The Queer, the Quaint and the QuizzicalThe Bride of Abydos.Reading editionChapter navigation709 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterIntroduction.Books with Unpronounceable Names.Most Curious Book in the World.A Long Lost Book Recovered.The Bug Bible.Illuminated Manuscript Bible.The Mazarine Bible.A Book without Words.Wierix's Bible.Gilt Beards.Printed in Gold Letters.Magnificent Latin Bible.Interesting Manuscript Bibles.The Vinegar Bible.Queen Elizabeth's "Oone Gospell Booke."Eliot's Indian Bible.Silver Book.Huge Copy of the Koran.A Lost Book.Book of Riddles.Unique Library.The New England Primer.The Bedford Missal.Lord Kingsborough's Mexico.Imperishable Prison Literature.Puffing their own Books.Sibylline Books.Prophetic Almanacs.Diaries.Literary Ingenuity.Supposed to be a Genuine Island.King of India's Library.Palindromes.Chronogram.Instance of Remarkable Perseverance.Alliterative Whims.Alliterations carried to Absurd Excess.Vacillating Newspapers.Dr. Johnson's Blunders.Blunders of Painters.Thackeray's Geographical Blunders.A Stupid Critic.Crooked Coincidences.The Bride of Abydos.Grandiloquent Outbursts.Dialect Rhyme.In Search of a Rhyme.Noted Anachronisms.Diogenes and his Tub.Slave Advertisements.Sir John Moore not Buried at Night.Cleopatra a Myth.Abelard and Heloise.Odd Titles of Old Books.Title-Pages which Mislead.A Carmelite Friar's Poem.Striking Parallel Passages between Shakspeare and the Bible.Curious Play Bill.Boone's Spelling.Vagaries of Spelling.Singular Specimen of Orthography in the Sixteenth Century.High-Sounding Prologue.Inducements to Subscribers.Composition During Sleep.A Bill of Particulars.Lilly's Predictions.Puritan Surnames.Curious Old Memorandum.Double-Entendre.Changes of Signification.Don Quixote's Sheep.The Oldest Ballad.Two Certificates of Gretna-Green Marriages.Swift's Latin Puns.Rhyming Charter.Cæsar's Wife must be above Suspicion.Oddly Addressed Letters.Amusements of some Learned Men.Kant's Eccentricity.Death Warrant of the Saviour.Quaint Recipes.Chronological Table of Remarkable Events.Hymn in the Form of a Cross.Curious Piece of Antiquity, on the Crucifixion of our Saviour and the two Thieves.Copy of a Letter written by Cardinal Richelieu to the French Ambassador at Rome.Passage through the Isthmus of Panama, Suggested Three Hundred Years Ago.A False Conclusion.Posies from Wedding Rings.Private Expenses of Charles II.First Brick House in Philadelphia.The Pillory in Philadelphia.One Hundred Years too Soon.The Manner of Watchmen Imitating the Clock at Herrnhuth, in Germany.Household Rules in the Sixteenth Century.Hindoo Oaths.Saturday a Fatal Day to the Royal Family of England.Edicts Against Fiddlers.John O'Gaunt's Will.Eccentric Will.Curious Custom at Strasbourg.Tooth-Picks.Phantom Menageries.Curious Law.Curious Historical Coincidence.Born within the Sound of Bow Bells.Refreshments for the Pulpit.Birthdays.Toppling Flower Pots.Electioneering in 1640.Monks Ordered to Shave.Odd Bill for Repairs.Antiquity of Riddles.Cashing Lottery Prizes.Lottery for Women in India.Ancient Lottery.Child Played For.Lotteries.Babes in the Wood.A Little Bird Told Me.Dead Drunk for Twopence.How the Prophecy of the Destruction of Bath came About.Drop-Letter Retort.Dean Swift's Marriage Ceremony.Pious Guide-Posts.A Bogus Dragon.Donation to a Fair.Confectionery Decorations.Superscription to a Letter.In Search of a Looking-Glass.Bleeding for Nothing.An Astonished Lawyer.Duels Fought by Clergymen.A Singular Coincidence.Tavern Screens.Ancient Antipathy to Red Hair.Lightning-Prints.No Buttons but Brass Buttons.Curious Signs in New York.Recipes from Albertus Magnus.Infamous Nankeen.The Military Salute.Book-keeping in Norway.Curious Post-Office.Inordinate Self-Esteem.He's a Brick.Punch and Judy in 1669.Offending Barbers.Primitive Tavern Signs.Watch-Papers.Echo Verse.Signature of the Cross.Simply on Account of her Name.Richelieu's Boast.Curious Parallel.Earliest Clocks.Famous Astronomical Clock.Clock that Strikes Thirteen.Westminster Clock.Wonderful Clock.Vocal Clock.Harrison's Clock.A Cat-Clock.Curious Time-Piece.Clock Presented to Charlemagne.Delicate Machinery.Ancient Dials.Skull Watches.Book-Shaped Watch.Cruciform Watch.Miniature Time-Piece.Resurrection Watch.Borrowing Watches.Striking Watches.Too Many Watches.Wearing Two Watches.Minute Mechanisms.Wonderful Lock.Roman Stamp.Talisman of Charlemagne.The Black Stone at Mecca.The Portland Vase.Martin Luther's Tankard.Brass Medal of the Saviour.Friar Bacon's Brazen Head.Crucifix of Columbus.Scipio's Shield.Horn of Oldenburg.Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Mask.Iron Crown of Lombardy.The Sacro Catino.Curious Lantern.Carrara's Toilet Box.Executioner's Sword.Luck of Eden-hall.Bernini's Bust of Charles I.Burn's Snuff-box.Statue of Memnon.The Head of Orpheus.Wonderful Automata.Temple of the Sun.Tomb of Darius.Temples the First Museums.Wesley's Plate.Grace Knives.Religious Relics.Mammoth Bottle.A Drinking Glass a Yard Long.Kneeling Statue of Atlas.The Druid's Seat.Curious Epitaphs.Great Tom of Lincoln.Mammoth Bell of Buddah.Great Bell of Rouen.St. Fillan's Bell.The Bells of Jersey.Subterranean Christmas Bells.St. Sepulchre's Bell.The Passing Bell.Bell-ringing in Holland.Babes of Bethlehem.Ringing the Changes.Bell Inscriptions.Old Weather Rhymes.Signs of Foul Weather.First Meerschaum Pipe.The First Oval Lathe.Porcelain.Origin of Blue-tinted Paper.Following His Nose.Discovery of Composition for Printing-Rollers.Mezzotinting.Whitening Sugar.Discovery of Glass.Essence of Pearl.Diminutive Note Paper.Etching upon Glass.Lundyfoot's Luck.Citric Acid.A Half-Starved Tramp.Fiddling to some Purpose.German Silver.Isabella Color.Parisian Scarlet.Tyrian Purple.Odor of Patchouli.Veneered Diamonds.Hungary Water.Cork Jackets.Nothing New under the Sun.How the Ancients Rewarded Inventors.Deutsche Luft.The Great Hero of the Bretons.The Wandering Jew.The Pyed Piper.Thomas, the Rhymer.Pontius Pilate at Vienne.The Sea-woman of Haarlem.Legends of Judas Iscariot.Blue Beard.African Rain-Doctors.Whittington and his Cat.Head of James IV. of Scotland.Discovery of the Body of Canute the Great.Martyrdom of Isaiah.Courtship of William the Conqueror.Court Fools.A Cunning Astrologer.Stone Barometer.Crinoline in 1744.Pagoda-shaped Head-dresses.Preserved in Salt.Luxury in 1562.Trains in the Fourteenth Century.Foppery in Eminent Men.The Turban in Arabia.Queen Elizabeth's Dresses.Absurdities of the Toilet.Gambling for Fingers.Pigmies.The Letter "M" and the Napoleons.The Physician's Symbol.Chinese Giants.Trying Land Titles in Hindostan.An Asylum for Destitute Cats.Treasure Digging.House of Hen's Feathers.St. George's Cavern.Remarkable Echoes.Moving Gods.Roving Tinkers.The Freischutz.Moon-struck.Curious Locality for Saying Prayers.Egyptian Physicians.Not Divine until Smeared with Red Paint.Gipsy Reticence.Carrying Coals to Newcastle.Mammoth Pawnbroker's Shop.Half-Penny and Farthing.An Egg Mistaken for a Pearl.Spacious Halls.Medallions only for the Royal.The Queen's Vow.Swearing on the Book.Chinese Oath.Color of the Hat for Cardinals.Cat-Concert.Mob Wisdom.Queer Arctic Music.Fineness of Indian Muslins.Mummies Converted into Paint.Swallowed by an Earthquake and Thrown out Again.Scripture Prices.Manufacturing Feat.Wall Paper Pattern.Feathers for the Ladies.A Man Carries his House on his Head.Queen Anne's Farthings.No Lead in Lead Pencils.Whalebone.Light from Potatoes.A Very Long Word.Cobblers' Stalls in Rome.Luminous Human Bodies.Sacred Anchors.Anne Boleyn's Gloves.Adding Insult to Injury.St. Anthony's Fire.Before Houses were Numbered.Monkish Prayers.A Mammoth Feast.Gluttony of the Monks.Ancient Smokers.Gipsy Dance.Chinese Medical Prescriptions.Queer Evidence of Divinity.Picnics Centuries Ago.Skeletons at Feasts.Hair Cutting in Russia.Antiquity of Tarring and Feathering.Grinning for a Wager.Eating for a Wager.Curious Wagers.The Jumping Jack.Love-handkerchiefs.Umbrellas.Fashionable Disfigurement.Fine for Insulting a King.True-Lovers' Knots.Hundred Families' Lock.The King's Cock-crower.Mourning Robes.Mole-skin Eyebrows.Praying for Revenge.Selling Snails.Coral and Bells.Bagging his Rival.Deepened Damnation.Ancient Bit of Waggery.A Walking Apothecary Shop.To Disappoint his Wife.Boots an Object of Honor.St. Cuthbert's Beads.Eating Animals that have Died a Natural Death.Embalmed in Honey.Perfumed Butter.Wine at Two Millions a Bottle.Opal of Nonius.Children's Day in Japan.Cock-Fighting among the Ancient Greeks.Colors Most Frequently Hit in Battle.Immense Value Placed upon Gems by the Ancients.Candle Clock.Twins in Africa.Right and Left Hand.Earliest Traders.The First Hermits.The First Opera.The First Artificial Limb.Kircher's Speaking-Trumpet.Fish Market at Scarborough.Few Fish Found at Sea.Musical Stones.Musical Sand.A River of Ink.A Warlike Bantam.Oyster-dredging Chaunt.Normandy Treasures.Tenacity of Odors.Antiquity of Acrobatic Figures.Saffron as a Perfume.Spontaneous Combustion.Egyptian Perfumes.Magic Rain Stone.Decapitation by the Guillotine.Chateaubrun's Escape from the Guillotine.A Lucky Find.Paradise of Old Hats.Wedding-Rings.The Prince of Charlatans.One Meal a Day.Gold-headed Canes for Physicians.Yearly Food of one Man.Eating Tea.Human Hair.Durability of Bricks.Origin of Long-toed Shoes.A Good Tenant.Three Borrowed Days.Luncheon.Value of a Long Psalm.Barbers' Basins.Strained Politeness.Can a Clergyman Marry Himself?Novel Way of Curing Vicious Horses.Pope's Skull.Pawning Bibles and Waterloo Medals.A Drum made of Human Skin.Groaning Boards.Abyssinian Tradition.Cutting Timber by the Moon.An Artist Tradition.Born of a Peri.A Regal Hunting Party.Care of the Beard.A Royal Sportsman.Origin of Attar of Roses.Effect of a New Nose.Cader Idris Couch.Rights and Lefts.Efficacy in a Mutilated Saint.Feasts at Coronations.A Baker's Dozen.Wonderful Exhibition with Bees.A Treacherous Talisman.The Cavern Chapel.Glastonbury Thorn.Buying and Selling.Fairy Treasure.Hour Glasses in Coffins.Macduff's Cross.Woman's Cleverness.Queer Place to Secrete a Diamond.Incredible Liars.Force of Imagination.A Wife Returned.Life in Death.Remedy for Bad Dreams.The Letiche.Hell-stones.The Golden Tooth.The Devil Regarded as a Benefactor of the Human Race.Curse of Scotland.Curse of Innocent Blood.Legend of an Inventor.A Strange Legend.Abraham and Sarah.Tradition of the Temple.Magnetic Cures.May Dew a Cure for Freckles.Singular Hindoo Vow.Satanic Superstitions.Healing by the King.Hallow E'en Customs.St. Agnes' Eve.St. Patrick's Birthday.Wassailing the Orchards.Cutting Off the Fiddler's Head.Striking with Nettles.Singular Burial Customs.Treatment of Lepers in England.Kissed while Asleep.How the Chinese Secure a Pastor.Easter-Box.Antipathies.Superstitions Respecting Bees.Welcoming the New Moon.The Bodach Glas.Strange Instance of Sympathy.Double Apparition.Spirit of Dundee.Captain Kidd's Vision.Sir Henry Wotton's Strange Dream.Supernatural Appearance at Holland House.Old Grimaldi's Death.Twelfth-night Omens.Twofold Apparition.Dr. Donne's Apparition.Picture Omens.Felling Oaks.Lord Bacon's Dream.Reckless Disregard of Omens.Sailors' Whistling.The Hinder Well-spout Unlucky.Assuming the Form of a Bird.Talismanic Stones in Birds.Birds Prognosticating Death.The Crossbill.The Ostrich.Honoring the Lark.The Nightingale.The Blackbird originally White.The Dove.Killing a Robin.The Cuckoo.Why the Cuckoo Builds no Nest.The Magpie.Why the Magpie Builds but Half a Nest.A Swallow Drinks the King's Health.Birds of Paradise.The Owl.The Phœnix.The Wren.White-breasted Birds.The Penguin's Solitary Egg.The Crocodile Plover.Peacocks' Crests.Worshipful Cranes.The Great Auk.The Kingfisher.The Albatross.The Stork.Cocks and Hens.Led by a Gander.Crows Lost in a Fog.The Peacock at Home.Story of the Dodo.An Old Gander.Chaffinch Contest.The Fabulous Roc.Fable of the Pelican.Night Owls.Imprisoned During Incubation.Love-Birds.Penguin Breeding Grounds.The Ear of Birds not to be Deceived.A Bird Hammock.Sagacity of a Bird.Change of Sight in Birds.Nest of the Flamingo.Barking of Dogs.Superstitions about Eggs.The Camel as a Scape-Goat.The Mark of the Cross on the Ass.White Elephants.Tenacity of Life in an Elephant.Ears of the Elephant.A Shaved Bear.Retailing a Lion.Magpie Stoning a Toad.Cynocephalic Apes.Monkeys Demanding their Dead.Can Dogs Count?Can Hens Count?How Rats and Mice use their Tails.Kicked by a Camel.Crocodiles of the Nile.Alligators Swallowing Stones.Animals Forecasting Danger.Singular Provision against Famine.Looking for the Head of the Bed.Getting Himself Outside of his Dinner.Superstition about the Camel.Pedigree of Arabian Horses.Voracity of the Mole.Cat Worship.Horses Feeding one Another.Odd Mode of Revenge.Cats with Knotted Tails.Tortoises Afraid of Heat and Rain.Pea Crabs.Extraordinary Muscular Strength of the Bat.Great Digestive Powers.The Earwig.Eyes of the Cuttle-Fish.Innate Appetite.Leaf-Butterfly of Java.The Jump of a Flea.Book-Worms.Spider Barometers.Muscles of the Caterpillar.A Persistent Fly.Phosphorescent Insects.Eating Clouds.A Hundred Stomachs.Motherly Sacrifice by the Gall Insect.Wonderful Spider's Web.Horrible Mode of Assassination.Fighting Fish.A Snake's Attachment for Home.Queer Legend about Fish.An Old Pike.Colossal Shells.Changing Colors in a Dying Mullet.An Immense Zoological Cabinet.Chank-Shell.Edifices of the Polypi.Showers of Blood.Shirts Growing on Trees.Whistling Trees.Aconite.Oysters Growing on Trees.The Shaking Aspen.Tree Planting in Java.Turkish Superstition about the Geranium.Four-leaved Clover.Bitterness of Strychnia.Copied from Nature.Rose of Jericho.Curious Oranges.Trifoliated Plants considered Sacred.The Belladonna Lily.Thirty Years in Blossoming.Mouse-Ear.Mugwort.The Shoe-black Plant.St. John's Wort.Vegetable Fungus.The Rose at Midsummer.The House Leek.Ordeal of the Cross.Ordeal of the Eucharist.Ordeals in Africa.Ordeal of Cold Water.Ordeal of Chewing Rice.Ordeal by Fire.Ordeal of Touch.Chinese Veneration for the Lily.The Passion Flower.Burned Wastes Replenished.Unlucky Stumbling.Patagonian Superstitions.Superstition about the Caul.The Will-with-a-Wisp.Cramp Rings.Horseshoes.Breaking a Piece of Money.Love Charms.Spellbound.Amulets Inserted under the Skin.Divining Rods.Washing but Once in a Lifetime.Looking Back.Toad-Stone Rings.Royal Dinner Time.Throwing an Old Shoe.Cock-crowing an Omen of Victory.The Unicorn's Horn.The Evil Eye in Spain.Witchcraft Charms.A Mountain Highway.A Buffalo's Skull.Superstitious Notion of the Number One.Thunder and Lightning.Manna Marked with the Number Six.The Seventh Son of the Seventh Son.Virtue in the Number Seven.Onomancy.Mystic Gifts.Exterminating Vermin.Perforated Stones.St. Helena Coins.Weighing a Witch.Poetry of Omens.House Crickets.Sitting Cross-Legged.The Death-Watch.Sundry Rural Charms.Charm against Dogs.Barnacles.Odd Way to Discover a Dead Body.The Salagrama Stone.Charm for the Cramp.Fisherman's Luck.Luck of Birthdays.Sleeping on Stones.Spilling Salt.Charm for the Ague.Ancient Practice of Medicine.Amethyst Amulets.Preservative against Toothache.Mixed Moons.The Blood of the Martyrs.The First Sale for the Day.Arsenic as an Amulet.Red Tape a Protection against the Plague.Owl's Claws.Witch-ridden Horses.A Smuggler's Talisman.Rubbing with a Gold Ring.Divination of the Bible and Key.Visions of Destiny.Selecting an Avocation.Spitting for Luck's Sake.May Marriages Unlucky.Pin Superstitions.Superstitions about Children.Digging for Water.Wolf Superstition.Stanching Blood.Arab Charms.Superstitions among the Bretons.Blessing of Beasts.Moles.Whipping Toads to Produce Rain.The First Butterfly.Child-Stealing Elves.INDEX.Previous chapter ←Crooked Coincidences.Next chapter →Grandiloquent Outbursts.All chapters and sections (709)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsIntroduction.Books with Unpronounceable Names.Most Curious Book in the World.A Long Lost Book Recovered.The Bug Bible.Illuminated Manuscript Bible.The Mazarine Bible.A Book without Words.Wierix's Bible.Gilt Beards.Printed in Gold Letters.Magnificent Latin Bible.Interesting Manuscript Bibles.The Vinegar Bible.Queen Elizabeth's "Oone Gospell Booke."Eliot's Indian Bible.Silver Book.Huge Copy of the Koran.A Lost Book.Book of Riddles.Unique Library.The New England Primer.The Bedford Missal.Lord Kingsborough's Mexico.Imperishable Prison Literature.Puffing their own Books.Sibylline Books.Prophetic Almanacs.Diaries.Literary Ingenuity.Supposed to be a Genuine Island.King of India's Library.Palindromes.Chronogram.Instance of Remarkable Perseverance.Alliterative Whims.Alliterations carried to Absurd Excess.Vacillating Newspapers.Dr. Johnson's Blunders.Blunders of Painters.Thackeray's Geographical Blunders.A Stupid Critic.Crooked Coincidences.The Bride of Abydos.Grandiloquent Outbursts.Dialect Rhyme.In Search of a Rhyme.Noted Anachronisms.Diogenes and his Tub.Slave Advertisements.Sir John Moore not Buried at Night.Cleopatra a Myth.Abelard and Heloise.Odd Titles of Old Books.Title-Pages which Mislead.A Carmelite Friar's Poem.Striking Parallel Passages between Shakspeare and the Bible.Curious Play Bill.Boone's Spelling.Vagaries of Spelling.Singular Specimen of Orthography in the Sixteenth Century.High-Sounding Prologue.Inducements to Subscribers.Composition During Sleep.A Bill of Particulars.Lilly's Predictions.Puritan Surnames.Curious Old Memorandum.Double-Entendre.Changes of Signification.Don Quixote's Sheep.The Oldest Ballad.Two Certificates of Gretna-Green Marriages.Swift's Latin Puns.Rhyming Charter.Cæsar's Wife must be above Suspicion.Oddly Addressed Letters.Amusements of some Learned Men.Kant's Eccentricity.Death Warrant of the Saviour.Quaint Recipes.Chronological Table of Remarkable Events.Hymn in the Form of a Cross.Curious Piece of Antiquity, on the Crucifixion of our Saviour and the two Thieves.Copy of a Letter written by Cardinal Richelieu to the French Ambassador at Rome.Passage through the Isthmus of Panama, Suggested Three Hundred Years Ago.A False Conclusion.Posies from Wedding Rings.Private Expenses of Charles II.First Brick House in Philadelphia.The Pillory in Philadelphia.One Hundred Years too Soon.The Manner of Watchmen Imitating the Clock at Herrnhuth, in Germany.Household Rules in the Sixteenth Century.Hindoo Oaths.Saturday a Fatal Day to the Royal Family of England.Edicts Against Fiddlers.John O'Gaunt's Will.Eccentric Will.Curious Custom at Strasbourg.Tooth-Picks.Phantom Menageries.Curious Law.Curious Historical Coincidence.Born within the Sound of Bow Bells.Refreshments for the Pulpit.Birthdays.Toppling Flower Pots.Electioneering in 1640.Monks Ordered to Shave.Odd Bill for Repairs.Antiquity of Riddles.Cashing Lottery Prizes.Lottery for Women in India.Ancient Lottery.Child Played For.Lotteries.Babes in the Wood.A Little Bird Told Me.Dead Drunk for Twopence.How the Prophecy of the Destruction of Bath came About.Drop-Letter Retort.Dean Swift's Marriage Ceremony.Pious Guide-Posts.A Bogus Dragon.Donation to a Fair.Confectionery Decorations.Superscription to a Letter.In Search of a Looking-Glass.Bleeding for Nothing.An Astonished Lawyer.Duels Fought by Clergymen.A Singular Coincidence.Tavern Screens.Ancient Antipathy to Red Hair.Lightning-Prints.No Buttons but Brass Buttons.Curious Signs in New York.Recipes from Albertus Magnus.Infamous Nankeen.The Military Salute.Book-keeping in Norway.Curious Post-Office.Inordinate Self-Esteem.He's a Brick.Punch and Judy in 1669.Offending Barbers.Primitive Tavern Signs.Watch-Papers.Echo Verse.Signature of the Cross.Simply on Account of her Name.Richelieu's Boast.Curious Parallel.Earliest Clocks.Famous Astronomical Clock.Clock that Strikes Thirteen.Westminster Clock.Wonderful Clock.Vocal Clock.Harrison's Clock.A Cat-Clock.Curious Time-Piece.Clock Presented to Charlemagne.Delicate Machinery.Ancient Dials.Skull Watches.Book-Shaped Watch.Cruciform Watch.Miniature Time-Piece.Resurrection Watch.Borrowing Watches.Striking Watches.Too Many Watches.Wearing Two Watches.Minute Mechanisms.Wonderful Lock.Roman Stamp.Talisman of Charlemagne.The Black Stone at Mecca.The Portland Vase.Martin Luther's Tankard.Brass Medal of the Saviour.Friar Bacon's Brazen Head.Crucifix of Columbus.Scipio's Shield.Horn of Oldenburg.Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Mask.Iron Crown of Lombardy.The Sacro Catino.Curious Lantern.Carrara's Toilet Box.Executioner's Sword.Luck of Eden-hall.Bernini's Bust of Charles I.Burn's Snuff-box.Statue of Memnon.The Head of Orpheus.Wonderful Automata.Temple of the Sun.Tomb of Darius.Temples the First Museums.Wesley's Plate.Grace Knives.Religious Relics.Mammoth Bottle.A Drinking Glass a Yard Long.Kneeling Statue of Atlas.The Druid's Seat.Curious Epitaphs.Great Tom of Lincoln.Mammoth Bell of Buddah.Great Bell of Rouen.St. Fillan's Bell.The Bells of Jersey.Subterranean Christmas Bells.St. Sepulchre's Bell.The Passing Bell.Bell-ringing in Holland.Babes of Bethlehem.Ringing the Changes.Bell Inscriptions.Old Weather Rhymes.Signs of Foul Weather.First Meerschaum Pipe.The First Oval Lathe.Porcelain.Origin of Blue-tinted Paper.Following His Nose.Discovery of Composition for Printing-Rollers.Mezzotinting.Whitening Sugar.Discovery of Glass.Essence of Pearl.Diminutive Note Paper.Etching upon Glass.Lundyfoot's Luck.Citric Acid.A Half-Starved Tramp.Fiddling to some Purpose.German Silver.Isabella Color.Parisian Scarlet.Tyrian Purple.Odor of Patchouli.Veneered Diamonds.Hungary Water.Cork Jackets.Nothing New under the Sun.How the Ancients Rewarded Inventors.Deutsche Luft.The Great Hero of the Bretons.The Wandering Jew.The Pyed Piper.Thomas, the Rhymer.Pontius Pilate at Vienne.The Sea-woman of Haarlem.Legends of Judas Iscariot.Blue Beard.African Rain-Doctors.Whittington and his Cat.Head of James IV. of Scotland.Discovery of the Body of Canute the Great.Martyrdom of Isaiah.Courtship of William the Conqueror.Court Fools.A Cunning Astrologer.Stone Barometer.Crinoline in 1744.Pagoda-shaped Head-dresses.Preserved in Salt.Luxury in 1562.Trains in the Fourteenth Century.Foppery in Eminent Men.The Turban in Arabia.Queen Elizabeth's Dresses.Absurdities of the Toilet.Gambling for Fingers.Pigmies.The Letter "M" and the Napoleons.The Physician's Symbol.Chinese Giants.Trying Land Titles in Hindostan.An Asylum for Destitute Cats.Treasure Digging.House of Hen's Feathers.St. George's Cavern.Remarkable Echoes.Moving Gods.Roving Tinkers.The Freischutz.Moon-struck.Curious Locality for Saying Prayers.Egyptian Physicians.Not Divine until Smeared with Red Paint.Gipsy Reticence.Carrying Coals to Newcastle.Mammoth Pawnbroker's Shop.Half-Penny and Farthing.An Egg Mistaken for a Pearl.Spacious Halls.Medallions only for the Royal.The Queen's Vow.Swearing on the Book.Chinese Oath.Color of the Hat for Cardinals.Cat-Concert.Mob Wisdom.Queer Arctic Music.Fineness of Indian Muslins.Mummies Converted into Paint.Swallowed by an Earthquake and Thrown out Again.Scripture Prices.Manufacturing Feat.Wall Paper Pattern.Feathers for the Ladies.A Man Carries his House on his Head.Queen Anne's Farthings.No Lead in Lead Pencils.Whalebone.Light from Potatoes.A Very Long Word.Cobblers' Stalls in Rome.Luminous Human Bodies.Sacred Anchors.Anne Boleyn's Gloves.Adding Insult to Injury.St. Anthony's Fire.Before Houses were Numbered.Monkish Prayers.A Mammoth Feast.Gluttony of the Monks.Ancient Smokers.Gipsy Dance.Chinese Medical Prescriptions.Queer Evidence of Divinity.Picnics Centuries Ago.Skeletons at Feasts.Hair Cutting in Russia.Antiquity of Tarring and Feathering.Grinning for a Wager.Eating for a Wager.Curious Wagers.The Jumping Jack.Love-handkerchiefs.Umbrellas.Fashionable Disfigurement.Fine for Insulting a King.True-Lovers' Knots.Hundred Families' Lock.The King's Cock-crower.Mourning Robes.Mole-skin Eyebrows.Praying for Revenge.Selling Snails.Coral and Bells.Bagging his Rival.Deepened Damnation.Ancient Bit of Waggery.A Walking Apothecary Shop.To Disappoint his Wife.Boots an Object of Honor.St. Cuthbert's Beads.Eating Animals that have Died a Natural Death.Embalmed in Honey.Perfumed Butter.Wine at Two Millions a Bottle.Opal of Nonius.Children's Day in Japan.Cock-Fighting among the Ancient Greeks.Colors Most Frequently Hit in Battle.Immense Value Placed upon Gems by the Ancients.Candle Clock.Twins in Africa.Right and Left Hand.Earliest Traders.The First Hermits.The First Opera.The First Artificial Limb.Kircher's Speaking-Trumpet.Fish Market at Scarborough.Few Fish Found at Sea.Musical Stones.Musical Sand.A River of Ink.A Warlike Bantam.Oyster-dredging Chaunt.Normandy Treasures.Tenacity of Odors.Antiquity of Acrobatic Figures.Saffron as a Perfume.Spontaneous Combustion.Egyptian Perfumes.Magic Rain Stone.Decapitation by the Guillotine.Chateaubrun's Escape from the Guillotine.A Lucky Find.Paradise of Old Hats.Wedding-Rings.The Prince of Charlatans.One Meal a Day.Gold-headed Canes for Physicians.Yearly Food of one Man.Eating Tea.Human Hair.Durability of Bricks.Origin of Long-toed Shoes.A Good Tenant.Three Borrowed Days.Luncheon.Value of a Long Psalm.Barbers' Basins.Strained Politeness.Can a Clergyman Marry Himself?Novel Way of Curing Vicious Horses.Pope's Skull.Pawning Bibles and Waterloo Medals.A Drum made of Human Skin.Groaning Boards.Abyssinian Tradition.Cutting Timber by the Moon.An Artist Tradition.Born of a Peri.A Regal Hunting Party.Care of the Beard.A Royal Sportsman.Origin of Attar of Roses.Effect of a New Nose.Cader Idris Couch.Rights and Lefts.Efficacy in a Mutilated Saint.Feasts at Coronations.A Baker's Dozen.Wonderful Exhibition with Bees.A Treacherous Talisman.The Cavern Chapel.Glastonbury Thorn.Buying and Selling.Fairy Treasure.Hour Glasses in Coffins.Macduff's Cross.Woman's Cleverness.Queer Place to Secrete a Diamond.Incredible Liars.Force of Imagination.A Wife Returned.Life in Death.Remedy for Bad Dreams.The Letiche.Hell-stones.The Golden Tooth.The Devil Regarded as a Benefactor of the Human Race.Curse of Scotland.Curse of Innocent Blood.Legend of an Inventor.A Strange Legend.Abraham and Sarah.Tradition of the Temple.Magnetic Cures.May Dew a Cure for Freckles.Singular Hindoo Vow.Satanic Superstitions.Healing by the King.Hallow E'en Customs.St. Agnes' Eve.St. Patrick's Birthday.Wassailing the Orchards.Cutting Off the Fiddler's Head.Striking with Nettles.Singular Burial Customs.Treatment of Lepers in England.Kissed while Asleep.How the Chinese Secure a Pastor.Easter-Box.Antipathies.Superstitions Respecting Bees.Welcoming the New Moon.The Bodach Glas.Strange Instance of Sympathy.Double Apparition.Spirit of Dundee.Captain Kidd's Vision.Sir Henry Wotton's Strange Dream.Supernatural Appearance at Holland House.Old Grimaldi's Death.Twelfth-night Omens.Twofold Apparition.Dr. Donne's Apparition.Picture Omens.Felling Oaks.Lord Bacon's Dream.Reckless Disregard of Omens.Sailors' Whistling.The Hinder Well-spout Unlucky.Assuming the Form of a Bird.Talismanic Stones in Birds.Birds Prognosticating Death.The Crossbill.The Ostrich.Honoring the Lark.The Nightingale.The Blackbird originally White.The Dove.Killing a Robin.The Cuckoo.Why the Cuckoo Builds no Nest.The Magpie.Why the Magpie Builds but Half a Nest.A Swallow Drinks the King's Health.Birds of Paradise.The Owl.The Phœnix.The Wren.White-breasted Birds.The Penguin's Solitary Egg.The Crocodile Plover.Peacocks' Crests.Worshipful Cranes.The Great Auk.The Kingfisher.The Albatross.The Stork.Cocks and Hens.Led by a Gander.Crows Lost in a Fog.The Peacock at Home.Story of the Dodo.An Old Gander.Chaffinch Contest.The Fabulous Roc.Fable of the Pelican.Night Owls.Imprisoned During Incubation.Love-Birds.Penguin Breeding Grounds.The Ear of Birds not to be Deceived.A Bird Hammock.Sagacity of a Bird.Change of Sight in Birds.Nest of the Flamingo.Barking of Dogs.Superstitions about Eggs.The Camel as a Scape-Goat.The Mark of the Cross on the Ass.White Elephants.Tenacity of Life in an Elephant.Ears of the Elephant.A Shaved Bear.Retailing a Lion.Magpie Stoning a Toad.Cynocephalic Apes.Monkeys Demanding their Dead.Can Dogs Count?Can Hens Count?How Rats and Mice use their Tails.Kicked by a Camel.Crocodiles of the Nile.Alligators Swallowing Stones.Animals Forecasting Danger.Singular Provision against Famine.Looking for the Head of the Bed.Getting Himself Outside of his Dinner.Superstition about the Camel.Pedigree of Arabian Horses.Voracity of the Mole.Cat Worship.Horses Feeding one Another.Odd Mode of Revenge.Cats with Knotted Tails.Tortoises Afraid of Heat and Rain.Pea Crabs.Extraordinary Muscular Strength of the Bat.Great Digestive Powers.The Earwig.Eyes of the Cuttle-Fish.Innate Appetite.Leaf-Butterfly of Java.The Jump of a Flea.Book-Worms.Spider Barometers.Muscles of the Caterpillar.A Persistent Fly.Phosphorescent Insects.Eating Clouds.A Hundred Stomachs.Motherly Sacrifice by the Gall Insect.Wonderful Spider's Web.Horrible Mode of Assassination.Fighting Fish.A Snake's Attachment for Home.Queer Legend about Fish.An Old Pike.Colossal Shells.Changing Colors in a Dying Mullet.An Immense Zoological Cabinet.Chank-Shell.Edifices of the Polypi.Showers of Blood.Shirts Growing on Trees.Whistling Trees.Aconite.Oysters Growing on Trees.The Shaking Aspen.Tree Planting in Java.Turkish Superstition about the Geranium.Four-leaved Clover.Bitterness of Strychnia.Copied from Nature.Rose of Jericho.Curious Oranges.Trifoliated Plants considered Sacred.The Belladonna Lily.Thirty Years in Blossoming.Mouse-Ear.Mugwort.The Shoe-black Plant.St. John's Wort.Vegetable Fungus.The Rose at Midsummer.The House Leek.Ordeal of the Cross.Ordeal of the Eucharist.Ordeals in Africa.Ordeal of Cold Water.Ordeal of Chewing Rice.Ordeal by Fire.Ordeal of Touch.Chinese Veneration for the Lily.The Passion Flower.Burned Wastes Replenished.Unlucky Stumbling.Patagonian Superstitions.Superstition about the Caul.The Will-with-a-Wisp.Cramp Rings.Horseshoes.Breaking a Piece of Money.Love Charms.Spellbound.Amulets Inserted under the Skin.Divining Rods.Washing but Once in a Lifetime.Looking Back.Toad-Stone Rings.Royal Dinner Time.Throwing an Old Shoe.Cock-crowing an Omen of Victory.The Unicorn's Horn.The Evil Eye in Spain.Witchcraft Charms.A Mountain Highway.A Buffalo's Skull.Superstitious Notion of the Number One.Thunder and Lightning.Manna Marked with the Number Six.The Seventh Son of the Seventh Son.Virtue in the Number Seven.Onomancy.Mystic Gifts.Exterminating Vermin.Perforated Stones.St. Helena Coins.Weighing a Witch.Poetry of Omens.House Crickets.Sitting Cross-Legged.The Death-Watch.Sundry Rural Charms.Charm against Dogs.Barnacles.Odd Way to Discover a Dead Body.The Salagrama Stone.Charm for the Cramp.Fisherman's Luck.Luck of Birthdays.Sleeping on Stones.Spilling Salt.Charm for the Ague.Ancient Practice of Medicine.Amethyst Amulets.Preservative against Toothache.Mixed Moons.The Blood of the Martyrs.The First Sale for the Day.Arsenic as an Amulet.Red Tape a Protection against the Plague.Owl's Claws.Witch-ridden Horses.A Smuggler's Talisman.Rubbing with a Gold Ring.Divination of the Bible and Key.Visions of Destiny.Selecting an Avocation.Spitting for Luck's Sake.May Marriages Unlucky.Pin Superstitions.Superstitions about Children.Digging for Water.Wolf Superstition.Stanching Blood.Arab Charms.Superstitions among the Bretons.Blessing of Beasts.Moles.Whipping Toads to Produce Rain.The First Butterfly.Child-Stealing Elves.INDEX.In this poem of Byron's there is no bride, for the heroine dies heart-broken and unwedded.◇← Crooked Coincidences.Grandiloquent Outbursts. →