The coasts of illusion

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
Virgil, 75, 247
Virgin gift-bearers, 201
Virgin Mary, 240
Virtues and vices pictured, 47
Vishnu, 134
Vitruvius, 204
Vokearos, the, 166
Volcano Island, 137
Volga River, 107
Von Hutten, 302, 303
Votiaks, the, 29
Voyage of Maldune, 252
Voyage of St. Brendan, 367
Vulture, 43, 338
W
Wagon homes, 155
Wak-wak, 111, 159, 261, 363
Wales, legend of, 255
Wallerius, 41
Walnut tree, 19
Walton, Isaac, 43
Wandering arts, 249
Wapaloosie, 66
Wars over women, Indian, 162-163
Wartburg, 219
Water gods of northern Europe, 97
Water horse, 97, 242
Water sheep, 60
Weddell, 102
Weigall, 143
Welsers, the, 302
West, 204-205;
as home of marvel, 349
West African Rain Forest, 132, 148
West Indies, 287, 290, 291
Westropp, 256
West wind, 262
Whale, 3, 47, 94, 354, 363;
bones of for dwellings, 197
Wheel-shaped maps, 7
Whirlwind the dance of a ghost, 370
White-Corn Boy, 376
White House, 333
White Indians, 4, 331
White Nile, 184
Whitman, Walt, 193
Whore of Babylon, 65
Whydah, 179, 183
Wichita Indians, 326
Wiener, 291, 315
Wild Women, 216
William of Wykeham, 372
Wind-egg, 50
Winged serpents, 70, 233
Winter’s Tale, 249
Wish, power of, 347
Witchcraft, 78, 204, 218, 240-242, 272, 292, 365
Witch Realm of Lapland, 240-242
Wolf, 28, 30, 43, 45, 48, 58
Wolf, Dr., 130
Woman of the Thicket, 216
Women for guests, 364
Women in Mexican revolutions, 169-170
World, a living being, 6
Woodpecker, 29
Words, power of, 347
World summit, theory of, 12-13
Woruisamocos, the, 167
Wu-lung-li-tan, village of, 129
Wyvern, 66
X
Xanadu, 365
Xarayes, Laguna de los, 312, 313, 333
Xecotcovach, the bird, 293
Xenophon, 195, 286
Xerxes, 352
Y
Yacu-mama, 95
Yakuts, the, 57
Yams, 260, 291
Yangste Kiang, the, 137
Yao, the, 128
Yashka, 174
Yazd, 214
Yazel, Abraham, 17
Yedua, 60, 62
Yellow-Corn Girl, 376
Yellow Sea, 259
Yemen, 196
Yen-men, 57
Yima, garden of, 337
Yoruba, 179
Ysopete, 324, 325, 326
Yucatan, 204
Yule, Colonel, 129
Yunnan, 128, 136
Z
Zahm, 207
Zambesi River, 225, 226
Zanzibar, 3, 245, 270, 363, 364
Zell, 192
Zenobia, 169
Zephyria, 50
Zipangu, 12
Zulus, 111, 125
Zuñi, 322, 323
Zuyder Zee, 254

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