Introduction — “A Description of 300 Animals” — Unicorn — The Bible Unicorn — The Heraldic Unicorn — The Horn as a Poison Test — The Unicorn of MediÆval Legend — Wolf Causing Dumbness — The Rompo or Man-Eater — The Manticora — The Lamia — Stag Antipathies — Dragons — Dragon-Slaying — Legends of the Saints — The “Legenda Aurea” — St. George — MediÆval Recipes — The “Historia Monstrorum” of Aldrovandus — The Dragon in Heraldry — The Dragon of Wantley — Dragons’ Teeth — The Dragonnades — The Dragons of Shakespeare — Guardians of Treasure — The Feud between the Dragon and the Elephant — The “Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume — The Cockatrice — The Basilisk — The Phoenix: Its Literary Existence from Herodotus to Shakespeare — The Dun-Cow of Warwick — Sir Guy, and Percie’s “Reliques of Antient Poetry” — Old Ribs and other Bones in Churches — The Salamander — Breydenbach’s Travels — The “Bestiary” of De Thaun — The Ylio — The Griffin — The Arimaspians — Burton’s “Miracles of Art and Nature” — The Lomie — The Tartarian Vegetable Lamb — The Sea-Elephant — Pegasus — The Vampyre — The Chameleon
The Sphinx — The ChimÆra — The Centaurs — The Origin of the Myth — The Onocentaur — Sagittarius — Satyrs and Fauns — The Harpys, described by Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, and others — The Echidna — The Gorgon — The Hydra — The Sirens — The Lurlei — Mermaids — The Manatee — Dog-Headed Men of Brazil — The One-Eyed Cyclops and BriarÆus of the Hundred Arms — The Headless Men or Anthropophagi — Sir Walter Raleigh’s El Dorado — Claw-Footed Men — The Marvels of Hackluyt and Mandeville — The Long-Eared Fanesii — The Fairies — The “Discoverie of Witchcraft” — The Little Good People — Fairy-Rings — Elf-Music — Changelings — Elf-Possession — Spirits of the Mine, or Knockers — Robin Goodfellow — Queen Mab — The Phoca or Storm-Spirit — The Kelpie — Jack-o’-Lantern — The Pigmies — Giants — Early Sculptures — Gigantic Men of Antiquity
Comparatively Small Number of Mythical Bird-Forms — The Martlet — The Bird of Paradise — The Humma — The Huppe — The Ibis — The Roc — The Hameh Bird — Reptiles, Fish, &c. — The Sea-Serpent — The Adissechen of Hindu Mythology — The Iormungandur of Scandinavian Mythology — The Egg Talisman — Fire-Drake — Aspis — Amphisbena — Kraken — Cetus — Leviathan — Behemoth — Nautilus — Dolphin — The Acipenser — The Remora — The Fish Nun — The Chilon — The Dies — Sea-Bishops and Sea-Monks — Davy Jones and his Locker — Ojibiway Legend of the Great Serpent — Fabledom in the Vegetable Kingdom — The Barnacle Tree — The Kalpa-Tarou — The Lote Tree — The Tree of Life — Lotus-Eating — Amaranth — Lotus Wreaths at Kew from the Egyptian Tombs — Asphodel — MediÆval Herbals — Ambrosia — The Upas Tree — The Umdhlebi Tree of Zululand — The Kerzereh Flower — The Mandrake — “Miracles of Art and Nature” — Travellers’ Tales — The Dead Sea Apple — Alimos — The Meto — The Herb Viva — Cockeram on Herb-Lore — The Pseudodoxia of Dr. Browne — Herb Basil — The “Eikon Basilike” — Fitzherbert’s “Boke of Husbandry”
