Sigonius on basilisk, 49

Sileni Alcibiadis, 226

Sindbad the Sailor, 69, 138

Siren, 14, 89, 224, 229

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

Sphinx, 82, 220

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

Symbolism of phœnix, 50, 55

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

Travellers’ tales, 195, 216

“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

Unicorn, 3, 62, 217, 229

Upas tree, 184

Upton on the harpy, 88

Vampyre, 14, 74

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

Wild boar, 15;
ox, 15

William de Valence, arms of, 134

Will o’ the wisp, 122

Winged serpent, 19

“Wisdom of the Ancients,” Bacon, 219, 224

Witches, 103

Wolf, 11, 30

“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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