INDEX

368Abdâls, 261-262

Abu Djafar al Mausur, Caliph, 232

Abu Jail, 241-243

Achilles, 26-27, 298

Adi Granth, 201

Æsop’s fables, 25, 29-30, 80-81

Aethe, 26

Aethon, 26

Afghan ballad, 241-243

African pastoral tribes, 95

Agamemnon, 25-26, 29

Agassiz, 364

Agora Temple, 77

Ahimsa, 166-167, 172, 193

Ahriman, 124-126, 143, 145-146, 149-151, 158-159

Ahriman, hymn to, 125

Ahuna-Vairya, 138

Ahura Mazda, 116, 121-122, 136, 138-139, 143, 154, 158-159

Alberti, Leo Battista, 154, 158-159, 352

Albigenses, 346

Alexander the Great, 75, 133

Alfonso, King of Spain, 291-292

Alger, W. R., 286

Alhambra, 229

Al Rakîm, 230

Amatongo, 107-109

Amazulu, 107

L’âme est la fonction du cerveau, 357

Ammon, Temple of, 31

Amon Ra, 103

Amritsar, 201

369Anaxandrides, 82

Anchorites, 179, 252-254

Andromache, 26

Animals, treatment of, in India, 19; the purgatory of men, 21; slaying of, by Greeks, 24-25; naming of, 26; prophetic powers of, 27-28; talking, 29; Roman treatment of, 45-46; butchery of, at Colosseum, 51; imported for arena, 51-52; humanity of, 53-54; performing, 54-55; Plutarch on kindness to, 64-71; Plutarch on animal intelligence, 67-71; instances of discrimination of, 75-76; domestication of, 90-91; value of, 94-95; excuses for killing, 100; attitude of savages to, 107-108; killing of, by priests, 148-150; Zoroastrian treatment of, 147-157; in sacred books, 188; Hebrew treatment of, 212-220; hunting of, by Moslems, 224-225, 232, 241-243; musical instinct in, 245-246; and the Messiah, 247-252; and saints, 259; stories of, 306-316; theory of Celsus as to intelligence of, 340-344; theory of Porphyry, 344; the Church and humanity, 346; animal prosecutions, 347-351; Renaissance admiration of, 352-353; animals and thought, 355; automata 370theory, 353-359, 365; societies to protect, 359-360; ill-treatment and immortality, 362; principle of evolution, 363

Antelope, 240

Ants, wisdom of, 76-77; killing of, 149-150; Hebrew proverb, 216; in the Koran, 227; social economy of, 341-342

Apis, 102, 144

Apollo, 246

Apollonius of Tyana, 268-269; 337-340; 345

Apsarases, the, 279-280

Apuleius, 55

Archæological Congress, 95

Archetypes (see Fravashi)

Ardâ Vîrâf, 159-165

Arena, cruelties of the, 45-46

Ariosto, 297

Aristophanes, 28

Aristotle, 58, 78, 80, 269, 340, 362

Arnold, Dr., 364

Arnold, Sir Matthew, 302-303

Aryans, 13, 18, 113-115

Asceticism, 179-183

Astrachan, 258

Ataro, 162

Atharva-Veda, 208

Atman, 14

Augustus, 336

Automata theory, 353-359, 365

Avebury, Lord, 343

Avesta, 113, 116, 120, 123, 125, 128, 131, 133-140, 143, 145-148, 153, 155, 159, 163, 233-234

Bactria, 131

Baiardo, 297

Balaam’s ass, 212-213, 219

Balius, 26-27

Balkis, Queen, 229

Bankes’ horse, 283

Banyan deer, 327-230

Barbary, 296

371Basan, Bulls of, 144

Basri, Hasan, 234

Battle of the frogs and mice, 29

Baudelaire, 18

Bavieca, 289-294

Bears, legends of, 88-89

Beast tales, 28, 317, 351

Beaver (see Udra)

Bedouins, 272

Behkaa, 104

Benares, 183

Benedict XII., 49

Bentham, Jeremy, 359

Bhagavad, Gita, 14

Bion, 64

Birds, in captivity, 56-57; Plutarch’s views on, 78; language of, 226-227; and St. Francis, 259-260

Bismarck, 304

Bi’sm-illah, custom of saying, 224

Bivar, Ruy Diaz de, 289-294

Blackbird, White, 51

Blake, Wm., 251

Bleeck, 153

Blessing the beast, rite of, 347

Boccaccio’s falcon, 285

Bœotia, 62

Boëthius, 345

Bolingbroke, 296

Bosanquet, Dr. R. C., 95

Brahmans, 14, 21, 169, 175, 183, 309

Breath from the veldt, A, 240

British school at Athens, 95

Broca, Professor, 354

Browning, Robert, 138

Bruno, Giordano, 216, 260-261, 353

Bubastis, 81

Bucephalus, 75

Buddhism, 21, 105-106, 124, 130, 167-173, 187, 190-196, 261, 273, 308, 321-328

Buddhist India, 328

Buffalo of Karileff, 254

Bull-baiting, 50, 359-360

372Bull-fights, 32, 47-50

Bulls, 143-146

Bundehesh, 142-143

Burgundy, Duke of, 349

Burial, methods of, 123-124

Burkitt, Prof. F. C., 135-136

Burns and Oates, 346

Burns, Robert, 59

Cæsar, Julius, 51, 53, 55, 296

Cagliari, 248

Callaway, Canon, 109

Cambaleth, 195

Cambyses, 144

Camels, 286

Canna, 333-334

Carbonaria, 49

Carlyle, Thos., 33

Cartesian philosophy, 353-355

Carthage, 211

Cassandra, 29

Cato, 45

Cats, 80-83, 155, 222, 258, 278, 314, 322

Celsus, 73, 339-344

Celts, 273-274

Ceriana, 358

Cervantes, 290

Chanet, 355

Chantal, Mdme. de, 178

Chariot-racing, 30

Charles, King (the Peace), 50

Chesterfield, Lord, 364

Childebert, 254-255

China, religion of, 327

Chinese, belief and folk-lore, 104-106; saving of animal life, 194; folk-lore stories, 306-308, 313-316, 326-330.

Chinvat, 154, 158, 162

Choo-Foo-Tsze, 104

Christianity, approach of, 337-338

Cicada, 260

Cicero, 16, 50, 58-59, 128, 340

Cignani, 208

373Cimon, 31

Circuses, 54-55

Clothilde’s God, 93

Clovis, 93

Clytemnestra, 29

Cobbett, 359

Cockatoo, Story of a, 359

Colonna, Cardinal, 49

Colosseum, Butchery at inauguration of, 51

Comte, Auguste, 133

Concha, 57-58

Confucianism, 104-105, 130

Constantinople, 233

Constantinople, Council at, 14

Contemporary Review, 6

Copenhagen National Museum, 47

Corinna, Parrot of, 56

Corsica, 347

Crete, 32, 77, 95

Cuvier, 363

Cyrus, 118, 121-122

Daevas, 116

d’Alviella, Count Goblet, 5

Damascus, 231, 306

Dante, 13, 160, 162-163, 187

Darmesteter, James, 241

Darius, 119, 121-122

Darwin, Charles, 150-151, 206, 344, 363-364

Darwin, Francis, 175

Davids, Professor T. W. Rhys, 328

Deathlessness of souls, 91-92

Deer (see Banyan deer)

Dervishes, 234-235, 261

Descartes, 16, 353-357

Deucalion, dove of, 78

Diaz, Gil, 293

Digby, Sir Kenelm, 283

Dog, grave of a faithful, 314

Dogs, 57-59, 79-80, 114-115, 151-153, 158, 229-233, 244, 306-308, 312, 314-316, 322-324, 358-359

Dog’s Grave, the, 79

374Dolmen-builders, 92-93, 96

Domestication of animals, 90-91

Doughty, Charles M., 236

Doukhobors, 32

Downe, 283

Draupadi, story of, 322-324

Dravidians, 18-19, 163

Duperron, Anquetil, 135, 152

Eden, Garden of, 208-209

Eden, Garden of (picture by Rubens), 247

Edkins, Joseph, D.D., 327

l’Église et la Pitié envers les Animaux, 346

Egyptian cosmogony, 103-104

El Djem, well at, 109

Elephants, legend of, 74-75, 77; in Oriental books, 188; white elephant killed by Rustem, 294

Eleusinian mysteries, 32

Elisha and the she-bears, 248-249

Elmocadessi, Azz’Eddin, 236

Empedocles, 14-15, 34, 72

Epictetus, 73-74

Epirus, 57

Erasmus, 16, 353

Eskimo, the, 88-89, 92

Euripides, 78, 190, 246, 340

Evolution, theory of, 363-365

Falcon, Persian fable of a, 313

Faliscus, Gratius, 57

Fargard XIII., 152

Ferrière, Émile, 357

Fioretti, 74, 258

Firdusi, 141, 225, 240, 294, 296, 301-304

Flesh-eating, 24-25, 31-32, 61-64, 71, 85-86, 148, 193-194, 217-218

Folk-lore Association of Chicago, 102

Folk-Songs of Southern India, 17

Foxes, 106

Franzolini, Dr. F., 363

Fravashi, 117, 145, 162

375Games, Roman, 47-48, 51-52

Gargantuan feasts, 148

Garibaldi, 294, 298

Gâthâs, 134, 139, 144-145

Gautama, 308

Gayatri, 117-118, 138

Gayo Marathan, 143

Gellert, Beth, 306-307, 309, 312

Geus Urva, 143-144

Ghusni, 241

Giles, Dr., 105, 313, 316

Gladiators, importation of, 52-53

Gnostics, 346

Goat, Story of a, 245

Goethe, 333

Gover, Charles E., 17

Gray, Asa, 150-151

Gubernatis, Count de, 290

Guillaume de Palerme, 351

Gunádhya, 245

Guru, 168, 181, 345

Gymnosophists, 172

Hall, 283

Hallal, custom of the, 224

Hatem, Tai, 285-286

Hatos, 290

Hawk and the pigeon, legend of, 317-321, 325

Haziûm, 296

Heber, Bishop, 231

Hebrews, the, 114, 145, 149, 159, 161, 207-208, 212-220, 284

Hector, 26

Hedgehog, appreciation of the, 79

Heine, 344

Helena, 190

Helps, Sir Arthur, 352

Henotheism, 118

Hera, 25-27

Heraclites, 72

Herakles, 24

Hermits (see Anchorites)

Herodotus, 31, 81, 128, 148-149, 301

376Hero-worship, 299-300

Hidery, 102

Hinduism, 13, 17, 218-219, 265-266

History of European Morals, 362

Homa, 148-149

Homer, 23-26, 77, 79, 241

Homizd IV., 161

Honover, 138

Horace, 76

Horses, famous, 26-27; sacrifice of, 114; in Oriental books, 188; St. Columba’s horse, 255; in chivalrous age, 281-282; thinking, 283; Arab and his horse, 285-288; Hatem’s horse, 285-286; the Cid’s horse, 289-294; horse of Rustem, 294; talking, 298; Bengal fable, 313; Russian folk-lore tale, 322

Hugo, Victor, 19, 45, 57, 164

Humanitarianism, 145-147, 175, 198-200, 243, 308, 346

Húsheng, 141-142

Huxley, Professor, 354

Iblís, 142

Ibsen, 186

Ichneumon, 311-312

“Iliad,” 25

Immortality, 159, 362

Improta, Leandro, 22

Indian doctrine of transmigration, 14-17

Indra, 116-117, 319-323

Insects, killing of, 149

Intelligenza delle Bestie, 363

Iranians, 113-134, 155

Isaiah, 249

Isis, 336

Islam, 160, 221

Issaverdens, Padre Giacomo, 209

Itongo, 107, 259

Itvara, 186

Jacobi, Professor Hermann, 169, 199

377Jaina hermit’s story, 332

Jainism, 168-193, 196-200

Jātaka Book, 328

Jebb, Sir Richard, 135

Jenyns, Soame, 360

Jesus Christ, 130, 145, 188, 216, 231, 244, 249-252, 320

Jews (see Hebrews)

Jinas, 170

Joghi, 181

John, Father, 338

John XXII., Pope, 49

Jones, Sir William, 135, 152, 225, 333

Jonson, Ben, 283

Joseph of Anchieta, 255-256

Josephus, 24

Julia Domna, Empress, 338

Kálidása, 333

Kambôga, 188

Karileff, 254

Karman, 175-177

Kasi, King of, 330-331

Katmir, 230

Keats, John, 207

Kempis, Thomas à, 171

Keshub Chunder Sen, 25

Khordah Avesta, 134, 137, 159

Kirghis, the, 85

Koran, 136, 221-223, 226-230, 237, 261, 287

Koureen, 296

Lahore Zoological Gardens, 236

Lake dwellers, 90

Lamarck, 363

Lamartine, 69

Lampus, 26

Lancelot, 296

Lane, 224

Language, definition of, 354-355

Laplander, the, 87-90

Lapwing, Solomon and the, 228-229

378Lebid, 237-239

Lecky, 362

Legenda Aurea, 249, 258

Leibnitz, 365

Leland, C. G., 277

Leopardi, 59, 125, 187

Lesbia’s sparrow, 56

Lessona, Carlo, 363

Leveson, Major, 269

Lion, legend of a humane, 53; Christ in the lions’ den, 250-251; St. Jerome and the, 253; lioness at Chartres, 262; eating of monkeys and men by, 268-269; love for his mate, 269-270; legend of vulture and, 325; sympathy of, 358

Lion’s Kingdom, 30

Lives, Plutarch’s, 65, 74

Lizard, sacredness of, 108-110

Lockhart, 291

Lombroso, 267

Long, Rev. J., 168

Lotus-flower, white, 176

Lucian, 15, 56, 278

Lucretius, 84, 206, 239

Lyall, Sir Alfred, 180

Lyall, Sir Chas., 238

Lycæus, Mount, 273

Lycanthropy, 274-275

Maeterlinck, 331

Magians, the, 119, 124, 127-129, 148, 226

Magic, 273-280

Magpie, legend of a, 77-78

Mahabharata, 317, 322

Mahavira, 169-173, 197-198

Mahmoud, 241

Malay Magic, 224

Malebranche, 356

Man, ages of, 84

Mandeville, 196, 352

Man-eating animals, 268, 270-272

Manichæism, 127, 261

379Manning, Cardinal, 347

Manu, Institutes of, 29

Marcellus, Theatre of, 55

Marcus Aurelius, 59

Mare, story of the creation of, 288

Marne, 254

Marriage in the East, 139-140

Martial, 58

Massaia, Cardinal, 262

Matreya, 170

Mazdaism, 116-119, 124, 129, 133-139, 155, 157-158, 159, 160-161, 225, 233

Mecca, 231

Media, 129

Medina, 232

Melampus, 344

Melior, parrot of, 56-57

Menelek, Emperor, 229

Merodach, 122

Metempsychosis (see Transmigration)

Michelet, 364

Mill, J. S., 127

Millais, Guille, 240

Milton, John, 205

Minotaur legend, 30

Mithra, 120, 147, 158, 336

Mivart, 354

Modi, Jivanji Jamsedji, 45

Mohammedanism, 109, 130, 216-217, 221-222, 248

Monkeys, 306

Monotheism, 118-123, 128

Montaigne, 352

Moral Philosophy, 346

“Morocco,” 283

Moslemism, 221-236

Moti (tiger at Lahore), 236

Moufflons, 85

Muklagerri Hills, 171

Mule of the Parthenon, 66-67

Mungoose stories, 306-307, 309-311

Murad, Sultan, 223

380Nanak, Baba, 201

Napier, Lord, of Magdala, 316

Naples, gladiatorial shows at, 49

Natural History Museum, S. Kensington, 240

Natural History Society, Bombay, 45

Nedrotti, the, 98

Ne-kilst-lass, 102

Nemesianus, 57

Nennig, mosaic at, 47-48

Neolithic Age, 91-92

Neoplatonism, 344-346

Newman, Cardinal, 11

Nibelungenlied, 140

Nirvana, 178, 190-192

Nizami, 243-244

Nobarnus, 52

Non-killing (see Ahimsa)

Oakesmith, Dr., 63

Octavius, 339

Odoric, Fra, 194-196, 351

Odyssey, 23, 25

Okubo, 122

Oppert, Prof. Jules, 118

Oriental Proverbs, 168

Orientalists, Congress of, 47, 168

Origen, 14, 339, 343

Origin of man and animals, 84-86

Origin of Species, 85

Ormuzd, 124, 126

Orpheus, 32, 246-247

Orphic sect, 31

Oseberg, 94

Ovid, 15

Owls, 112

Pahlavi, 134-135

Paley, 364

Pallas Athene, 112

Panchatantra, the, 307, 311

Pandion, King of Athens, 345

Paradise Lost, 205

381Paris, University of, 363

Parrots, 56-57, 359

Parsis, food of the, 119-120; burial customs of, 124; and the Avesta, 133-135; and the Ardâ Vîrâf, 164-165

Parthenon, the, 66-67

Pascal, 356

Patmore, Coventry, 174

Patmos, Seer of, 160

Paul the Hermit, 254

Paulicians, 346

Pausanias, 50-51, 128, 273

Pavia, Corte da, 282

Peace in Nature, 210-212, 231-232, 332-333

Pelicans, legend of, 92

Pereira, Gomez, 354

Pericles, 30, 66

Persepolis, 121, 133

Persians of the eleventh century, 298

Petrarch, 49

Petronius, 51, 58

Philo, 346

Philostratus, 338

Piet, Om, 240

Pigs, 115, 232

Pinder, 294

Pius X., 346

Plato, 15-16, 20

Pliny, 66-67, 353

Plotinus, 344

Plutarch, 45, 62-69, 74, 353

Pluto, 20

Podarges, 26

Political Register (1802), 360

Pompeii, mosaic at, 83

Porphyry, 28, 339, 344, 353

Portionuculo, 260

Primatt, Humphry, 362

Prometheus, 65

Prosecution of animals, 347-351

Provence, 90

Psalms, quotation from, 219-220

382Punishment in the Ardâ Vîrâf, 163-164

Purgatory and animal incarnation, 21

Pythagoreanism, 14-15, 33-34, 59-60, 72, 175, 337, 346

Quartenary Age, 86-88

Quinet, Édouard, 357-358

Rakush, 294-300

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 283

Ravenna, mosaic at, 73

Ravens, 272

Reasoning power of animals, 158-159; Plutarch’s views on, 67-69

Reinach, M. S., 80, 101

Reindeer hunters, 86-89, 96; and the Lapps, 285

Religion of Plutarch, 63

Religions, Congress for History of, 120

Religious knowledge in animals, 72-74; early religions, 93

Renan, 225

Reptiles, killing of, 149

Réville, Albert, 136

Rhinoceroses, 51

Rickaby, Father, 346

Rig-Veda, 113-115, 117, 139

Romanes, Professor, 356

“Rooh Allah,” 231

Rozinante, 290

Rustem, 294-305

Sacerdotalism, 168

Sacontala, 233-234

Sacred birds, animals, and reptiles, 100-101, 104-110

Sacred carpet, 222, 227

Sacrifices, funeral, 12-13; Greek, 24-25; bloodless, 31; belief in, 94; of domestic animals, 95-96; Gift and Pact, 96; Totemism, 97-98; of Persians, 119; in the Bundehesh, 143; to Homa, 148-149; 383for Udra-killing, 156; the “True Sacrifice” legend, 183-184; apostolate for abolition of animal, 337

Sadi, 225

St. Anthony, 254, 259

St. Augustine, 273, 337

St. Bernard, 256-257

St. Columba, 255

St. Edward the Martyr, 274

St. Francis, 74, 167, 234, 257-263

St. François de Sale, 178

St. James, 54

St. Jerome, 253-254

St. Josephat, 261

St. Julien, town of, 349-350

St. Marculphe, 255

St. Martin, 259

St. Paul, 211-212

St. Philip Neri, 347

St. Teresa, 184

St. Thomas Aquinas, 275

Saint-Calais, 255

Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, 358

Sakya Muni, 129, 169, 197

Sama, Legend of, 330-332

Samengan, 299-301

Sásánians, 119, 139-140

Satyricon, 51

Schopenhauer, 206, 258, 361

Sebectighin, 240-241

Secundra Orphanage, 45

Semites (see Hebrews)

Seneca, 59-61, 82

Sensitive Plant, The, 174

Serapeum, 102

Serapis, 336

Serpent, the, 110-111

Sestius, 61

Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, 229-230

Shah Nameh, 141, 294, 301

Shakespeare, William, 256, 282-283

She-wolves of Rome, 44-45

Sheba, 228

Sheikh of Tús, 141

384Shughdad, 303

Siam, 194

Siegemund and Siegelind, 140

Siegfried, 294

Siena, 208

Sikhs, 201

Simurghs, 298

Sivi, King, 321-322

Smith, Dr. H. P., 110

Snakes, in India, 265-266; and the mungoose, 309-311

Societies to protect animals, 356-360

Socrates, 156, 162

Sohrab, 299-305

Solomon in the Valley of Ants, 227

Soma, 148

Somerville, Mrs., 100

Sophocles, 90

Sotio, 60-61

Southey, Robert, 365-366

Srosh, 162

Stable, a sanctuary, 305

Stag, fable of a, 326

Statius, 53, 56-57

Stelæ, 80

Stevenson, R. L., 196

Stoics, the, 65, 71

Stork, legend of a, 255

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, 313

Strauss, 362-363

Sufism, 225

Suicide in India, 186

“Sultan,” 312

Sumner, Charles, 281

Sutras, 11-12

Suttees, 12

Swan-maidens (see Apsarases)

Swine-flesh, forbidding of, 232

Sycamore-tree at Matarea, 248

Symmachus, 52-53

Tahmineh, 301, 303

Taliumen, 142

385Taoism, 105-106

Tatchi-lou-lun, 326

Taylor, John, 283

Taylor, Canon Isaac, 91

Temple, building, 121-122; Jaina temples, 171

Tennyson, 296

Thaumaturgy, 181-183

Thebaid, 181

Theogony, 128

Theophrastus, 56

Theocritus, 83

Thomas, Pseudo-, 248

Three Merchants, Parable of the, 176

Tiberius, 61

Tigers in India, 265-268, 270-272

Tigress, fable of the, 327

Times, The, 360

Tirthakaras, 170-171

Titus, 52

Tobias, 92-93

Tobit’s dog, 114

Todas, 285

Torquemada, 151, 339

Totemism, 96-102, 107, 272

Transformation, 270-280

Transmigration, 11-21, 186-189, 261

Tribal system, 129

Triptolemus, 345

Troglodite Age, 88-89

Trusty Lydia, 58

Udra, the 155-156

Ulemas, 234, 288

Upanishads, 12-13

Uruguay, 298

Valencia, 292

Varro, 275

Varuna, 116

Vedas, 13-14, 20, 93, 117-178, 183, 279-280

Vegetarianism, 167, 172, 193

Velasquez’s horse, 284

386Venidâd, 134, 152, 156-157

Vespasian, 55

Viking ship, 13, 94

Vinci, Leonardo da, 353

Virgil, 25, 275, 336

Vispered, 134

Vivisection, 29, 357

Voltaire, 247, 356

Walaric, 255

Were-wolves, 274-277, 351

Wildebeest and Om Piet, 240

Witchcraft (see Magic)

Wolf, the, 149, 268, 273-277

Wolf of Agobio, 257-258

Women and Jainism, 184-186

Wordsworth, William, 65

Worms, Council of, 348

Wu-hu, 314-315

Wusinara, 317-319

Xanthus, 26-28

Xantippus, 79

Xenocrates, 30

Yama, 20, 158, 203, 324

Yasna, 134-135

Yogis, legend of two, 235

Yudishthira, story of, 322-324

Zal, 294-296

Zarathustra (see Zoroaster)

Zechariah’s war-horse, 284

Zend (see Avesta)

Zoolatry, 144

Zoological Mythology, 290

Zoomorphism in Egypt, 102, 340

Zorák, 142

Zeus, 25, 273

Zoroaster, teaching of, 113, 118-125, 129-165, 225

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