  “So essential did I consider an Index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive an author, who publishes a book without an Index, of the privilege of copyright, and, moreover, to subject him to a pecuniary penalty.”—Campbell’s Lives of the Chief-Justices of England. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z “Absalom and Achitophel,” Dryden, 126 “Abyssinia, Life in,” Parkyns, 14 Achemedis, herb, 199 Acipenser, 158 Acosta, “Natvrall and Morall Historie,” 219 Adam, earliest botanist, 181 Addison’s “Milton Imitated,” 99 Adelaide of Louvain, 218 Adissechen, the thousand-headed, 146 Adolf Dux, article by, 197 Ælian on aspis, 147; Æneas Sylvius on barnacle tree, 174 Ætius on basilisk, 49; “Africa, History of,” Leo, 30 Agnus Dei, as a badge, 74 Alaus Magnus on kraken, 150 Albertus Magnus, “De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 234; Alchemists and phoenix, 54 Aldrovandus, “Monstrorum Historia,” 31, 79, 87, 161 Alimos plant, 197 Amaranth, 177 Amazons, 95 Ambrosia, 183 Amphisbena, 148 Anacramseros plant, 199 Andromeda and Perseus, 19 Annulet as mark of cadency, 232 Anthropophagi, 94 Antipathy between dragon and elephant, 42; Apples of Hesperides, 40; Apollo Epicurius, temple of, 222 Apuleius, “The Golden Ass,” 184 Arabia, home of the phoenix, 50 “Arabian Nights,” 7, 40, 69, 132, 140, 196 Archaic pottery, British Museum, 85 Ardoynus on basilisk, 49 Arian v. Athanasian, 209 Arimaspian gold, 69 Arimaspians, 98 Arion and the dolphins, 158 Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso,” 50, 70 Aristotle on chameleon, 77; Arms of City of London, 70; Arrowheads or Celts, 108 “Art of Love,” King’s, 49 Asbestos, 61 Asphodel, 180 Aspis, 147 Assembly of Beaux Esprits, Paris, 10 Ass, Indian, of Ctesias, 7 “Atlas Geographicus,” 231 Aubrey’s “Gentilisme and Judaisme,” 31, 227 Augustine, St., on the manipulation of facts, 216; Avebury stones, 58 Avicen on basilisk, 49
Badge of Jane Seymour, 53 Balam, the ox, 159 Ballad of dragon of Wantley, 33; “Bara Bathra,” 151 Basil, herb, 200 Basilisk, king of serpents, 48, 91 Barliata, 175 Barnacle goose-tree, 168 Bartolomeo, standard of, 6 Basking shark, 146 Bay tree, 234 Beaumont and Fletcher’s “Woman Hater,” 48 Beaux Esprits, assembly of, 10 Behemoth legend, 152 Ben Jonson on remora, 159 “Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume, 43 Bestiary of De Thaun, 67, 147, 218 Bewick’s books, 2 Bible Herbal of Newton, 183 Bible references to adder, 67; Bird of paradise, 135 Blemmyes, headless men, 97 Boiastuau, “Histoires Prodigeuses,” 224 “Boke of Husbandry,” Fitzherbert, 204 Bolyai, tomb of, 197 Bones preserved in churches, 59 Borghese centaur, 85 Borrowing from the fairies, 228 Boussetti on monsters, 161 Brathwait’s “Nature’s Embassie,” 224 Breydenbach’s Travels, 62 Bristol, great bone at, 59 “Britannia,” Camden, 217 “Britannica Concha Anatifera,” 175 British Museum, centaur, 85, 222; Brobdingnag, men of, 99 Browne’s “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 199; Brownie, 119 Bruce on the horned viper, 232 Bruynswyke’s Herbal, 182 Bryony roots carved into human form, 190 Bucca, 121 Buckland’s “Curiosities of Natural History,” 60 Buffalo, 12 Burton’s “Miracles of Art and Nature,” 4, 71, 93, 153, 194 Bury Palliser’s “Historic Badges,” 6 Bushmen, the modern pigmies, 127 Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,157, 196; Cader Idris, the giant’s seat, 131 Cadwallader, ensign of, 33 Caerleon, great bone at, 59 Camden’s “Britannia,” 217 “Canterbury Tales,” 104 Capitoline Museum sculptures, 222 Cassandra’s gift, 163 Catacombs of Rome, 5 Cathay and the vegetable lamb, 71 Catoblepas of Pliny, 49 Caxton and the “Legenda Aurea,” 22 Cedric the Victorious, 33 Celtic pen-dragon, 33 Celts or arrow-heads, 108 Centaur, 84 Cerastes or horned viper, 232 Cetus of De Thaun, 151 “Ceylon,” Tennant, 127 Changeful colours of dolphin, 157 Changelings, 110 Chang, the Chinese giant, 130 Chaplets in Egyptian tombs, 178 Charles II., dedication to, 47 Chaucer on Sir Guy of Warwick, 56 Chesterfield, great bone at, 59 “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Byron, 157, 196 Chilon, 160 China, the dragon symbol, 27 Chiron the Centaur, 222 “Chronicles,” Holingshead, 113 City of London, arms of, 70 Clawed men of Surinam, 97 Clement of Alexandria, 177 Clusius, “Rariorum Plantarum Historia,” 181 Coca leaf, 195 Cockatrice, 44 Cockeram’s “English Dictionary,” 198 Coinage, the unicorn, 6 Colebrand the champion, 55 Coleridge on giants, 132 Comptes Royaux of France, 6 “Comus,” Milton, 119 “Coriolanus,” 40 “Corona Dedicatoria” of Sylvester, 53 “Cosmography” of Munster, 173 Cotter, the Irish giant, 130 Cottonian MSS., 218 Coventry, great bone at, 58 Crane and pigmy combats, 125 Crescent as a mark of cadency, 232 Crest of Earl Douglas, 64 Crocodile, reference in Job, 154 Ctesias on griffin, 68; Cupid and Psyche, 184 “Curiosities of Natural History,” Buckland, 60 Cuttle fish, 150 Cwm Pwcca, Brecon, 122 Cyoeraeth, 121 Danby, picture by, 184 Dart, 44 Darwin on vampyre bat, 76 Davy Jones’s locker, 161 Dead as a door nail, 124 Dead Sea apples, 196 De Bry’s “India Orientalis,” 185 Decker on the unicorn, 6 “Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” 22, 209 De Ferry and sea-serpent, 144 Democritus on chameleon, 78 “Description Historique de MacaÇar,” 186 “Description of 300 Animals,” 2, 44 De Thaun, 8, 67, 136, 147, 151, 191, 218 Device of Francis I., 61; Devil fish, 150 Devil’s candle, 193 “De Virtutibus Herbarum,” 234 Diamond softening, 199 Dies, 160 Diocletian the persecutor, 25 Dioscorides on basilisk, 49 Discourses of Virtuosi of France, 10 “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 103 “Display of Heraldry,” Guillim, 7 Dodoens, Herbal of, 182 Dolphin, 156 Donatus, St., dragon-slayer, 20 Dragon, 2, 16, 133, 192, 211, 229 Dragonhill, Berkshire, 33 Dragonnades, 39 Dragon overthrown, knighthood of, 27 Druids and fairies, 102 Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 126; Dryinus of Ætius, 49 Dudaim, 193 Dugdale on Guy of Warwick, 55 Dugong and Manatee, 91 Du Mont and the dragon of Rhodes, 231 Dun cow legend, 55 Eagney or Meto, 197 Earl Douglas, crest of, 64 Eastern Soudan and Uganda, 7 Echeneis or Remora, 158 Eden’s “Historie of Travayle,” 94 Egede and the sea-serpent, 144 Egg-talisman, 147 Egyptian form of sphinx, 82; Egyptian representations of giraffe, 63 Eikon Basilike, 202 El Dorado and Sir W. Raleigh, 95 Elephant, 15, 79; Elf-bolts, 109 Elizabeth, Queen, badge of, 53 El Kazwini, Arab writer, 7 “Elysium,” Felicia Hemans’, 177 Empusa, 14 Enchanter’s nightshade, 193 “English CyclopÆdia of Natural History,” 7 “English Dictionary” of Cockeram, 198 “English Parnassus” of Poole, 103, 120 Enmity between stag and serpent, 15 Epitaph on Gryphius, 70 Erasmus on headless men, 97; Ethiopia, unicorns in, 4 Exodus, reference to unicorn in, 5 Fairy rings, 104 Falstaff, on fairies, 110; Fanesii of Scandinavia, 98 Father Pigafetta on dragons, 30 Fauns and satyrs, 86 Featley’s recantation, 31 Felicia Hemans’ “Elysium,” 177 Ferrer de Valcebro on the Barliata, 175 Ferry, Laurent de, on sea-serpent, 144 Field, extract from, 65 Field of the cloth of gold, 61 Fire-drake, 147 “Fire-worshippers,” Moore, 193 Fish nun, 159 Fitzherbert’s “Boke of Husbandry,” 204 Fletcher’s “Purple Island,” 51 Fleur-de-lys as mark of cadency, 232 “Flower and the Leaf,” Dryden, 227 Foersch on upas tree, 185 Forty-leaved plant, 197 Four-footed serpents, 71 Francisci Boussetti on sea-monsters, 161 Friar’s lantern, 123 Fuller’s “Holy State,” 132
Garcias ab Horto, on unicorn, 9 Gargoyles of draconic form, 28 Ge and Tartaros, rebellion of, 131 Gelasius, Pope, and St. George, 210 Gelotaphilois, herb, 199 Generation of the cockatrice, 44 “Gentilisme and Judaisme” of Aubrey, 31 “Gentleman’s Magazine,” extract from, 117 Geography of Strabo, 125 George, St., and dragon, 23, 31, 209-211 “Gerania” of Joshua Barnes, 127 Gerarde, “History of Plants,” 168, 180; Gervaise, “Description de MacaÇar,” 186 Gervase, on fairies, 102 Ghoul, 75 Giant Colebrand, 55 Giants, 128 Giants’ Causeway, 130 Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of Roman Empire,” 22, 209 Gillius the compassionate, 156 Giraffe or seraffa, 63 Giraldus Cambrensis on barnacle trees, 175 Glanvil, on griffin, 68; Gnomes, 119 Godes-andsacan, 20 “Golden Ass” of Apuleius, 184 Golden fruit of the Hesperides, 40 Graham’s “Sketches of Perthshire,” 121 Greek form of sphinx, 82 Greene on the apples of the Hesperides, 40 Green, Matthew, “The Spleen,” 132 Grevinus on basilisk, 49 Groats from Fairyland, 109, 120, 228 Gryphius, device of, 70 Guerino, Meschino, 98 Guild processions in Middle Ages, 86 Guiana, Hartsinck on, 97; Guillaume, “Bestiare Divin,” 43 Guillim, “Display of Heraldry,” 7, 41, 46, 88, 134 “Gulliver’s Travels,” 132 Guy of Warwick and the Dun Cow, 55, 217 Halliwell on anthropophagi, 94 Hameh-bird, 140 “Hamlet,” satyr, 86 “Handmayd to Religion,” 31 Harrington and the sea-serpent, 142 Hartsinck on Guiana, 97 Headless men, 94 Hemans, Felicia, poem by, 177 Heraldic bird-forms, 134; “Herball to the Bible” of Newton, 189 Herbert’s “Jacula Prudentum,” 132; Herb Viva, 198 Hercules and the pigmies, 126 Heraldic cockatrice, 46; “Heraldry, display of,” by Guillim, 7, 41, 46 Herodotus, griffin, 69; Hesiod, chimÆra, 84; Hesperides, garden of the, 40 Heylin on St. George, 31 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; 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 Idolatrous groves, 177 Ignis fatuus, 122 Indian ass, 7; “India Orientals,” of De Bry, 185 Invisibility of fairies, 103 Iormungandur the encircler, 146 Isaiah, reference to cockatrice, 46 Isidore on onocentaur, 85 Jack the Giant-killer, 128 “Jacula Prudentum,” by Herbert, 132 Jane Seymour, badge of, 53 Java and its upas trees, 184 Jeremiah, cockatrice, 46; “Jerusalem Delivered,” Tasso, 99 Job, leviathan, 152; 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 Kalli Naga, 20 Kalpa Tarou tree, 176 Kerzereh flowers, 188 Kew, lotus chaplets at, 179, 233; Keymis on Guiana, 96 “King Henry IV.,” 74, 112, 123, 190 “King Lear,” 39 “King’s Art of Love,” 49 Knockers, 117 Kobold, 119 Koempfer on upas tree, 186 Koran, the fish nun, 159; Kraken, 149 Kuchlein’s illustrations, 98 Kyonjik sculptures, 177 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 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 “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; 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; 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; “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; “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; 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 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 Oberon, 103 Octavianus the reliable, 175 Odysseus, the Lotophagi, 177; 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; 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; Owen, Professor, on sea-serpents, 145 Ox Balam, the, 159 Ox, wild, 15 Oyle of castor, 153 Pan, 124 Paracelsus on the phoenix, 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 Phoenix-tree, 217 Pigafetta on dragons, 30 Pigmies, 124 Pink centaury, 85 Pliny on basilisk, 48; 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; Poole’s “English Parnassus,” 103 Pope, nautilus, 155; 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; “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 199 Puck, 102 Purchas Pilgrimage, 219 “Purple Island” of Fletcher, 51 Python, 20 Quentin Durward, Scott, 12 Ram-headed fish, 160 “Rape of the Lock,” 119; “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 Remora, 158 Resurrection, phoenix type of, 50 Rhinoceros horn cups, 7 Rhodes, dragon of, 231 Ribbon fish, 145 Richardson on phoenix, 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 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; Sketches of Nineveh and Persepolis, 19, 128 Scythian lamb, 71 Sea bishop, 161; Selden’s “Titles of Honour,” 32 Sensitive plant, 198 Seraffa of Breydenbach, 63 Shakespeare, basilisk, 48; 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;
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; Templars, device of the, 74 Tennant’s “Ceylon,” 127 Tertullian on phoenix, 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 “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; “Twelfth Night,” 45 Typhon, 20 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; 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; Vulcan and the Cyclops, 99 “Vulgar Errors,” Sir Thomas Browne, 31, 69 “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 Young’s “Night Thoughts,” 126
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