Curious Facts
Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.
作者：Cowan, Frank, 1844-1905
体例：段 章数：34
字数：696,478 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 34 段- So it seems that also in Scotland, the Lady-bird, which is s
- The Scarabæus was also connected with astronomical subjects,
- The following quotation is from the Chronicle of Hollingshed
- “How many people have I seen in the most terrible palpitatio
- A large species of longicorn beetles, the _Acanthocinus ædil
- Mr. Evan Evans, a missionary to the Cape of Good Hope, gives
- “Among the choice delicacies with which the California Digge
- In 1816, Captain Riley met with a flight of Locusts in the n
- The Arabs of Morocco, we learn from Mr. Jackson, esteem Locu
- The Caffres, as we are informed by Mr. Latrobe, when first p
- Nearchus says he has himself seen several of the skins of th
- The pupæ or cocoons of the Ants, during the day, are placed
- this would I suppose fit to be spoken in way of jest and sco
- First, in a place, by nature close, they build
- Butler, in his Feminine Monarchie, narrates the following cu
- But strew the _salt_, and say in angry tones,
- Nicoll, in his Diary, p. 8, informs us that on the 28th of M
- In the Isle of France, the natives believe that the dust (sc
- The Antler-moth, _Noctua graminis_, Linn., has been particul
- _Tola_ or _Thola_ was the ancient Phœnician name for this in
- “I’ve known persons to be laid up for months through bug-bit
- I have never heard of mosquitoes being turned to any good ac
- A big lad with a dirty face, and hair like hemp, was the fir
- On the subject of destroying Fleas, the following pleasant p
- To you by Scorpions death the omnipotent
- The Abbé Olivet has described an amusement of Pelisson durin
- The following interesting account of the rarely-witnessed ph
- “The country people have a tradition, that a small quantity
- “I now beg to interpret the signs of the night. If at midnig
- Generation of Fleas, 305;
- Soul, Butterfly symbol of, 228;
- [141] _Phil. Trans. Abridg._, ii. 781-3.
- [612] Paus. _Hist. of Greece_, B. ix. c. xxiii. 3.
- [962] _Lach. Lapp._, ii. 108. _Flor. Lapp._, 380.