“So essential did I consider an Index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive an author, who publishes a book without an Index, of the privilege of copyright, and, moreover, to subject him to a pecuniary penalty.”—Campbell’s Lives of the Chief-Justices of England.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Aahmes I., chaplets from coffin of, 233
“Absalom and Achitophel,” Dryden, 126
“Abyssinia, Life in,” Parkyns, 14
Achemedis, herb, 199
Acipenser, 158
Acosta, “Natvrall and Morall Historie,” 219
Adam, earliest botanist, 181
Addison’s “Milton Imitated,” 99
Adelaide of Louvain, 218
Adissechen, the thousand-headed, 146
Adolf Dux, article by, 197
Ælian on aspis, 147;
on basilisk, 49;
on lion and ram-headed fish, 160;
on unicorn, 9
Æneas Sylvius on barnacle tree, 174
Ætius on basilisk, 49;
on dryinus, 49
“Africa, History of,” Leo, 30
Agnus Dei, as a badge, 74
Alaus Magnus on kraken, 150
Albertus Magnus, “De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 234;
dragon, 28;
on pigmies, 125
Alchemists and phœnix, 54
Aldrovandus, “Monstrorum Historia,” 31, 79, 87, 161
Alimos plant, 197
Amaranth, 177
Amazons, 95
Ambrosia, 183
Amphisbena, 148
Anacramseros plant, 199
Andromeda and Perseus, 19
Annulet as mark of cadency, 232
Anthropophagi, 94
Antipathy between dragon and elephant, 42;
between serpent and stag, 15
Apples of Hesperides, 40;
of Istkahar, 196;
of perpetual youth, 196
Apollo Epicurius, temple of, 222
Apuleius, “The Golden Ass,” 184
Arabia, home of the phœnix, 50
“Arabian Nights,” 7, 40, 69, 132, 140, 196
Archaic pottery, British Museum, 85
Ardoynus on basilisk, 49
Arian v. Athanasian, 209
Arimaspian gold, 69
Arimaspians, 98
Arion and the dolphins, 158
Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso,” 50, 70
Aristotle on chameleon, 77;
on pigmies, 125
Arms of City of London, 70;
of Prince of Wales, 234;
of William de Valence, 134
Arrowheads or Celts, 108
“Art of Love,” King’s, 49
Asbestos, 61
Asphodel, 180
Aspis, 147
Assembly of Beaux Esprits, Paris, 10
Ass, Indian, of Ctesias, 7
“As you Like it,” 54
“Atlas Geographicus,” 231
Aubrey’s “Gentilisme and Judaisme,” 31, 227
Augustine, St., on the manipulation of facts, 216;
on monsters, 41
Avebury stones, 58
Avicen on basilisk, 49
Bacon on the sphinx legend, 83;
“Wisdom of the Ancients,” 220, 224
Badge of Jane Seymour, 53
Balam, the ox, 159
Ballad of dragon of Wantley, 33;
of St. George and dragon, 211
“Bara Bathra,” 151
Basil, herb, 200
Basilisk, king of serpents, 48, 91
Barliata, 175
Barnacle goose-tree, 168
Bartolomeo, standard of, 6
Basking shark, 146
Bay tree, 234
Beaumont and Fletcher’s “Woman Hater,” 48
Beaux Esprits, assembly of, 10
Behemoth legend, 152
Ben Jonson on remora, 159
“Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume, 43
Bestiary of De Thaun, 67, 147, 218
Bewick’s books, 2
Bible Herbal of Newton, 183
Bible references to adder, 67;
amaranth, 178;
cockatrice, 46;
dragon, 19;
giants, 129;
leviathan, 152;
mandrake, 193;
unicorn, 4
Bird of paradise, 135
Blemmyes, headless men, 97
Boiastuau, “Histoires Prodigeuses,” 224
“Boke of Husbandry,” Fitzherbert, 204
Bolyai, tomb of, 197
Bones preserved in churches, 59
Borghese centaur, 85
Borrowing from the fairies, 228
Boussetti on monsters, 161
Brathwait’s “Nature’s Embassie,” 224
Breydenbach’s Travels, 62
Bristol, great bone at, 59
“Britannia,” Camden, 217
“Britannica Concha Anatifera,” 175
British Museum, centaur, 85, 222;
Lansdowne MSS., 31;
Scythian lamb, 71
Brobdingnag, men of, 99
Browne’s “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 199;
“Vulgar Errors,” 31, 69, 190
Brownie, 119
Bruce on the horned viper, 232
Bruynswyke’s Herbal, 182
Bryony roots carved into human form, 190
Bucca, 121
Buckland’s “Curiosities of Natural History,” 60
Buffalo, 12
Burton’s “Miracles of Art and Nature,” 4, 71, 93, 153, 194
Bury Palliser’s “Historic Badges,” 6
Bushmen, the modern pigmies, 127
Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,157, 196;
on nautilus, 155
Cadency in heraldry, 232
Cader Idris, the giant’s seat, 131
Cadwallader, ensign of, 33
Caerleon, great bone at, 59
Camden’s “Britannia,” 217
“Canterbury Tales,” 104
Capitoline Museum sculptures, 222
Cassandra’s gift, 163
Catacombs of Rome, 5
Cathay and the vegetable lamb, 71
Catoblepas of Pliny, 49
Caxton and the “Legenda Aurea,” 22
Cedric the Victorious, 33
Celtic pen-dragon, 33
Celts or arrow-heads, 108
Centaur, 84
Cerastes or horned viper, 232
Cetus of De Thaun, 151
“Ceylon,” Tennant, 127
Changeful colours of dolphin, 157
Changelings, 110
Chang, the Chinese giant, 130
Chaplets in Egyptian tombs, 178
Charles II., dedication to, 47
Chaucer on Sir Guy of Warwick, 56
Chesterfield, great bone at, 59
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Byron, 157, 196
Chilon, 160
China, the dragon symbol, 27
Chiron the Centaur, 222
“Chronicles,” Holingshead, 113
City of London, arms of, 70
Clawed men of Surinam, 97
Clement of Alexandria, 177
Clusius, “Rariorum Plantarum Historia,” 181
Coats, the heraldic chimæra, 84
Coca leaf, 195
Cockatrice, 44
Cockeram’s “English Dictionary,” 198
Coinage, the unicorn, 6
Colebrand the champion, 55
Coleridge on giants, 132
Comptes Royaux of France, 6
“Comus,” Milton, 119
“Coriolanus,” 40
“Corona Dedicatoria” of Sylvester, 53
“Cosmography” of Munster, 173
Cotter, the Irish giant, 130
Cottonian MSS., 218
Coventry, great bone at, 58
Crane and pigmy combats, 125
Crescent as a mark of cadency, 232
Crest of Earl Douglas, 64
Crocodile, reference in Job, 154
Ctesias on griffin, 68;
Indian ass, 7;
on pigmies, 126
Cupid and Psyche, 184
“Curiosities of Natural History,” Buckland, 60
Cuttle fish, 150
Cwm Pwcca, Brecon, 122
Cyoeraeth, 121
Dacien and St. George, 25
Danby, picture by, 184
Dart, 44
Darwin on vampyre bat, 76
Davy Jones’s locker, 161
Dead as a door nail, 124
Dead Sea apples, 196
De Bry’s “India Orientalis,” 185
Decker on the unicorn, 6
“Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” 22, 209
De Ferry and sea-serpent, 144
Democritus on chameleon, 78
“Description Historique de Macaçar,” 186
“Description of 300 Animals,” 2, 44
De Thaun, 8, 67, 136, 147, 151, 191, 218
Device of Francis I., 61;
of Henry VII., 33
Devil fish, 150
Devil’s candle, 193
“De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 234
Diamond softening, 199
Dies, 160
Diocletian the persecutor, 25
Dioscorides on basilisk, 49
Discourses of Virtuosi of France, 10
“Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 103
“Display of Heraldry,” Guillim, 7
Dodoens, Herbal of, 182
Dolphin, 156
Donatus, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Dragon, 2, 16, 133, 192, 211, 229
Dragonhill, Berkshire, 33
Dragonnades, 39
Dragon overthrown, knighthood of, 27
Druids and fairies, 102
Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 126;
on basilisk, 48;
“Flower and the Leaf,” 227;
translation from Ovid, 52
Dryinus of Ætius, 49
Dudaim, 193
Dugdale on Guy of Warwick, 55
Dugong and Manatee, 91
Du Mont and the dragon of Rhodes, 231
Dun cow legend, 55
Eagle gazing on the sun, 133
Eagney or Meto, 197
Earl Douglas, crest of, 64
Eastern Soudan and Uganda, 7
Echeneis or Remora, 158
Eden’s “Historie of Travayle,” 94
Egede and the sea-serpent, 144
Egg-talisman, 147
Egyptian form of sphinx, 82;
love of flowers, 235
Egyptian representations of giraffe, 63
Eikon Basilike, 202
El Dorado and Sir W. Raleigh, 95
Elephant, 15, 79;
antipathy between dragon and, 42
Elf-bolts, 109
Elizabeth, Queen, badge of, 53
El Kazwini, Arab writer, 7
“Elysium,” Felicia Hemans’, 177
Empusa, 14
Enchanter’s nightshade, 193
“English Cyclopædia of Natural History,” 7
“English Dictionary” of Cockeram, 198
“English Parnassus” of Poole, 103, 120
Enmity between stag and serpent, 15
Epitaph on Gryphius, 70
Erasmus on headless men, 97;
Sileni Alcibiadis, 228
Ethiopia, unicorns in, 4
Exodus, reference to unicorn in, 5
“Faculties of Nourishment,” Galen, 180
Fairy rings, 104
Falstaff, on fairies, 110;
the salamander, 64
Fanesii of Scandinavia, 98
Father Pigafetta on dragons, 30
Fauns and satyrs, 86
Featley’s recantation, 31
Felicia Hemans’ “Elysium,” 177
Ferrer de Valcebro on the Barliata, 175
Ferry, Laurent de, on sea-serpent, 144
Field, extract from, 65
Field of the cloth of gold, 61
Fire-drake, 147
“Fire-worshippers,” Moore, 193
Fish nun, 159
Fitzherbert’s “Boke of Husbandry,” 204
Fletcher’s “Purple Island,” 51
Fleur-de-lys as mark of cadency, 232
“Flower and the Leaf,” Dryden, 227
Foersch on upas tree, 185
Forty-leaved plant, 197
Four-footed serpents, 71
Francisci Boussetti on sea-monsters, 161
Friar’s lantern, 123
Fuller’s “Holy State,” 132
Galen on aspis, 147;
on basilisk, 49;
“Faculties of Nourishment,” 180
Garcias ab Horto, on unicorn, 9
Gargoyles of draconic form, 28
Ge and Tartaros, rebellion of, 131
Gelasius, Pope, and St. George, 210
Gelotaphilois, herb, 199
Generation of the cockatrice, 44
“Gentilisme and Judaisme” of Aubrey, 31
“Gentleman’s Magazine,” extract from, 117
Geography of Strabo, 125
George, St., and dragon, 23, 31, 209-211
“Gerania” of Joshua Barnes, 127
Gerarde, “History of Plants,” 168, 180;
asphodel, 180;
barnacle goose-tree, 168;
mandrake, 189
Gervaise, “Description de Macaçar,” 186
Gervase, on fairies, 102
Ghoul, 75
Giant Colebrand, 55
Giants, 128
Giants’ Causeway, 130
Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” 22, 209
Gillius the compassionate, 156
Giraffe or seraffa, 63
Giraldus Cambrensis on barnacle trees, 175
Glanvil, on griffin, 68;
on salamander, 60
Gnomes, 119
Godes-andsacan, 20
“Golden Ass” of Apuleius, 184
Golden fruit of the Hesperides, 40
Graham’s “Sketches of Perthshire,” 121
Greek form of sphinx, 82
Greene on the apples of the Hesperides, 40
Green, Matthew, “The Spleen,” 132
Grevinus on basilisk, 49
Groats from Fairyland, 109, 120, 228
Gryphius, device of, 70
Guerino, Meschino, 98
Guild processions in Middle Ages, 86
Guiana, Hartsinck on, 97;
Sir W. Raleigh on, 95
Guillaume, “Bestiare Divin,” 43
Guillim, “Display of Heraldry,” 7, 41, 46, 88, 134
“Gulliver’s Travels,” 132
Guy of Warwick and the Dun Cow, 55, 217
Halliwell on anthropophagi, 94
Hameh-bird, 140
“Hamlet,” satyr, 86
“Handmayd to Religion,” 31
Harrington and the sea-serpent, 142
Hartsinck on Guiana, 97
Headless men, 94
Hemans, Felicia, poem by, 177
Heraldic bird-forms, 134;
dolphin, 156
“Herball to the Bible” of Newton, 189
Herbert’s “Jacula Prudentum,” 132;
“Relations of some yeares Travaile,” 186
Herb Viva, 198
Hercules and the pigmies, 126
Heraldic cockatrice, 46;
dolphin; 156
griffin, 70;
Pegasus, 73;
phœnix, 53;
unicorn, 4