17

Hahua-chumpi, island of, 327

Haida, 6

“Hairy ones,” 122

Haiti, 260

Hakluyt, 3, 20, 34, 37, 101, 251, 307, 369

Halcyon, 43

Half-men, 111-112

Halls of the Giants, 359

Hamam Meskouteen, 212

Haman, 187

Hand of Satan, 272

Hanno, 123, 263

Hannum, 187

Hanuman, 124, 338

Hanyson, 220

Happy hunting grounds, 217

Harald Hardrada, 268

Hardouin, 70

Hare, 81, 374

Harem of a queen, 179

Harpies, 2, 66, 75-77, 375

Hart, 47

Hathor, 85, 87

Hatusapur, 156

Havaika, 260

Hav-fruen, 101

Havilah, 1, 7, 9, 223, 224, 225, 226

Hav-manden, 101

Hawk, 78, 338

Hawkins, 52, 252

Hawks, Henry, 322

Hayton, King, 106

Headless People, 109, 346, 349, 368, 372

Hebrew the natural speech, 357

Hecatæus, 202

Hedgehog, 47

Hedin, 208, 214

Hedjaz, 138

Hegesias, 349

Heifer, 28

Heimskringla, 267

Heine, 314

Helicon, Island of, 251

Heliogabalus, 69

Heliolithic culture, 373

Heliopolis, 69, 70

Hellebore, 204

Hellespont, 352

Hell-way, 204

Helyon, 52

Hen, 27, 245, 293, 366

Henry VII, 99

Henry the Navigator, Prince, 199, 225, 270, 271, 367

Heraldry, 2, 66-67

Herbenstein, 102

Hercules, 38, 77, 132, 152, 153, 202, 205

Hercynian birds, 356

Herkhuf, 143

Hermes, 96, 246

Hermits, beasts of, 45

Herodotus, characterized, 352;

cited, 14, 26, 55, 62, 63, 71, 72, 77, 104, 107, 123, 132, 134, 151, 154, 155, 193, 194, 195, 196, 202, 207, 228, 230, 231, 233, 234, 335, 349, 350, 353, 354, 361

Heroes of beast epics, 29

Heron, 70

Herrera, 191

Hesiod, 75, 202, 263, 287

Hesperides, the, 345

Hibernating Samoyeds, 116-117

Hiddekel, 7

Hierro, island of, 20

Hill and Sea Classic, 136

Hill of Little Devils, 208

Himalayas, the, 135, 149, 336, 343

Himantopodes, the, 114

Himilco, 263, 274

Himyarites, the, 226

Hionen Thsang, 157, 219, 360, 361

Hippocampus, 67

Hippo Diarrhytus, 90

Hippogrif, 56

Hippogypi, the, 103

Hippolyte, 153

Hippopotamus, 34-35, 338

Hiram of Tyre, 223

History of the Indies, 369

Hittites, 185-187

Ho-lao-lo-kia, vanished city of, 214

Holland, 245

Holme, 66

Holstein coast, 254

Holy Roman Empire, 99, 220, 248

Homer, 5, 7, 22, 132, 133, 140, 141, 199, 202, 227, 252, 287, 349, 352, 354, 363

Homocane, 67

Homunculus, 22

Hopi towns, 323

Horizon Lands, 201-222

Horned hogs, 245

Horned men, 361

Horneman, 130

Horse, 30, 51, 56, 122, 156, 157, 324

Hörselberg, 219

Horus, 86

Hospitality, proverb on, 335

Hottentots, 131, 146, 225, 227;

“click” of, 105

House of Song, 377

Houses of the Sun, 161, 332

Huallaga River, 333

Huanacos, 316

Huc, 115, 349

Hudson Bay Company, 221

Hugag, 66

Hugo, Victor, 249, 337

Huguenots, 306

Humboldt, characterized, 369;

cited, 26, 42, 126, 165, 166, 207, 271, 278, 288, 311

Humming bird, 30, 370

Hungarian Plain, 156

Huns, 154, 239

Hurakan, 293

Hyderabad, 177

Hydra, 66

Hyena, 35-36, 361

Hyparkhos River, 105

Hyperboreans, 201-203, 261

I

Ibanez, 169

Iberia, 203, 286

Ibis, 43, 71

Ibn Batuta, 42, 95, 106, 196, 243, 269, 362

Ibn Haukal, 362

Ibn Khaldun, 269

Ibn Khordadbeh, 137, 206, 362, 363

Iceland, 101, 289, 345

Ichthyophagi, 196-198

Ideal lands, 2, 257-261, 336-337, 351

Ideal states, 251

Idrisi, 8, 137, 270

Ignatius, 81

Iguanodon, 81

Iliad, 81, 133, 152, 363

Illampu, peak of, 207

Imaus, Mount, 114

Immaculate Conception, 42

Imrama, 258, 367

Im Thurn, 207

Incas, fugitive, 305, 333

Incense Country, the, 1, 229-235;

Route, 233;

battles, 230

Incontinency, how discovered, 24

India, 9, 55, 57, 64, 85, 104, 105, 106, 109, 113, 122, 124, 128, 133, 136, 141, 148, 188, 193, 203, 216, 219, 230, 261, 269, 351, 353, 359, 361, 364, 365

Indian Archipelago, 364

Indian Ocean, 1, 89, 91, 93, 196, 226, 231, 255, 263, 363, 365

Indika, 349, 353

Indo-China, 106, 136, 267

Indonesia, 135

Indus River, 7, 224

Inis Fitæ, 255

Inishbofin, 257

Insanity, a cure for, 24

Institute of Oceanography, 288

Insula de ben faminill, 160

Insula mulierum, 160

Insula virorum, 160

Insurrection of Women, 172

Intoxication, a preventive of, 24

Io, 28

Iran, 214, 337, 377

Ireland, 95, 99, 254

Irijo River, 165

Irish sea epics, 65, 252-253, 258, 367

Iron city, 157

Iroquois, 119, 343

Irving, 26

Is, sunken city of, 255-256

Isaiah, book of, 30, 77, 122

Isidore, characterized, 356-357;

cited, 121, 350, 351, 356

Iskander’s wall, 237

Isla de beimeni parte, 315

Isla de Mugeres, 160

Islam, 171, 233, 269, 270

Island of Death, 261

Island of Females, 158

Island of Life, 261

Island of Males, 158

Island of the Seven Cities, or of the Seven Bishops, 252, 259, 271, 319, 375

Islands, number of, 8

Islands of Enchantment, 251-261

Islands of the Sun, 271

Islas Encantadas, 327

Isle of the Blessed, 91

Isle of the Double Towers, 253

Isle of Finn, 253

Isle of Fire, 252

Isle of Flowers, 252

Isle of Gems, 158

Isle of Laughter, 253

Isle of a Saint, 253

Isle of Sheep, 253

Isle of Shouting, 252

Isle of witches, 253

Isogonus, 193, 349

Israel, 207, 226

Issedones, the, 107, 196

Istakhri, 60

Ister, the, 26

Istria, 249

Italy, 9, 129

Itys, 28

Ivan the Terrible, 241

Ivory, 57, 364

Ivory, apes and peacocks, 224

Ivory Coast, 179

J

Jacinth, 244

Jackal, 29, 338, 351

Jade, 23-24, 87, 162, 164;

Gate, 24

Jaguar god, 338

Jaitwas, 124

Janaidar, 208

Japan, 12, 97, 148, 259, 363, 364, 371

Jasconius, 91

Jason, 75

Jasper, 24

Java, 106, 158, 230, 242, 244, 260

Jehovah, 125, 236

Jenkinson, Anthony, 212

Jerba, 229

Jerusalem, 125, 238, 267, 282, 328, 357;

center of the earth, 7

Jesuits, 102, 317

Jet, 351

Jews, 47, 185, 244, 357, 358;

legendary kingdoms of, 18, 238;

with tails, 345;

black pygmy, 138

Jew’s-harps, 110

Jinga, Queen, 179

Joan of Arc, 169;

and bottle imp, 23

Job, 46;

his dunghill, 358

Job, book of, 223

John of Herse, 52

Johnson, Doctor, 50

Johnston, Sir Harry, 126, 150, 343

Joliet, 80

Joppa, 366

Jordan, River, 315, 358

Jordanus, 104

Josephus, 7, 17, 22, 71

Judas on his rock, 253

Judy, the, 100

Jujube, 229

Julian, Emperor, 22

Julius Cæsar, 236, 246, 265

Juno, temple of, 123

Jupiter Ammon, oasis of, 18

Juruena River, 124

“Just” peoples, 203

Justin, 165

K

Kabyles, the, 206

Kadesh, 186

Kaidu, 170

Kali, 338

Kalm, 40

Kanakas, the, 260

Kangaroo, 341

Kansas, 326

Karabel, Pass of, 186

Kara-Khitai, the, 113

Karaya myth, 292

Karelian, 149

Kasil, island of, 206

Kaska tribesmen, 343

Kataphugia, 195

Kathkuri, 124

Kazwini, 60, 104, 114

Keane, 199, 226

Kent, 128

Kerensky, 175

Kerner, Justinus, 25

Kibu, island of, 260

Ki-lin, 54

Kilsapheen, Lost, 256

Kine of Cibola, 318

King of Faerie, 368

Kingdom of Dogs, 107

Kingdom of Women, 349, 360, 361

Kingsley, 45

Kinship with animals, 374-375

Kirata, the, 134, 136

Kirghiz, the, 208

Klebermeer, 16

Kobolds, 150

Kohistan, 211

Koliwan, Lake, 117

Kollman, 148, 150

Komana, 186

Koran, 235, 236, 269

Kordofan, 54

Korean tradition of inhabited lands, 8

Kors Trold, 92

Korwars, the, 200

Kraken, 2, 92-93

Krokottas, 35

Krümmel, 278

Kublai Khan, 12, 73, 364, 365

Kukulcan, 292

Kurdistan, 171, 240

Kwan-lun hill, 81

Kyffhäuser Berg, 220

L

Lachryma Crocodili, 37

La Condamine, 164, 165, 166

Lactantius, 10, 362

Ladanum, 231, 234

Ladrones, the, 158

Lafitan, Père, 121

La Gran Quivera, 326

Laguna, 323

Lahore, 177

La Maillard, 173

Lamary, land of, 124

Lamb of Revelation, 59

Lamberti, 171

Lambri, 128

Lamias, 361

Lamprey, 44

Lampridius, 55

Lamya, 67

Land of Darkness, 221

Land of Fair Women, 259

Land of Ghosts, 143

Land of Job, 366

Lands of Legend, 223-250

Land of Marked Bodies, 360

Land of the Living, 259

Land of Promise, 253, 259

Land of Truth, 259

Lane, 159

Lang, 357

Lanuvium, 81

Laos, 136

Lapis lazuli, 24

Lapland, 101, 141, 145, 147, 149, 272, 343

Laputa, 373

Large-eared men, 2

Las Casas, 369

Las Jurdes, 147

Lassen, 25

Last of the Incas, 314

Latin mind, 354

Laufer, Berthold, 59

Laurel-tree and lightning, 19

La Vieja Islands, 315

Lecherers, 374

Leems, Knud, 101

Legion’s winter camp, 30

Leigh, 78

Leland, 118, 149, 370

Le Maire, 191

Lemuria, 1, 296

Lenin, 177

Leopard, 49, 65

Le Plongeon, 291

Leptus, 213

Lesiy, the, 127

Les Merveilleuses, 173

Lestai, the, 195

Lethe, fountain of, 18

Leuke, isle of, 153

Leviathan, 91

Levine, 174

Lewis and Clark expedition, 372

Lhasa, 188

Library of Congress, 358

Libussa, 171

Libya, 2, 134, 135, 153, 235, 281, 283, 365

Liège, 365, 367

Lilliput, 373

Limbo of the Moon, 373

Limpopo River, 225, 226

Linnæus, 43

Lion, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 51, 55, 58, 65, 66, 338, 361, 374

Lipo district, 128

Lisbon earthquake, 296

Lisbon Wanderers, 270

Little Black Men, 145

Livonians, 3, 365

Lizard, 82, 118, 341, 370

Lizard-Man, 339

Llama, 302, 305, 327, 374

Lliuga, Princess, 178

Lobo, 38, 54

Locris, 38

Locusts, 44, 65

Lodestone, Mountain of, 16-17, 276

Lofoden, 93

Logic, Indian, 330

Lok, John, 32, 104, 199

London Graphic, 142

Long, 146

Loon, 370

Lop, desert of, 210, 365

Lopez, 179

Lord of the Hollow Tree, 292

Lord of the Two Horns, 236

Lords of the Field, 61

Lotophagi, 199, 227, 229

Lot’s wife, 358

Lotus-land, 227-229

Louhiatar, 241

Louisiana, 319

Lucan, 81

Lucayos, the, 315

Lucca, Gaudentio di, 211

Lucerne, 80, 190, 209

Lucian characterized, 354;

cited, 103, 252, 258, 275

Lucknow, 177

Lucky-stone in toad’s head, 44

Ludolf, 37

Lumberjack legends, 65-66

Lusignan, house of, 99

Lusitania, 50, 263

Lust, ritual, 187

Luxembourg family, 99

Lydia, 186

Lynn, vessels from, 269

Lyonesse, 255

Lyon-poisson, 66

M

Macassar poison, 20

Macatoa, 303

McCrindle, 64

Mace, 244

Macrobians, the, 193

MacGregor, 214

Madagascar, 73, 74, 106, 138, 159, 225, 227, 364

Madanino, 160

Madeira Islands, 252, 258, 287, 288

Mældune, 89

Maelstrom, 93

Magellan, 138, 191, 242, 270

Magh Mell, 259

Magic dances as sources of the races of fable, 339

Magic Food, 259

Mahabharata, 156

Maid Marian, 345

Maidu Indians, 127

Maimonides, 238

Majorca, 174

Malabar, 112, 125, 233, 243

Malacca, 149, 159

Malatu, Sea of, 158

Malays, 9, 57, 129, 145, 244

Malay Peninsula, 124, 145, 147, 149, 199, 224, 260, 269

Maldive Islands, 95

Male incense, 233

Male infants, killing of, 178

Malory, 64

Mambuti, 144

Mammoths, frozen, 344

Mamore River, 139

Manannan, 89

Manatee, 102

Manco Capac, 314

Mancy, 365

Mandrake myth, 21-23, 87

Mangi, 130

Mangou, 130

Manhattan Island, 304

Manikins, 122, 342

Manioc, 291

Manlius, 69

Manoa, 300, 305, 307, 310, 311

Man of the Mountain, 61, 62

Manticora, 57

Maps, mediæval, 11

Mara River, 52

Maranon River, 333

Marata, 320, 323

Marcasite, 309

Marcellus, 286

Marco Milioni, 151, 364

Marcos, Friar, 318, 320, 321, 322, 323

Mare, 50, 221, 346

Mareb, 125

Mar Eldorado, 311

Marignolli, 8, 244

Marining animals, 67

Market of the Sea, 89

Markets, Night, 200

Marquesans, the, 260

Marquette, 80

Marseilles, 216

Martikhora, 57-58

Martinez, 305

Martlet, 66

Martyr, Peter, 331, 368

Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundeville, 363

Mascardi, 317

Masefield, 365

Mashona region, 225

Massagetæ, the, 169

Massoudy, 269, 362

Masu, Mountains of, 260

Matabele region, 225

Mather, Increase, 190

Matriarchate, 185

Matrimonio, island of, 161

Ma Tuan-Len, 128

Maundeville, characterized, 365-367;

cited, 19, 25, 55, 58, 61, 63, 68, 104, 108, 109, 110, 113, 114, 115, 119, 124, 130, 133, 138, 151, 159, 191, 211, 220, 237, 251, 258, 259, 276, 350, 363, 364

Mauretania, 275

Mayas, the, 292, 293, 294

May Day, 187, 188

Mead, 259

Meadows of Gold and Mines of Precious Stones, 362

Mecca, 138, 233

Mediæval Trade, 243

Medicine bag, 30

Medicine men, 321

Medina, 233

Mediterranean Sea, 89, 90, 93, 199, 227, 251, 263, 267, 281, 282, 290, 296, 356, 369

Megasthenes, 108, 109, 114, 133, 184

Mergui archipelago, 158

Megon, plain of, 221

Meir, Rabbi, 62

Mekong River, 136

Mekran, 196

Melanesia, 148

Melons, 283

Melusina, 99

Memphis, 143

Mendana, 328, 329

Menendez, 318

Mercurius Politicus, 212

Merfolk, 89, 98-102, 257

Mericourt, Theroigne de, 172, 173

Merles, 361

Mermaids, 2, 66

Merodach, 187

Merolla, 101, 105

Meropis, island of, 286

Merveilles de L’Inde, 128

Mesa Encantada, 323

Mesha, 223, 225, 226

Mesopotamia, 169

Meta-collinarum, 361

Metamorphoses, 125, 342

Metamorphosis, 28

Meta River, 305

Mewan Indians, 74, 118

Mexico, 83, 160, 188, 291, 360;

calendar of, 292

Mezzoramia, 211

Miami River, 102

Miaotze, 128

Micmacs, the, 118

Middle Comedy, 247

Midgard serpent, 83

Midian country, 224

Midsummer Eve, 187

Miletus, 152

Miltiades, 171

Milton, 345

Minæans, the, 226, 233

Mincoupies, 148

Mindanao Island, 242

Mingrelia, 171

Ming tombs, 54

Mink, 342

Minocane, 67

Minotaur, 152

Mirabeau, 172

Mirabilia, 349

Mirage, 199, 210

Misers, 374

Mississippi River, 326

Missouri, 326

Mistletoe, 19-20, 216

Mnemosyne, fountain of, 18

Mock king, 85, 188

Mole, 374

Molucca Islands, 1, 206, 242-245, 316

Moly, 20

Monaco, Prince of, 280

Mongolia, 113, 222, 236, 237, 239, 269, 377

Monoceros, 51

Monocoli, the, 113

Monomatti, the, 107

Monomotapa, 179

Montaigne, 341

Montana, 139

Montanes, 327

Montegre, 57

Montserrat, island of, 160

Montygre, 66

Moon goddess, 98

Moon, voyage to, 354

Moorish warrior queen, 178

Mordecai, 187

More, 373

Morea, the, 2, 247

Morgan le Fay, 256

Mormons, 359

Morocco, 140, 290

Morris, 75

Moscha, 225, 226

Moses and an Ethiopian princess, 71

Moslems, 138, 140, 238, 271

Mount of Eden, 8

Mount Ida, 25

Mount Sion, 62

Mountains, beliefs relating to, 205-209;

lights on, 2, 206, 207

Mountains of the Moon, 207

Mouse-Apollo, 30

Moving Isle, 253

Müller, Max, 205, 346

Müller, von, 54

Mummification, 87, 373

Munchausen, 354

Munster, a lake in, 261

Munza, King, 144

Murder, ritual, 158

Murger, 250

Muscovites, 58

Musk, 230, 234

Mustaghata, Mount, 208

Myrina, 153, 187

Myrrh, 231

Mythical Monsters, 82

Myths of observation, 343-344

Muysca Indians, 299

N

Nabatheans, 233

Nagas, 112, 217

Nahuatl ark legend, 292

Nahuelhuapi, Lake, 312, 316, 317

Nairs, the, 125

Nanling Mountains, 128

Narwhal, 51, 53

Nasamonian youths, 134

Natural histories, 350

Natural History of Norway, 92, 93

Natural History, Pliny’s, 354-355

Nature a pageant for man, 376

Nausicaa, 99

Navahos, 83, 95, 164, 204, 208, 217, 323, 376

Navel of the World, 279

Nearchus, 63, 91, 196

Nebraska, 326

Necho, 263

Necromancers, 218

Negrillos, 145

Negritos, 145

Negritos del Monte, 145

Negro Indians, 291

Negroland, 179

Negro, Rio, 161

Nekhbet, 75

Nephrite, 24

Nereids, 90, 197

Nergal, 55

Nero, 169, 230, 275

Nesnas, 111

Nestorians, 239-240, 361

Nestorius, 240

New Calabar, 98

New Granada, 300, 301, 304

New Guinea, 106, 145, 147, 148, 242, 328

New Hebrides Islands, 329

New Mexico, 62, 139

New Towns, 144

New York, 256

Niam-Niams, the, 130

Nicander, 39

Nicobar Islands, 17, 106

Niebuhr, 156, 198

Niger, 135

Nightingale, 28

Nile River, 85, 86, 87, 132, 135, 148, 195, 207, 275

Nina-chumpi, island of, 327

Ninth wave, 14

Nixie, 99

Njogel, 97

Noah, 292

Nomad spirit, the, 372

Nonius Marcellus, 351

Nordland, 93

North, 204

North Atlantic continent, 290

North Atlantic, floating storehouse of, 278

North Brother Island, 167

North Carolina, 306

Northmen, 267-268, 335

North Pole, 268

North Sea, 94

North wind, 56, 201, 202

Northern Lights, 4

Norva Sound, 267

Norway, 240

Nosala, island of, 197

Noseless nations, 108

Notaries on shipboard, 369

Nova Zembla, 101

Novgorod manuscript, 115, 116, 117

Nubian Highway, 144

Nulo Mountain, 114

Numantranus, 9

Number of peoples, provinces, rivers, and towns, 8

Numidia, 212

Nutmegs, 243, 245

Nysæan shore, 203

O

Obongos, the, 142

O Brasile, 256, 375

O’Brien, Frederick, 260

Oceania, 145

Ocean Stream, 8, 11, 203, 207, 262

Odoric, 58, 61, 96, 137, 243, 365, 366, 367

Odyssey, 81, 228, 252, 352, 363, 366

Ogier the Dane, 16

Ogre, 343

Ojibwas, the, 106

Olaus Magnus, 92, 93

Old Man of the Sea, 102, 363

Old Man of the Woods, 216

Old men’s tales, 336

Old Woman Islands, 315

Oleacinidæ, 290

Olisipo, 50, 90

Olive, 19, 202

Olympus, 7, 376

Omaguas, the, 300, 302, 303

Onesicritus, 191, 349

Onoscileas, the, 103

Ophiophagi, the, 199

Ophir, 1, 223-227

Opinicus, 66

Oraisan, 259

Oranges, 284

Orang-utan, 363

Orc, 2, 95

Orellana, 151, 161, 163, 167

Orgy of death, Amazon, 183

Orichalcum, 284

Orinoco, River, 110, 258, 304, 305, 308, 311, 312, 332

Orkney Islands, 241

Orlando, 95

Ormuz, 25

Orontes River, 186

Orsæan Indians, 51

Ory, 51, 55, 374

Osiris, 85, 86, 338

Osorno, 318

Ostrich, 43, 50, 114

Othman, 237

Otter-men, 117

Otto of Freisingen, 238

Ottokar, 249

Ottoman empire, 185

Otway, 256

Ovid, 121, 125, 342

Oviedo, 277, 369

Owl, 47, 237

Ox, 47, 58, 361;

burrowing, 57

Oxus River, 7

Oysters, government of, 42

P

Pacific Ocean, 260, 296;

lost continent in, 255;

island traditions of, 327, 328

Padua, 96

Pajarito plateau, 62

Palenque, 292

Paleolithic artists, 340

Palestine, 353

Palomides, 65

Palos, 242

Palus Mœotis, 154

Pamirs, the, 208

Pamphagi, 199

Pan, 2, 122, 127, 215, 216, 246

Panama, 304, 338

Panama-Pacific Exposition, 284

Panathenæa, 286

Pandavas, 146

Pandore, 109

Panther, 42, 47

Paracelsus, 6

Parade, negro Amazon, 182-183

Paradise and pearls and pepper, 362

Paraguay, 299, 300

Paraguay River, 139, 312, 313

Paranunta, Rani, 156

Pard, 49

Parik, 100

Paris, 250

Paris, Island of, 251

Parroquet, 89

Parrot, 338, 374

Partridge, 47

Pasto, 301

Pastoral song, 246

Patagonia, 316

Pathen, 366

Paula, 358

Pausanias, characterized, 353-354;

cited, 77, 129

Peacock, 44, 60

Peanuts, 291

Pear, earth shaped like, 12

Pearl, 87, 98, 351, 364

Peary, 255

Pedrarias, 331

Pegasus, 66, 68, 152

Pegu, 34

Pelican, 44, 350, 375

Pellinore, 64-65

Peloponnesus, 246

Peltry, Siberian, 221

Penguin Island, 342

Penang, island of, 245

Peoples of Prodigy, 2, 103-120, 351

Pepper, 363;

Pepper Country, 366;

Pepper “forests,” 243;

pepper wars, 244

Pepy II, Letter of, 143

Perforated people, 349

Periplus of Erythræan Sea, 266

Perotti, 40

Persia, 63, 82, 111, 230, 235, 240, 287, 352, 365

Persian Gulf, 59, 91, 290

Persica, 63

Peru, 139, 285, 299, 300, 304, 309, 316, 327, 328, 333

Petachia, Rabbi Moses, 358

Peter Martyr, 314, 315

Petra, 231, 233

Petrified cities, 211-213

Petrifying river, 261

Petrograd snipers, 176

Phædrus, 286

Phæacia, 99

Pharaoh’s Red Sea hosts, 102

Pheasant, 28, 78

Philes, 350

Philippines, 111, 138, 145

Philology, 291

Philomela, 28

Phineus, King, 75

Phlegethon, 262

Phœnicians, 98, 226, 263, 264, 295

Phœnix, 2, 60, 68-70, 71, 350, 361, 375

Phong, the, 136

Photios, 349

Phrygian cap, 186

Physiologus, 46, 91

Piasa petroglyph, 81

Piedras hijades, 162

Pigafetta, 138, 191

Pigeon, 44

Pig of the ocean, 67

Pih T’an, 89

Pike, 97

Pilate, Swiss legend of, 209

Pilatus, Mount, 209

Pillar of salt, 358

Pillars of Hercules, 129, 203, 264, 274, 281

Pima deluge myth, 342

Pindar, 202, 263, 339, 352

Pinkerton, 4, 102

Pinna, 59, 61

Pippilika, 64

Pison, 7

Pizzani, 271

Pizarro, the brothers, 161, 299, 301, 302

Plague, a remedy for, 24

Plato, 15, 266, 274, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 293, 295

Platypus, 341

Pliny, characterized, 354-355;

cited, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, 43, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 68, 72, 78, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 104, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115, 128, 133, 135, 141, 193, 194, 199, 202, 206, 228, 229, 230, 232, 286, 345, 349, 350, 351, 359, 361, 362, 363, 366, 369

Pliny’s Ape, 349

Pliny the Younger, 296, 354

Plutarch, 36, 43, 69, 174, 265, 286

Poetry, magic of, 347

Pohjola, 241

Poland, 100, 154, 156

Polish women fighters, 177

Polo, Marco, characterized, 363-365;

cited, 8, 12, 19, 34, 72, 73, 106, 128, 138, 158, 160, 167, 170, 204, 210, 221, 239, 244, 334, 349, 361, 362

Polybius, 264, 265

Polyhistor, 355

Polyphem ein Gorilla, 192

Polyphemus, 90, 228, 363

Polystephanos, 349

Pompeii, 296

Pompeius Festus, 351

Pompey, 246

Pomponius, 199

Pontoppidan, 42, 92, 93, 94, 100, 102, 367

Pontus, 153

Popayan, 301

Pope, Alexander, 108

Pope Alexander III, 239

Popinjays, in the deserts, 105

Popol Nuh, 118

Popos, 183

Porcupines, 43

Pork, 259

Porter-nations, fables of, 354

Port of Missing Ships, 276

Porto Rico, 314

Portugal, 112, 162, 178, 225, 243, 244, 277

Portus Nobilis, 225

Poseidon, 282, 283, 285

Potato, 306

Pottery, animal outlines of, 30

Prabhâsakhanda, 106

Prague, 172, 248

Prasias, Lake, 196

Precious stones in Christian symbolism, 24-25

Prejevalski, 54

Prescott, 302

Prester John, 1, 12, 17, 63, 211, 238-240, 359, 361, 362, 366

Priestesses, armed, 184

Priest-king, 85

Primum mobile, 9

Principal Trade Routes, 362

Principal Voyages, 369

Prison for lost souls, 276

Proclus, 286

Procopius, 60, 265, 266

Progne, 28

Prometheus Bound, 207

Promises of princes, 373

Prophecy: how the gift is conferred, 24

Prospero’s isle, 206

Psalm-singing birds, 253

Pseudo-Plutarch, 352

Psylli, the, 194

Psyllotoxotæ, the, 103

Pterodactyl, 79

Ptolemy, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 129, 195, 207, 225, 362

Public-house signs, 345

Pueblo Indians, 204

Puerto de Arica, 327

Pu-lu tribe, 136

Punt, 143, 224, 231, 233, 234

Puranas, 269, 359

Purchas, 3, 42, 53, 74, 199, 335

Purgative, a, 24

Pygmies, 2, 108, 117, 132-150, 208, 350, 361, 368

Pygmy Highway, 144

Pyramids, 358

Pyrenees Mountains, 56, 203

Pytheas of Massilia, 264, 334

Q

Quail, 44, 356

Quatrefages, 146

Queen Bee, 186

Queen of Sheba, 224, 226

Quesada, 301

Quesada, Ximenes, 304

Questing beast, 64-65

Quetelet, 192

Quetzalcoatl, 161, 292

Quichna Indians, 314, 333

Quimper, 256

Quiros, 329

Quito, 299, 300, 301, 302

Quivera, 312, 314, 323-326

Quoyas Morrov, 125

R

Rabbit, 29, 127

Race-course, 253, 284, 296

Rainbow, 370

Rain trees, 20-21

Rajputana, 124

Rakshasis, 156, 157

Raleigh, 3, 36, 110, 111, 151, 152, 162, 163, 166, 305-310, 329, 346, 369

Ram, 47

Ram-eagle, 67

Rami, the, 137

Ramni, 104

Ramus, Jonas, 41

Ras Sem, petrified village of, 212, 213

Rat, 342, 366;

worship of, 30-31;

monster, 57

Rath, 100

Raven, 42, 43, 374

Raw materials, search for, 372

Rawlinson, 184, 228

Realm of Big Women, 222

Red River, 136

Red Sea, 1, 195, 196, 199, 226, 227

Regio feminarum, 160

Region of Darkness, 221

Reig Rawan, Desert of, 211

Reindeer, 240

Remora, 97

Repose, regions of, 251

Republic, Plato’s, 286, 287, 373

Retreat of the Ten Thousand, 195

Retzius, 291

Revelation, book of, 236;

Horsemen of, 62

Regnard, 40

Reynard the fox, 47

Rhegium, 38

Rhine maidens, 99

Rhinoceros, 34, 46;

of the air, 74-75;

horn for detecting poison, 34

Rhizophagi, the, 199

Rhodesia, ancient, 1, 225, 226

Rhodope Mountains, 100

Rhone River, 209

Ribbon fish, 95

Ribeiro, 125, 166

Ricold of Monte Croce, 237

Riddles, 346

Rights of Women, 173

Riphæan Rocks, 202, 203

Ritual mimes, 339

Ritual murder, 85

River of China, 7

River that flows by the Throne of God, 262

Robin Hood cycle, 345

Roc, 72-74, 363, 365

Rock crystal, 24

Rock Tibboos, 195

Rocky Mountains, 207

Rodriguez, Barboza, 164

Rodzianko, 175

Roebuck, 43

Roger, King of Sicily, 270

Rogero, 95

Rohan, family, 99

Roman pharmacopeia, animal items in, 27

Rome, 90, 96, 230, 247, 258, 262, 265, 349, 354

Romulus, 344

Root-eaters, 199

Roraima, Mount, 208

Rothery, 163, 179

Rotundity of the earth, 272, 366-367

Roulin, 141

Roundhouses, ceremonial, 370

Royal Irish Society, 256

Ruad, 100

Rubruquis, 113, 222, 239

Ruby, 24, 244

Ruskin, 216

Russia, 154, 240, 290, 365;

fighting women of, 174-177;

strange peoples of, 115-117

S

Saba, 232, 233

Sabæans, the, 226, 231, 232, 233

Sacramento, 284;

Valley, 283

“Sacred groaning stick,” 370

Sacred Promontory, 10

Saffron as magic diet, 217

Sagittary, 66

Sago tree, 138

St. Augustine, 355

St. Bernard, 47, 172

St. Brendan, 91, 259, 271, 276, 363;

island of, 252

St. Clement, 69

St. Collen, 368

St. Colodoc, 45

St. Costinian, 45

St. Francis, 375

St. Gerasimus, 45

St. Guthlac, 45

St. Helenus, 45

St. Jerome, 237, 358

St. John, 65

St. John’s Eve, 188

St. Leonor, 45

St. Maria Rotunda, 342

St. Mark, treasure of, 53

St. Sulpicius, 45

St. Vitus dance, 39, 40

Sais, temple at, 281

Saint, statue of a, 271

Salamanca, 147;

Council of, 10

Salamander, 38-39, 47, 70, 337, 350

Salmon, 89

Salt fish diet, 243

Salvaje, 126

Samar, 158

Samarcand, 170

Samaria, 358

Sambation, the river, 17-18

Samoan Islands, 260

Samoyeds, 56, 57, 74, 115, 116, 117, 364

Sanazzaro, 247

Sandalwood, 230, 233

Sandrokotos, 184

San Joao River, 124

San Francisco, 294

San Francisco, mountain of, 376

San Joaquin Valley, 283

Santa Cruz, island of, 329

Santa Marta, 301

Santa Thome del Agostina, 311

San Thome River, 124

Santom aborigines, 136

Santos, Juan, 333

Sapphar Metropolis, the, 225

Sapphire, 24, 25

Saragossa, feminine defense of, 174

Sardinia, 96, 264;

pygmy survivals in, 147

Sardonic plant, 356

Sargasso Sea, 274-280, 281, 287

Sarmatians, 156

Sassafras, 242

Satan, 112, 204, 236, 350

Satyr-fish, 67

Satyrs, 2, 66, 121-131, 206, 272, 356, 361, 375;

Satyr Islands, 129

Saures, 221

Savaii, 260

Sayce, 185, 186

Sayf Al-Muluk, 251

Scaliger, 58, 112, 140

Scalping, 120

Scandinavia, 290

Scapegoat, 187

Scarab, 218

Scarecrows as tribal ancestors, 200

Scenes de la Vie de Bohème, 250

Schenchzer, 80

Schomburgk, 167

Schoolcraft, 119, 370

Schorodomachi, the, 103

Schweinfurth, 142, 144, 147

Sciapodes, the, 113

Scilly Islands, 255, 263, 265

Scipio, 265

Scobellum, 374

Scorpion men, 260

Scotland, tide myth of, 9, 345

Scrofula, animal remedies for, 27

Scylax, 275, 353

Scyritæ, the, 108, 114

Scythia, 82, 107, 141, 154, 155, 156, 196, 235, 236, 237

Scythian lamb, 58-62

Sea a symbol of eternity, 262

Sea creatures, 89-102;

named after land animals, as sea-dragons, hares, horses, kites, lions, mice, oxen, spiders, 89

Sea serpent, 2, 93-95

Sea of Clarified Butter, 269

Sea of Curds or Whey, 269

Sea of Glass, 252

Sea of Milk, 261, 269

Sea of Salt Water, 269

Sea of Sugar Cane Juice, 269

Sea of Wine, 269

Seal, 42, 89

Seal-men, 117, 242, 257

Sebo, 77

Sedentary Indians, 320

Selfishness, myths of, 371

Semangs, the, 147, 260

Semiramis, 18, 169

Semites, commercial fictions of, 9;

culture of, 357

Seneca, 252

Senegal, 286, 290, 291

Senegal River, 263

Sephar, Mount, 223

Sepulchers of Zenu, 312, 329-330

Seres, 191, 193, 230

Serrano, 244

Sertorius, 264, 265

Set, 86, 87

Seven Cities of Cibola, 312, 318-323

Seven Seas, 269

“Shadow-footed,” 346

Shagamaw, 66

Shakespeare, 109, 248

Shan Hai King, 359

Shantung, 89, 137

Shape-shifting, 28, 370

Shark, 87, 95, 97-98, 260

Shaw, 212

Sheep, 257, 327, 358

Sheikh of the Seaboard, 363

Shetland Islands, 97, 241

Shikh, 111

Shoshones, the, 6

Shrewmouse, 43

Shu-king, 71

Siam, 33, 34, 137, 240, 269, 293

Siberia, 115, 116, 117, 344;

women fighters of, 177

Sicily, 147, 246

Sid, the, 217

Sidney, Sir Philip, 247

Sierras, the, 283

Sigismund, King, 101

Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, 149

Silent Isle, 252

Silver, 284, 327

Silvia of Aquitaine, 358

Simeon, Rabbi, 62

Simhala, 157, 158

Simon, Padre, 300

Sinai, 143

Sind, 158

Sindbad, 3, 33, 72, 91, 137, 206, 234, 362, 363, 366

Singular speech, 104-105

Sinmenkpen, 183

Siptakhora tree, 105

Sirens, 48, 89, 90, 197, 272

Siva, 338

Skeletons, animated, 117

Skin-shifting, 28

Skogfrau, 216

Skulls as drinking cups, 196;

talking, 117;

rolling, 119, 120, 370

Slave Coast, 179

Slavs, 100, 248, 261

Sliabh Daidche, 252

Sluggish Sea, 264

Smith, Grafton Elliot, 84, 87

Smithsonian Institution, report of, 288

Smyrna, 153, 187

Snails, 366

Snake, 30, 37-38, 43, 45, 64, 78, 79, 81, 84, 112, 351, 361

Snake-eaters, 199

Snakes in Ireland, no, 356

Snoligoster, 66

Snowy Mountains, 7

Society Islands, 329

Socotra, island of, 226, 365

Socrates, 286

Soe-Drawl, 92

Soe-Ormen, 94

Sofala, 225

Solar mythology, 83, 287, 295

Solinus, characterized, 356;

cited, 9, 35, 38, 42, 53, 206, 349, 350, 363, 366

Solomon, 125, 185, 223, 224, 226, 227

Solomon Islands, 260, 312, 327-329

Solon, 281

Somaliland, 1, 234

Sombreron, 127

Sorcerers that took hyena form, 36

South, 9, 204

South America, 2, 3, 65, 126, 291, 298

South Atlantic continent, 290

South Arabs, 226

South Brother Island, 167

South Dakota, 208

South Seas, 203, 258, 336

Southern hemisphere noblest, 9

Souza, 271

Soviets, 156

Spain, 9, 161, 162, 224, 243, 264, 277, 290, 299, 300, 309, 333, 368, 372;

treasure ships of, 306, 309

Sparta, 246

Speculum Regale, 101

Spence, 292

Spencer, 336, 345

Spenser, 306

Sphinx, 66, 356

Spice Islands, 1, 12, 90, 225, 242-245

Spices, 302, 364

Spider, 28

Spitzbergen, 41

Splinter cat, 66

Springs, magical, 18, 353

Spurred men, 245

Squid, 95

Squonk, 66

Stag, 28, 45, 48, 51

Stagnant Sea, 358

Staked plains, 324

Stanley, 132, 144, 145

Star of the Archers, 178

Statues as source of myths, 340, 341

Stone Age heathen, 343

Stone giants, 207

“Stone of the eyes,” 26

Storax, 232

Stork, 28, 42, 44

“Story of the Winged Disk,” 86

Strabo, 3, 8, 9, 25, 38, 55, 107, 135, 140, 154, 197, 198, 228, 264, 286, 351, 353

Straits of Florida, 278

Straits of Magellan, 316

Street of feathers, 359

Streets of women, 209

Struthocameli, 50

Struthophagi, the, 199

Struthopodes, the, 113

Struys, 129

Stygian Pool, 262

Stymphalian birds, 2, 77

Subraces, 342

Suffolk, 101

Sukhavati, 261

Sumatra, 128, 129, 137, 159, 240, 363

Sun-haters, 194

Sun, track of the, 205

Sunamukha, the, 106

Sun-Carrier, 6-7

Sunda Islands, 148, 269

Sung Geography, 128

Sunken Lands, 254-257

Sunset, hissing sound at, 14

Superior, Lake, 294

Suwanee River, 319

Svetadvipa, 261

Swallow, 28, 40-41, 45, 81, 375

Swallower of the West, 338, 372

Swan song, 44, 202

Sweden, 240;

the Great, 268

Swine, 30, 44, 48, 87, 127, 253, 260, 338, 374

Symmetry, sense of cosmic, 7

Symons, 250

Sympathetic magic, 187

Syria, 61, 169, 186, 195

Syrian lamb, 61

Syrtic district, 228

T

Tabernacle form of earth, 6

Table of the Sun, 14-15

Tachnin River, 102

Tachylyte, 289, 295

Tae-Ping women fighters, 177

Tagus River, 50

Tahetan tide myth, 9

Tahiti, 260

Tailed men, 121-131

Takla-makan, dead city of, 215

Talmud, 60, 61, 91, 204

Tamerlane, 237

Tanganyika country, 145

Tangi, 97

Tannhäuser, 219, 220

Taos, 323

Tapio, 128

Tapirs, king of the, 127

Taprobane, 10, 63

Taranto, 39, 59

Tarantula, 39-40

Tarascon, shield of, 66

Tarask, 66, 337

Tartars, 108, 130, 147, 154, 170, 221, 237, 365

Tariessus, 224

Tatius, 37

Tauron, 104

Taurus Mountains, 186

Tawny Moors, 199

Tchad, Lake, 135

Tchudi, the, 117

Tecumbalam, the bird, 293

Tembandumba, 178

Tempe, 201

Tempest, The, 103

Tempests, how to avert, 24

Temple harlots, 184

Temple of Dobayba, 312, 331-332

Temple of the Sun, 332

Ten Lost Tribes, 17, 138, 237, 359, 362

Tennyson, 227, 252, 255

Tenochtitlan, 318

Tensevetes, 361

Terhetar, 241

Termeh, 153

Termier, 288, 289, 290, 291, 295, 296

Ternate, 244

Terra Australis Incognita, 11

Terrestrial Paradise, 7, 8, 117, 158, 239, 312, 365, 368, 373, 376

Terrible Ocean, 262-273

Tetramorph, 338

Texera, 163

Teyma, 211

Thalestris, 154

Thanet, island of, 351

Tharshish, 224, 225, 226, 227

Thebaid, 148

Theocritus, 246

Theodor, Bishop, 117

Theodosius, 358

Theophrastus, 275

Theopompus, 286

Thermiscyra, 186

Thermodon River, 153

Theseus, 152, 153

Thevet, 53

Thirty Years’ War, 248

Thomas, 326

Thoreau, 204

Thorne, 244

Thought, fancied omnipotence of, 376

Thrace, 135

Thule, 10, 264

Thunberg, 34

Thunder bird, 81

Thunderbolts, 26

Thuringia, 220

Thurium, 352

Tiber River, 209

Tiberius, 19, 90

Tibet, 54, 64, 124, 187, 188, 196, 240, 364

Tides, 9

Tidor, 244

Tierra del Fuego, 328

Tierra-firma, 13, 303

Tig-balang, 127

Tiger, 49, 57, 81, 351, 361

Tigris River, 238

Timæus, the, 281, 285, 286

Tin, 284

Tin Islands, 263, 265, 352

Titan, 370

Tithonus, 38

Titicaca, Lake, 312

Tityrus, 66

Tlingit myths, 29, 370

Toad, 78

Tobacco, 306

Toltecs, 292

Tomyris, 169

Tonga, 260

Topago, province of, 162

Topaz, 24

Topographical legends, 14

Topsell, 51

Topsy-turvy, law of, 3

Torca, island of, 255

Torres Straits, 260

Tortoise, 6, 47, 96, 343

Toscanelli, map of, 12

Totemism, 29

Totoneac, 320, 323

Toucan, 42

Tower of London, 307

Traconda, island of, 104

Tragedy, Greek, 339

Trapalanda, 316

Travel Tales of Mankind, 348-370

Travels in Barbary, 212

Travelers, Lot of, 335-336

Travelers’ Trunk, earth like a, 6

Trebizond, 153

Tree of the Sun, 19

Trees, 19-21, 353

Trickster-hero, 370

Trinidad, 300, 305, 308

Trinity, the earliest, 85, 86

Tritons, 89, 90, 272

Troglodytes, 2, 25, 106, 109, 138, 158, 194-195

Troll, 367

Tronador, 318

Tropic of Cancer, 277, 278, 280

Trotzky, 177

Troubadours, 47

Troy, 75, 133, 152

True History, 103, 275, 354

Tsheremis, 107

T’sung-ling Mountains, 360

Tuanaki, island of, 255

Tuatha Dé Danann, 217

Tumbleweed, 120

Tupac-Amaru, 333

Tupac Yupanqui, Inca, 327

Tupi-Guarani myth, 292

Tupimare, the hill, 292

Turanians, 151, 185

Turkestan, 87, 214, 361

Turkey, 108, 154, 170, 237

Turkomans, 186, 346, 353

Turja Fells, 241

Turquoise, 24, 318

Turtle, 81, 119

Turtle-eaters, 198

Tuscany, 282

Twelfth Day, 31

Two Mussulman Travelers, 363

Two Sisters, isles of, 158

Tylor, 123, 343, 346

Tzetzes, 109, 350

U

Udyana, 259

Ulloa, 21, 38

Ulysses, 99, 205, 228, 229, 336, 354

Underground, beliefs as to, 217-220

Undine, 99

Ung-Khan, 239

Unicorn, 2, 50-55, 66, 67, 340, 375;

horn of, antidote for poison, 51

Unicorn bird, 75

Uniped, 113

United States, 290

Universe an egg, 6

Unpaid vows, 373

Ural Mountains, 107, 202

Urcos, lake of, 332

Urdu-begani, 177

Utopia, 373

Uttarakarns, the, 261, 336

V

Vaikuntha, 261

Vain efforts, 373

Valasca, 172

Valencia, 178

“Valentines,” Amazon, 152, 162

Vale Perilous, 191

Valley of Apes, 125

Valley of Diamonds, 73

Valley of the Shadow of Death, 367

Valum Chvim, 292

Vampires, 367

Vancouver Island, 28

Van Diemen’s Land, 95

Van Noort, 191

Varasena, Pass of, 361

Varenius, 278

Varro, 351

Varthema, 138

Vartomannus, 53

Vashti, 187

Vassals of the beasts, men as, 28

Vaz, Lopez, 163, 304, 328

Veddahs, the, 148

Vegetable lamb, 58-62

Venetus, Paulus, 53

Venezuela, 126, 207, 301, 304, 306

Venice, lion of, 66

Venus, 219

Venus, Mandragorolis, 22

Vergil, Polydore, 128

Vermin, a diet against, 193

Verrius, 351

Versailles, march on, 172

Vicarious sacrifice, 86

Views of Nature, 278

Viking names, 267

Villon, 249

Vilna unit of girl soldiers, 177

Vincent of Beauvais, 366

Vine, 19

Vineta, legendary city of, 254

Vine-women, 103