Sigonius on basilisk, 49
Sileni Alcibiadis, 226
Sirena, 18
Sirenia, 92
Sir Walter Raleigh and Guiana, 95
“Sketches of Perthshire,” 121
Skimker, Mistress, 92
Sloane Library, 218
Smollett’s “Peregrine Pickle,” 162
Solinus on basilisk, 49
Sourd story from the Field, 65
South Kensington Museum, 184
Sowing of dragon’s teeth, 38
Spenser’s “Visions of the World’s Vanity,” 159
Spirits of the mine, 117
“Spleen,” Matthew Green, 132
Squier’s “Serpent Worship,” 163
Stag, 14
Standard of Bartolomeo d’Alviano, 6
Staple Hill stone ring, 58
Star as mark of cadency, 232
Stephen, arms of King, 85
“Stirpium Adversaria Nova,” 175
Strabo on pigmies, 125
Stronsay, sea monster at, 146
Struy’s Voyages, 219
Stuttgard anthropophagi, 98
Suchenwirt on battle-cries, 32
Supporters of the Royal Arms, 4, 6
Surinam, clawed men of, 97
Sylene and its dragon, 22
Sylphs, 119
Sylvester’s “Corona Dedicatoria,” 53
Symbol, dragon as a, 28;
stag as a, 15
Tacitus, Dead Sea apples, 196;
phœnix, 55
Tailed men, 93
Talmud, legends of the, 152, 159
“Taming of the Shrew,” 73
Tartarian lamb, 71
Tartaros and Ge, rebellion of, 131
Tasso’s “Jerusalem Delivered,” 99
Tausend-gulden-kraut, 224
Tavernier on birds of paradise, 135
Taylor’s “Reminiscences,” 145
“Tempest,” fairy-rings, 108;
harpy, 87;
phœnix, 218;
unicorn, 218
Templars, device of the, 74
Tennant’s “Ceylon,” 127
Tertullian on phœnix, 50
“Theater of Plants,” Parkinson, 172, 190
“Theatrum Botanicum,” 180
Thebes, founding of, by Kadmos, 38
Theocritus, on wolf, 11
Theseum at Athens, 224
Thevet on unicorn, 9
“Three hundred animals,” 2, 44
Throne of Tippoo Sultan, 136
“Titles of Honour,” Selden, 32
“Toilers of the Sea,” Victor Hugo, 150
Tomb of Bolyai, 197
“Travels,” Breydenbach, 62
Tree of Life, 176
Tree of the Imagination, 176
Trichrug, the giant’s chair, 130
Tritons, 90
“Troilus and Cressida,” 39
Tsi-hiai and the pheg, 152
Tuacua, unicorns of, 231
Turner, barnacle geese, 175;
herbal, 182
“Twelfth Night,” 45
Typhon, 20
“Uganda and the Eastern Soudan,” 7
Ulysses and Polyphemus, 99
Umdhlebi tree, 187
Upas tree, 184
Upton on the harpy, 88
Vartomannus on unicorn, 9
Vatican Library, 218
Vegetable lamb, 71
“Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” 188
Venetus, Paulus, on unicorn, 9
Veran, St., dragon-slayer, 20
“Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon,” of Bruynswyke, 182
Victor Hugo, “Toilers of the Sea,” 150
Victor, St., dragon-slayer, 20
Virgil, centaur, 84;
evil eye, 47;
harpy, 88;
wolf, 11
Virtuosi, discoveries of, 10
Vishnu, 20
“Visions of the World’s Vanity,” Spenser, 159
Viva, herb, 198
Voraigne’s “Legenda Aurea,” 22
“Voyages,” Hackluyt, 97;
Raleigh, 95;
Scoresby, 92;
Struy, 219
Vulcan and the Cyclops, 99
“Vulgar Errors,” Sir Thomas Browne, 31, 69
Wantley, dragon of, 33
“Warwickshire” of Dugdale, 55
Water fairies, 102
Waterton on vampyre bat, 76
Weasel and cockatrice combat, 45
Wehr-wolf or loup-garou, 75
Wexel balg, 229
Whale bones in churches, 60
White Horse Hill, Berkshire, 33
William de Valence, arms of, 134
Will o’ the wisp, 122
Winged serpent, 19
“Wisdom of the Ancients,” Bacon, 219, 224
Witches, 103
“Woman Hater,” Beaumont and Fletcher, 48
Wright on De Thaun, 218
Wynkyn de Worde, 22
Xanthus, monument from, 87
Ylio of De Thaun, 68
Young’s “Night Thoughts,” 126
Zeus, ambrosial locks of, 184;
rebellion against, 131
Zodiac, the Sagittarius, 85
Zululand, poisonous trees in, 187
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