“Heraldry, display of,” by Guillim, 7, 41, 46
Herodotus, griffin, 69;
phœnix, 50, 52;
pigmies, 125
Hesiod, chimæra, 84;
harpy, 87
Hesperides, garden of the, 40
Heylin on St. George, 31
Hilary, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Hindu sacred groves, 177
Hippice, 199
“Histoire Naturelle,” 231
“Histoires Prodigeuses,” Boiastuau, 224
“Historia Monstrorum,” 31, 79, 87, 161, 224
“Historic Badges,” Palliser, 6
“Historie of Travayle” of Eden, 94
“History of Africa,” John Leo, 30
“History of Ethiopia,” Ludolphus, 231
Hog-faced gentlewoman, 92
Holingshead’s “Chronicles,” 113
Holland’s edition of Pliny, 155
Hollerius, 201
Hollybush, Miles Coverdale, 183
“Holy State,” Fuller, 132
“Holyday devotions,” 31
Home of the pigmies, 126
Homer, ambrosia, 183;
asphodel, 180;
centaur, 85;
harpy, 87;
“Iliad,” 125, 184;
“Odyssey,” 177
Hondius and Sir W. Raleigh, 95
“Honour, Titles of,” Selden, 32
Hoole’s “Orlando Furioso,” 50
Horned viper or cerastes, 232
Hudibras, quotation from, 168
“Humana Physiognomonia,” of Porta, 93
Humma-bird, 136
Huppe-bird, 136
Hydra, 149
Ibis, 137
Idolatrous groves, 177
Ignis fatuus, 122
Indian ass, 7;
serpent legend, 163
“India Orientals,” of De Bry, 185
Invisibility of fairies, 103
Iormungandur the encircler, 146
Isaiah, reference to cockatrice, 46
Isidore on onocentaur, 85
Jack-o’-Lantern, 122
Jack the Giant-killer, 128
“Jacula Prudentum,” by Herbert, 132
Jane Seymour, badge of, 53
Java and its upas trees, 184
Jeremiah, cockatrice, 46;
dragon, 41
“Jerusalem Delivered,” Tasso, 99
Job, leviathan, 152;
unicorn, 5
Jodocus Hondius, 95
John Leo, “History of Africa,” 30
John of Arragon, salamander device of, 61
Johnson on Gerarde, 172
Joshua Barnes, the “Gerania,” 127
Juvenal, pigmy combats, 125
Kadmos, founding of Thebes, 38
Kalli Naga, 20
Kalpa Tarou tree, 176
Kerzereh flowers, 188
Kew, lotus chaplets at, 179, 233;
upas tree at, 185
Keymis on Guiana, 96
“King Henry IV.,” 74, 112, 123, 190
“King Lear,” 39
“King’s Art of Love,” 49
Knockers, 117
Kobold, 119
Kœmpfer on upas tree, 186
Koran, the fish nun, 159;
the lote tree, 176;
the ox Balam, 159
Kraken, 149
Kuchlein’s illustrations, 98
Kyonjik sculptures, 177
Label as a mark of cadency, 232
Ladon and the Hesperides, 40
“L’Allegro” of Milton, 120, 123
Lamia, 13
Lane’s “Arabian Nights,” 7, 40, 69
Languedoc and its dragon, 21
Lansdowne MSS. in British Museum, 31, 227
Lapithæ and Centaurs, 222
Laurence Keymis on Guiana, 96
Laurent de Ferry and sea-serpent, 144
“Legenda Aurea” of Voraigne, 22
Legends of the Talmud, 152, 159
Leo, “History of Africa,” 30
“Life in Abyssinia,” Parkyns, 14
Lig-draca, 20
Lion, 3
Lion-headed fish, 160
“Lives of the Saints,” 22
Livre des Créatures, De Thaun, 218
Lobel and Pena’s book, 175
Lobos, Father, and the unicorn, 231
Lomie, 71
London, arms of City of, 70
Long-eared men or Fanesii, 98
Lote tree of Koran, 176
Lotophagia, 177
Loup-garou or wehr-wolf, 75
Loup, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Louvre, Borghese centaur, 85, 222
Lucian on asphodel, 180
Ludolphus, “History of Ethiopia,” 231
Lurlei of the Rhine, 90
Lyte and Dodoens, herbal of, 182
Mab, the fairy queen, 103, 120
“Macaçar; Description Historique du Royaume de,” 186
“Macbeth,” 39
Magrath, the giant, 130
Maid of Orleans and the mandrake, 189
Mallwyd, great bone at, 59
Manatees and Dugongs, 91
Mandeville on griffin, 68;
headless men, 97;
pigmies, 196;
vegetable lamb, 71
Mandrake, 188
Man-eater and Rompo, 12
Mansfield Parkyns’ “Life in Abyssinia,” 14
Manticora, 13
Maori traditions, 127
Marcel, St., dragon-slayer, 21
Marco Polo’s travels, 219
Marks of abatement and augmentation, 88;
of cadency, 134
Martha, St., dragon-slayer, 21
Martial, St., dragon-slayer, 21
Martin, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Martin’s “Philosophical Grammar,” 229
Mary Stuart, badge of, 204
Matthew Green, “The Spleen,” 132
Matthiolus, herbal of, 181
McQuahee and the sea-serpent, 143, 145
“Measure for Measure,” 131
Mediæval dragon recipes, 29;
festivals, 98
“Merchant of Venice,” 196
Metamorphoses, 202
Meto or Eagney, 197
Metopes of Parthenon, 222
Michovius on griffin-land, 69
“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 39, 90, 120
Miles Coverdale, Hollybush, 183
Milton, amaranth, 178;
Arimaspians, 98;
chimæra, 84;
gorgon, 84;
griffin, 69;
harpy, 87;
hydra, 84;
“L’Allegro,” 120, 123;
“Paradise Lost,” 98, 123, 178;
Will o’ the wisp, 123
“Milton imitated,” Addison, 99
Mimosa sensitiva, 198
Minotaur, 48
“Miracles of Art and Nature,” Burton, 4, 71, 93, 153, 194
Monacella, St., bone of, 59
Money, fairy, 109, 120, 227, 228
“Monstrorum Historia” of Aldrovandus, 31, 79, 87, 161, 224
Monuments of Egypt, 63
Moore, “Fire worshippers,” 193;
Kerzereh flower, 188;
“Lalla Rookh,” 107, 135;
“Paradise and the Peri,” 54, 136;
“Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” 188
More Hall of Wantley, 34
Mountain fish, 149
Mouse, 16
“Much Ado about Nothing,” 87
Munster’s “Cosmography,” 173
Murphy the Irish giant, 130
Musical tastes of the dolphin, 158
Narcissus, possibly the asphodel, 180
National Library, Paris, 44
“Natural History of Norway,” Pontoppidan, 145
“Nature’s Embassie,” Brathwait, 223
“Natvrall and Morall Historie” of Acosta, 219
Naud the pen-dragon, 33
Nautilus, 155
Nech of Scandinavia, 121
Nectar of the gods, 183
Newton’s “Bible Herbal,” 183, 189
Newts spitting fire, 64
Nicander on the aspis, 147
Nickard, 229
“Night Thoughts,” Young, 126
Nineveh and Persepolis, sculptures at, 19
Ninina, unicorns of, 231
Nis, 119
Nixies, 102
Nova Hispania, flora of, 197
Nun, the fish, 159
“Nuremburg Chronicle,” 97
Nymphs, 119
Nzi Khonsou, the princess, 233
Oats, fairy, 100
Oberon, 103
Octavianus the reliable, 175
Octopus, 150
Odysseus, the Lotophagi, 177;
the Sirens, 89
Og, the king of Bashan, 129
Ojibiway legend of the serpent, 163
Olaus Magnus and the sea-serpent, 143
Onocentaur, 85
Ophyasta, herb, 199
Oppian, pigmy combats, 125
Order of the dragon, 22;
of the dragon overthrown, 27
Oribasius on the basil, 201
Origin of fairies, 101
“Orlando Furioso,” of Ariosto, 50, 70
Orpheus and the Sirens, 89
“Ortus sanitatis,” 219
Osiris the judge, 178
“Othello,” 189
Ovid on ambrosia, 183;
phœnix, 52
Owen, Professor, on sea-serpents, 145
Ox Balam, the, 159
Ox, wild, 15
Oyle of castor, 153
Palliser’s “Historic Badges,” 6
Pan, 124
Paracelsus on the phœnix, 54
“Paradise Lost,” Milton, 98, 123
“Paradise and the Peri,” Moore, 54, 136
Parker on poisonous trees, 187
Parkinson’s “Theater of Plants,” 172, 180, 190
Parkyns’ “Life in Abyssinia,” 14
Paulus Venetus on unicorn, 9
Peccata Naturæ, 42
Pedal sunshades, 98
Pegasus, 73
Pelican legend, 133
Pelion on Ossa, 131
Pen-dragon, 33
Pennant Melangell, great bone at, 59
Percy’s “Reliques of Antient English Poetry,” 34, 56, 211
“Peregrine Pickle” of Smollett, 162
Persepolis, sculptures at, 19
Perseus and Andromeda legend, 19
“Perthshire, Sketches of,” 121
Pheg of the Tsi-hiai, 152
Philostratus on the pigmies, 125
“Philosophical Grammar,” Martin, 229
Phoca, Pooka, or Pwcca, 121, 133
Phœnix-tree, 217
Pigafetta on dragons, 30
Pigmies, 124
Pink centaury, 85
Pliny on basilisk, 48;
bay-tree, 201;
chameleon, 78;
dolphin, 156;
dragon, 29, 42;
Echeneis, 158;
Fanesii, 98;
giant, 130;
kraken, 149;
nautilus, 155;
phœnix, 51;
pigmies, 125;
salamander, 60;
serpent’s eggs, 147;
sphinx, 82;
stag, 15;
unicorn, 9;
wolf, 11
Plutarch’s giant, 130
Poison-detecting cups, 4, 6, 7
Poison of salamander, 62
Polonius and the whale, 152
Polyphemus, the foe of Ulysses, 99
Pomum Adami, 196
Pontoppidan, Kraken, 150;
“Natural History of Norway,” 145
Poole’s “English Parnassus,” 103
Pope, nautilus, 155;
“Rape of the Lock,” 119
Pope Pius II. on barnacle trees, 175
Porpoises as sea-serpents, 144
Porta’s “Humana Physiognomonia,” 93
Potto, 16
Prester John, 126
Prince of Wales, arms of, 232
Prior on the chameleon, 77
“Proper study of mankind is man,” 81
Psalms, reference to adder, 67;
leviathan, 154;
unicorn, 5
“Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 199
Puck, 102
Purchas Pilgrimage, 219
“Purple Island” of Fletcher, 51
Python, 20
Queen Elizabeth, badge of, 53
Quentin Durward, Scott, 12
Raleigh, Sir W., voyage to Guiana, 95
Ram-headed fish, 160
“Rape of the Lock,” 119;
of Lucrece, 70
“Rariorum Plantarum Historia” of Clusius, 181
Red-dragon ensign, 33
Red lion, 3
Reginald Scot on witchcraft, 103
Regulus, 46
“Relations of some yeares Travaile,” 186
“Reliques of Antient English Poetry,” 34, 56, 211
“Reminiscences,” Taylor, 145
Remora, 158
Resurrection, phœnix type of, 50
Rhinoceros horn cups, 7
Rhodes, dragon of, 231
Ribbon fish, 145
Richardson on phœnix, 54
Riddle of the sphinx, 83
Romanus, St., dragon-slayer, 20
“Romeo and Juliet,” 40, 45, 190
Rompo or man-eater, 12
Rondelet’s sea-monsters, 161
Rose as mark of cadency, 232
Royal arms, supporters of, 6
Royal Society, Proceedings of, 10, 71, 230
Rustic beliefs as to newts, &c., 64
Sacred trees, 177
Sagittarius, 85
Saint George and the dragon, 23, 211
Saint Mary Redcliff, large bone at, 59
Saints as dragon-slayers, 20, 21
Salamander, 60
Sanguis huppæ, 137
Saxo Grammaticus on barnacle tree, 174
Saxon martyrology, 32
Scaliger on basilisk, 49
Scoresby’s “Voyages,” 92
Scot, Reginald, on witchcraft, 103
Scotland and the unicorn, 6
Scott, elf-possession, 113;
friar’s lantern, 123;
wolf, 12
Sketches of Nineveh and Persepolis, 19, 128
Scythian lamb, 71
Sea bishop, 161;
elephant, 72, 145;
hare, 200;
horse, 72;
lion, 160;
monk, 161;
serpent, 48, 141
Selden’s “Titles of Honour,” 32
Sensitive plant, 198
Seraffa of Breydenbach, 63
Shakespeare, basilisk, 48;
cockatrice, 45;
dragon, 39;
fire-drake, 147;
griffin, 70;
harpy, 87;
mandrake, 188;
Pegasus, 73;
phœnix, 53, 218;
pigmies, 126;
will-o’-the-wisp, 123;
unicorn, 217