Part 31
“I now beg to interpret the signs of the night. If at midnight an individual hears the noises of animals in the house where he resides, I will show him whether they indicate good or evil. If any insect cry ‘click, click, click,’ he will possess real treasures while he abides there. If it cry ‘kek, kek,’ it is an evil omen both to that and the neighboring houses. If it cry ‘chit, chit,’ it denotes that he shall always feed upon the most sumptuous provisions. If it cry ‘keat, keat,’ in a loud, shrill voice, it denotes that his residence there shall be attended with evil.
“I now beg to interpret with regard to the Spider. If a Spider on the ceiling utter a low, tremulous moan, it denotes that the individual who hears the noise shall either change his residence or that his goods shall be stolen. If it utter the same voice on the outside of the house, and afterward the Spider crawl to the head of the bed, it denotes troublesome visitors and quarrels to the residents.”[1263]
Thevenot, in his Travels into the Levant, relates the following: “But I cannot tell what to say of a Moorish Woman who lives in a corner close by the quarter of France, and pulls worms out of Children’s Ears. When a Child does nothing but cry, and that they know it is ill, they carry it to that Woman, who, laying the Child on its side upon her knee, scratches the ear of it, and then Worms, like those which breed in musty weevily Flower, seem to fall out of the Child’s Ear; then, turning it on the other side, she scratches the other Ear, out of which the like Worms drop also; and in all there may come out ten or twelve, which she raps up in a Linen-Rag, and gives them to those that brought the Child to her, who keep them in that Rag at home in their House; and when she has done so she gives them back the Child, which in reality cries no more. She once told me that she performed this by means of some words that she spake. There was a French Physician and a Naturalist there, who attentively beheld this, and told me that he could not conceive how it could be done; but that he knew very well that if a child had any of these Worms in its head it would quickly die. In so much that the Moors and other inhabitants of _Caire_ look upon this as a great Vertue, and give her every time a great many _maidins_ (pieces of money). They say that it is a secret which hath been long in the Family. There are children every day carried to her, roaring and crying, and as many would see the thing done, need only to follow them, provided they be not Musulman Women who carry them, for then it would cost an _Avanie_; but when they are Christian or Jewish Women, one may easily enter and give a few _maidins_ to that Worm-drawer.”[1264]
This is most probably but a sleight-of-hand performance, since “worms, like those which breed in musty weevily flower,” could easily be obtained and concealed in her hand or sleeve; imagination would then effect the cure, as probably it had done the disease.
Dr. Livingstone and his party, in traveling in South Africa, sometimes suffered considerably from scarcity of meat, though not from absolute want of food. And the natives, says this traveler, to show their sympathy, gave the children, who suffered most, a large kind of caterpillar, which they seemed to relish. He concluded these insects could not be unwholesome, for the natives devoured them in large quantities themselves.[1265]
INDEX.
Abortion, Ant to cause, 170; from hurt, Cochineal to prevent, 262.
Abraxas for curing diseases, 37-39.
_Acanthocinus ædilis_, 73. _tribulus_, 74.
_Acaridæ_, 321.
_Acarus_, 320, 321.
_Acheta domestica_, 92-97.
_Achetidæ_, 92-97.
Acid made from Ants, 161.
_Acridites lincola_, 126.
Acridophagi, account of the, 120.
Adultery, insect to detect, 367.
Africa, Ants in, 156-7; Bees, 191, 200; Butterflies, 227, 231; Caterpillars, 372; Crickets, 95; Dragon-flies, 140; Flies, 288; Gnats, 282; Goliath-beetle, 46; Larvæ, 71; Lice, 317; Locusts, 101-130; Mantis, 84-88; Soap from beetle, 23; Spiders, 354; Termites, 132-137.
Agaric-Gnat, 286.
_Agestrata luconica_, 49.
_Agrotis telifera_, 247.
Ague, Bed-bugs as a remedy for, 67; Dung-beetle, 44; Oil of Scorpions, 330; Spiders, 357-360; Stag-beetle, 26.
Albugo, Cobwebs remedy for, 357.
Ali Gamooni, forger of Scarab-gems, 38, n.
Alopecia, Bees remedy for, 206.
Altars ornamented with Chrysalids, 231.
Amber, Ant inclosed in, 169; Bee, 212.
America, Bees in, 197; Crickets, 95; Fleas, 313; Gnats, 281; Lady-birds, 21; Lice, 318; Musk-beetle, 73; Spiders, 354.
Amputation on account of Chigoes, 315.
Animals becoming plants, 90-92; Egyptian worship of, theory on, 43, n.
_Anobium pertinax_, 61. _striatum_, 61. _tesselatum_, 58-61.
_Anopleura_, 316-320.
Ant-hills, ovens made of, 134.
Antipathy to Beetles, 74; Spiders, 344.
Antler-moth, 246.
_Ant-lions_, 141.
_Ants_, 146-170, 196, 295, 322, 327, 356.
Anus, prolapsed, Scarab remedy for, 44.
_Aphaniptera_, 305-315.
_Aphidæ_, 257-259.
_Aphis humuli_, 258.
_Apidæ_, 174-215.
_Apis centuncularis_, 213.
Apple-blossoms, May-bugs produced with, 47.
Apocalypse, symbolical Locusts of the, 123.
Apollo, Locusts destroyed by, 128.
Aquitaine, bloody-rain in, 218.
Arabia, beetle eaten by women of, 65; Silk-worms in, 239.
_Arachnida_, 321-362.
_Araneidæ_, 332-362.
_Aranea diadema_, 361.
_Aranea edulis_, 354. _obtextrix_, 347. _tarantula_, 351.
_Arctiidæ_, 242-245.
_Arctia chrysorrhœa_, 242.
Armies routed by Mosquitoes, 282.
Armpits, Silk-worms hatched under, 240.
Arms, Bees on coat of, 196; Butterfly, 229.
Army-worm, 247.
Arrows tipped with poison of an Ant, 161.
Artificial flowers, beetles upon, 23.
Artillery employed against Ants, 168; Locusts, 106.
_Ascarides_ in human stomach, 67.
Asia, Honey-dew in, 257; Locusts, 103-130.
Ass, dung of, for sting of Scorpions, 326; Fleas do not bite, 310; Hornets generated from carcass of, 171; Locusts, 101; Scarabs, 170; Scarab supposed to make its balls of the dung of, 28; Silk woven by an, 241; sting of Scorpions transferred to, 325; Wasps generated from carcass of, 170.
Assyria, Egyptian Scarab-gems among ruins of, 39-41.
Assyrians, Locusts eaten by the, 126.
Astringent, Galls as an, 145.
Astronomical subjects, Scarab connected with, 33, 37.
_Ateuchus Ægyptorum_, 29. _sacer_, 29-43.
Athenians, golden cicadas worn by, 251; Locusts eaten by, 120.
Athens, so-called Flies at, 291, n.
Atrophy, Lice remedy for, 319.
Auks, snow colored red by, 220, n.
Australia, Butterflies in, 231; Flies, 288; larvæ eaten in, 70.
Automaton Flies, 294.
Azores, _Coccidæ_ in, 264.
Baalzebub worshiped under form of a Fly, 292.
Back, Termite queens for strengthening the, 137.
Baldness, Bees remedy for, 206; Flies, 295.
Balm, antidote for poisons, 193; Bee-hives prepared with, 190.
Banian Hospital for animals, 266.
Banks, Sir Joshua, Spiders eaten by, 356.
Barbados, Ants in, 167; Ash-colored Cricket, 92; Ash-colored Grasshopper, 98; Gnats, 279; Grou-grou worm, 70; Lantern-flies, 256.
Barbary, Locusts in, 105-130.
Barley, Glow-worms indicate ripeness of, 58.
Bashikouay-ants, 157, 158.
Basilidians, abraxas invented by the, 37.
Basill, the herb, Scorpions generated from, 322.
Basilisks, Scorpions generated from, 322.
Battles of Ants, 151; Gnats, 278.
Bats eaten in Cumana, 99; to drive away Locusts, 114.
Beans for sting of Scorpions, 327.
Bears, Ants eaten by, to purge, 163; fat and blood of, to kill Caterpillars, 245; man saved by a, 196.
_Bed-bugs_, 265-274, 306.
Bedeguar, 144.
Beds, to rid of Bugs, 266; Scorpions to cool, 324.
Bee-moth, 248.
_Bees_, 174-215.
Beggars hired as food for vermin, 266; Lice eaten by, 318.
Bell, Caterpillars cursed with a, 243.
Besiegers routed with Bees, 204; by Mosquitoes, 283.
Beetle-headed, 49.
Beetles, 17-75.
Bermuda, Butterflies in, 227; Spiders, 354, 362.
Berries, Cochineal supposed to be, 261.
Bezoar-stone for sting of Scorpions, 326.
Bible, Ant in the, 148; Bees, 184; Flea, 313; Gnat, 285; Locusts, 101, 128.
Birds preserved to destroy Locusts, 114.
Bishop Barnabee, Lady-bird so called, 19.
Black-beetles, 78-82.
Blacksmith-beetle, 55.
_Blapsidæ_, 65-68.
_Blaps mortisaga_, 65, 68, 78.
_Blatta Americana_, 79. _fœtida_, 78. _orientalis_, 79. of the ancients, 78.
_Blattidæ_, 78-82.
Bleeding of wounds, cobwebs to arrest, 357.
Blind as a beetle, 49.
Blindness, Death’s-head Moth supposed to cause, 233.
_Blister-flies_, 62-64.
Blood, showers of, 216-225.
Boars drowned in Honey, 211.
Boils cured by Ants, 162.
_Bombicidæ_, 234-241.
_Bombus_, 213.
_Bombyx Madroni_, 239. _mori_, 234.
Books perforated by beetles, 61.
_Bostrichidæ_, 61.
_Bostrichus typographus_, 61.
Botany, study of, from cabinet of insects, 369.
_Bot-flies_, 302-304.
Brain, Scorpion in a woman’s, 322.
Brandy flavored with Ants, 161.
Brides in Holland, pupæ compared to, 232.
Briers, May-bug grubs changed into, 48.
Brazen Fly, game so called, 294.
Brazil, Ants in, 160, 168; Blister-flies, 63; Diamond-beetles, 68; Gold-beetles, 23; Termites, 134-5.
Browny invoked in hiving Bees, 190.
Bruce and the Spider, 333.
Bubo, pestilential, Oil-beetles for, 63.
Buenos Ayres, Flies in, 287.
Buffalo, Locusts a cross between the and Spider, 113.
Bug-bear, meaning of, 265.
Bug-poison, vending of, in London, 268.
Bull, fat of, in charm to destroy Fleas, 308.
Bullocks, Bees generated from, 183.
_Burn-cows_, 50-51.
Burnie-bee, Lady-bird so called, 22.
Burning Spiders for amusement, 350.
_Buprestidæ_, 50-51.
_Buprestis attenuata_, 50. _fascicularius_, 51. _maxima_, 50. _ocellata_, 50. _vittata_, 50. in Egypt, 29. of the ancients, 51.
_Butterflies_, 216-232.
Butter, Grou-grou worm made into, 69.
Cabbage-tree worm, 68-70.
_Cactus cochinilifer_, 261.
Caffres make ovens of Ant-hills, 134.
_Calandra palmarum_, 27, 68-70.
_Calichroma alpina_, 367.
California, Mosquitoes in, 284.
_Callidryas alcmeone_, 227. _hilariæ_, 227. _pyranthe_, 227.
Cameleons, Meal-worms as food for, 65.
Camels employed in stealing gold from Ants, 146.
Canaan subdued with Hornets, 171.
Canary Islands, Locusts in, 104.
Cancers, Cockroaches cure for, 78.
Candle, why Moths fly in a, 242.
Canker-worms, 248.
_Canis corsac_ supposed to be the fabled gold-loving Ant of India, 148.
Cannon employed against Fleas, 308.
_Cantharidæ_, 62-64.
_Cantharides_, 62-64, 193.
Cantharidine, 63.
_Cantharis vesicatoria_, 62-64.
_Cantharis_ in head of mummy, 41.
Cantharus of the ancients, 27.
Caprification of figs, 144.
Capua, burning of, foreshown by Ants, 173.
_Carabidæ_, 23.
Carbuncle, Oil-beetle remedy for, 63.
_Carabus chrysocephalus_, 71.
Carcasses, Bees tenanting, 194.
Caravans, Bee-, 199.
Carcinoma, Buprestis remedy for, 51.
Cardinals, Spiders so called, 342.
Carli and the Ants, 156.
Carpenter-bee, 213.
Carriages drawn by Fleas, 312.
Caribbean Islands, Bees in, 204; Cucujus in, 53.
Catamenia, women with, Caterpillars destroyed by, 244; Buprestis for, 51.
Catarrh, Crickets remedy for, 96.
Catch-’em-alive papers, sellers of, 296.
Caterpillars, 158, n., 242-248.
Cattle, Bees generated from carcasses of, 183; Daddy-Long-legs to find lost, 321; killed by Bees, 203; Mosquitoes, 283; sting of Sirex, 142; Spiders cure for poisoned, 360; warbles of, 303; whistle to call, made of beetle-shards, 369.
Cats, Scarab-images with heads of, 36.
Cayenne, Ants in, 162.
Cedar, Spiders repelled by, 341.
Centipedes as food, 365.
_Cerambycidæ_, 72-74.
_Cerambyx moschatus_, 73.
Ceres, the Ant an attribute of, 152.
_Cetoniidæ_, 49.
Ceylon, Ants in, 158; Bees, 214; Black-ants, 157; British soldiers tortured with Ants, 158; _Buprestidæ_, 50; Butterflies, 227; Gnats, 282; _Oryctes rhinoceros_, 46; superstitions connected with insects, 46; Termites, 135; Wood-carrying Moth, 245.
Chained Fleas, 312.
Chalk, Ants cannot pass over a line of, 169.
Chapelain, anecdote of, 332.
Charity, sugar given to Ants as an act of, 152.
Charles XII., army of, impeded by Locusts, 106.
Charm for Bots in horses, 302.
Chelonitis used in raising tempests, 45.
Chemical process to destroy Locusts, 116.
Chestnut, Spiders repelled by, 341.
Chickens made to close Bee-hives against the Bee-moth, 249.
Chigoes, 341.
Chili, Gold-beetles in, 23.
China, _Aphis_ for dyeing in, 258; Blister-flies in, 63; _Buprestidæ_, 50; Butterflies, 229; Cicadas, 253; _Copris molossus_, 44; Grasshoppers, 100; insect to discover unchastity, 367; to forward delivery, 368; Lantern-fly, 256; Locusts, 112-130; Mantis, 87; Silk-worms, 234-241; Smelling-bug, 266, 272; Solitary Wasp, 174.
_Chlænius saponarius_, 23.
_Chlorops læta_, 287.
Cholera, Flies die before breaking out of, 290.
Christiana, Queen, Fleas cannonaded by, 308.
Chrysalids of Butterflies venerated, 230.
_Chyrsomelidæ_, 23.
Chululahs, Spider in cosmogony of the, 342.
_Church-yard Beetles_, 65-68.
_Cicada chinensis_, 255. _septemdecim_, 253.
_Cicadidæ_, 250-255.
Cicindela, larvæ of, how captured, 97.
_Cimex brassicæ_, 267. _juniperinus_, 267.
_Cimex lecturarius_, 265-274. _pratensis_, 267.
_Cimicidæ_, 265-274.
City abandoned on account of Ants, 169; depopulated by Bees, 204; of Myas dispeopled by Fleas, 307; of Nisibis, siege of, raised by Mosquitoes, 283; of Tamly saved with Bees, 204.
Clay, Locusts made from, 118; of Ant-hills, uses of, 134.
Clothes’-moth, 248.
Clothes, suit of, foretold by Measuring-worm, 248.
Clouds, Gossamer supposed to form, 349.
Cobra-de-Capello and the Ants, 157.
_Coccidæ_, 259-264.
_Coccinella septempunctata_, 17-23.
_Coccinellidæ_, 17-23.
_Coccus cacti_, 260. _ficus_, 263. _Hesperidum_, 264. _ilicis_, 259. _lacca_, 263. _polonicus_, 260. _uvæ-ursi_, 260.
Cochineal, 260, 317, n.
Cock, brains of, for bite of Spider, 356.
_Cock-chafers_, 47-49.
_Cockroaches_, 78-82.
Coffee-bug, 158.
Coffin, Bees alighting on, 188; clothes laid on, to keep away Moths, 249.
Coffin-cutter, the, of the Irish, 368.
Coins, Bees on, 194; Scarab-gems supposed to be, 36.
Cold in horses, Hornets’ nest for, 172.
_Coleoptera_, 17-75.
_Colias edusa_, 227.
Colic, Lady-birds remedy for, 21; Scorpions, 329.
Comet, Locusts sent by, 113; omens from, 246.
Commerce, Crickets as an article of, 95; Mantis, 92.
Communication between Ants, 155.
Conception, Spiders to prevent, 360.
Conjuror of Bees, 201.
Conradus, Bishop, Spider drank in wine by, 356.
Consumption, Honey-dew for, 257.
Continental money, Bees on, 197.
Convulsions, Silk-worms for, 240.
Coprion of the ancients, 27.
_Copris molossus_, 44. _sabæus_, 41. in Egypt, 29.
Coral for sting of Scorpions, 326.
_Corixa femorata_, 276. _mercenaria_, 276.
Corn, Indian mode of destroying Caterpillars injurious to, 244; Stag-beetle supposed to injure, 25; stored by Ants, 148-150.
Correspondence by means of Cucuji, 53.
Cortes, army of, saved from attack by Cucuji, 53.
Cosmogonies, Spiders in various, 342.
_Cossus_ of the ancients, 27, 74.
Counterfeiting Scarab-gems, 38, n.
Country depopulated by Spiders and Scorpions, 353.
Courtezans, Cantharides employed by, 62.
_Corynetes violaceous_, 41.
Cow, in names of Lady-bird, 17; killed by Ants, 156; bewitched by killing Ants, 152; Scarab figured with head of, 35.
Crabley, Mrs. Jane, stiffness in knees of, cured by Ants, 162.
Crabs for sting of Scorpions, 326.
_Crane-flies_, 286.
Cray-fish, Scorpions generated from, 322.
Creator, Scarab sacred to, 30; symbol of, 29.
Creoles not attacked by Chigoes, 315.
Crete, Galls eaten in, 145.
_Crickets_, 92-97.
Crimea, Gnats in, 282; Locusts, 116.
Criminals tortured with Ants, 158; Flies, 296; Mosquitoes, 284.
Crimson, Galls for dyeing, 258; Cochineal, 259.
Crocodile, Scorpions generated from carcass of, 323; Wasps, 171; Scorpions enemies to, 324; worship of, in Egypt, 43, n.
Crow, dung of, for sting of Scorpions, 326.
Cuckoo to prevent breeding of Fleas, 307.
Cucujus, 51.
_Culex pipiens_, 278.
_Culicidæ_, 278-286.
Cumana, Grasshoppers eaten in, 98.
_Curculionidæ_, 68-72.
_Curculio anti-odontalgicus_, 71. _Bacchus_, 71. _jæcac_, 71. in a plum, 76.
Cut-worm, 246.
_Cynipidæ_, 143-145.
_Cynips ficus caricæ_, 144. _gallæ tinctorum_, 144. _glecome_, 144. _insana_, 145. _psenes_, 144. _rosæ_, 144.
Daddy-Long-legs, 321.
Dance, Hottentot Bee-, 211.
Dank food, Bots generated from, 303.
_Day-flies_, 138.
Dead, Leather-beetles buried with the, 24; Scarab-images, 36.
Dead Sea fruits, 145.
Deafness, Ants remedy for, 161; Ear-wigs, 76.
Death, Bees informed of a, 185-188; omens of, from Bees, 181, 185; Black-beetle, 82; Butterflies, 229; Caterpillars, 242; Church-yard beetle, 65; Crickets, 92-95; Death-watch, 58-61; Dragon-fly, 140; Glow-worm, 57; Hawk-moth, 232; Mantis, 83; Spiders, 340.
Death’s-head Moth, 232.
_Death-watch_, 58-61, 93.
Debility, Termites remedy for, 137.
_Decticus verrucivorus_, 100.
Deer killed by Ants, 157; their antidote for poisons, 353; Wasps generated from the head of, 171.
Dejeau, Genl. Count, anecdote of, 368.
Democritis, fondness of, for Honey, 209.
Denmark, Dung-beetle in, 28.
_Dermestes elongatus_, 24, 41. _pollinctus_, 24, 41. _roei_, 24, 41. _vulpinus_, 24, 41.
_Dermestidæ_, 24.
Devil, Fleas attributed to the envy of the, 311; in the shape of a Flea, 310; Fly, 293.
Dew, scorched, Gossamer supposed to be, 348.
_Diamond-beetles_, 23, 68.
Diaphoretic, Bees as, 206.
Diarrhœa, Rose-gall for, 144.
Digger Indians, Grasshoppers eaten by, 99.
_Diptera_, 278-304.
Disease, foretold by Gnats, 280.
Disjonval and his Spiders, 336.
Distemper in horses, Hornets’ nest for, 172.
Diuretic, Bees as, 206.
Dog, fat of, to destroy Nits, 320; Fleas generated from humors on, 305; foiled with Bees, 201; Scarab-images with heads of, 36.
Domitian, anecdote of, 332.
_Dragon-flies_, 138-140.
Dragon of St. George, Flies generated from, 304.
Dreams, signification of, of Ants and Bees, 152; Flies, 289; Locusts, 119; insects in general in Siam, 370.
Dr. Ellison, Lady-bird so called, 20.
Drink, Honey-dew as a, 257.
Dropsy, Cantharides for, 63.
Drouth foretold by Grasshoppers, 100.
Du Chaillu runs from Ants to save his life, 157.
Dufour, Mrs. A. L. R., verses by, 131, 243.
_Dung-beetles_, 27-45.
“Duo,” the pronouncing of, to prevent Scorpions stinging, 325.
Dust, Fleas generated from, 305.
Dwarfs, Gossamer woven by, 349.
Dyeing, Cochineal used in, 260; Galls used in, 145.
_Dynastes Goliathus_, 46, 47. _Hercules_, 45-47.
_Dynastidæ_, 45-47.
Dysentery, bedeguar for, 144.
Dysury, Grasshoppers for, 100.
Eagle, Beetle’s revenge upon, 45.
Ear, Beetle in the, of Capt. Speke, 79, n.; Cockroach in the, of a Swede, 79; _Blatta_ of Pliny for diseases of the, 66; Bugs, 267; Cockroaches, 78; Crickets, 97; Spiders, 357; Stag-beetles, 26; worms extracted from children’s, 371.
_Ear-wigs_, 76, 77.
East Indies, Locusts in, 112, 113; Termites, 137.
Egypt, Beetles eaten by the women in, 65; buried with the dead, 24; bloody-waters, 223, n.; _Buprestis_, 29; _Copris_, 29; Cicadas, 253; frontiers of, made known from inscriptions on Scarabæi, 35; Gnats in, 282; insects embalmed in, 41; Locusts in, 101, 113; Scarab worshiped, 29-42; Scorpions in, 328.
Egyptian pottery, Flies on, 292; worship of animals, theory on, 43, n.
_Elateridæ_, 51-55.
_Elater noctilucus_, 51-55, 255.
Elephant named _Lucas_, 24; put to flight by Ants, 157.
Elf-shot, cattle said to be, 303.
Elizabeth, Queen, silk stockings worn by, 238.
Eloquence foretold by Bees, 178.
Embalmed, _Buprestis_, 30; House-fly, 41; Scarab, 41.
Embalming, Honey used for, 208.
Embroidered, Spiders, on ladies’ dresses, 354.
Emerald, Beetle engraven on, against witchcraft, 44.
Emmets, 146-170.
Emperor of China and the Locusts, 128.
Enchantment, counter-charm for, 192.
Encouragement taken from an Ant, 154; Spider, 333.
Enemies represented by a Scorpion and a Crocodile fighting, 324; sign of, from dreams of Flies, 289.
England, Aphides in, 258; Bed-bugs, 265, 299; beetles buried with the dead, 24; Bees, 181-184; bloody-rain, 217; _Buprestidæ_, 50; Caterpillars, 242; Crickets, 92-94; Death’s-head Moth, 233; Fleas, 314; Flies, 287; Gnats, 278; hedge-hogs kept to kill roaches, 78; Lady-birds in, 17-23; Locusts, 107; silk and silk-worms, 238; Spiders, 336; Stag-beetles, 25.
Engravers, Scarab used by, to steady their sight, 44.
Enormous prices paid for insects, 46, 64.
Equator, Lice leave sailors when crossing, 317.
_Epeira clavipes_, 362.
_Ephemeridæ_, 138.
Epigram compared to a Scorpion, 331; on an Ant, 169; Bee, 212; Silk-worm, 241.
Epilepsy, larvæ of Bots for, 302.
Epitaph, cure for worms, on account of an, 363.
_Erinaceus Europæus_, 78.
_Eruca officinalis_, 245.
Esteem for Ant-lions, 141.
Etruscans, Egyptian Scarab adopted by, 39.
Etymology of Cricket, 97; Locust, 130; _Pulex_, 305.
Eucharist, holy, respect of Bees for, 174-177.
_Eumeta_, 245.
_Eumolpus auratus_, 23.
_Eunota amphyoxis_, 224.
_Euplexoptera_, 67-77.
_Euplœa coras_, 228. _prothoe_, 228.
Europe, Antler-moth in, 246; Bee-caravans, 199; Deaths’-head moth, 233; Dragon-flies, 139; insect ornaments, 44; Locusts in, 102-130; Mantis, 83; Silk-worms, 235; Termites, 132-137; trade in insects, 366.
_Eutimis nobilis_, 68.
Evil eye, silk-worms susceptible to, 239.
Exorcised, Ants, 169; Locusts, 116; Turnip-fly, 74.
Eyes, cobwebs for defluxions of, 356; green Scarab for, 44; Honey in preparation for, 209; oil of Scorpions for, 330; Scarab for protuberating, 44.
_Eynchitus aureus_, 71.
Fairies, Ants supposed to be, 152; Gossamer spun by, 349.
Famine foretold by Grasshoppers, 100; maggot, 143; Mantis, 83.
Farriers, Cantharides employed by, 64.
Fat, beetle eaten by women to become, 65.
Fecundity, Scarab symbolical of, 33; eaten to cause, 33.
Fever, Bugs medicine for, 367; Honey-dew, 257; Spiders, 357, 359; sign of, from dreams of Flies, 289.
Fever, man dead from, Scarab symbol of, 33.
Figs, caprification of, 144; for sting of scorpions, 326.
Fighting, beetles kept for, 368; Mantis, 87.
Fire, alarms of, occasioned by Gnats, 278.
_Fire-flies_, 51-55.
Fires occasioned by Stag-beetles, 25; Scorpion surrounded with, 328; to destroy Canker-worms, 248.
Fish killed by a Spider, 346; Locusts hatched from spawn, 118; for sting of Scorpions, 326; spawn of, sold for eggs of silk-worms, 241.
_Flata limbata_, 254.
Flatterers compared to Flies, 291.
_Fleas_, 266, 273, 135, 305-315.
Fleur de lis, origin of, on arms of France, 196.
_Flies_, 287-301, 306, 324.
Flight, extent of the Bee’s, 200; Locust’s, 129.
Floors made from clay of Ant-hills, 134.
Flora, Ants’ remedy for, 161.
Flour, Bees steal, from a mill, 191.
Flying-bulls, 25.