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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. — Frank Cowan

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.

Frank Cowan

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 502 pages

The 1865 essay collection Curious Facts in the History of Insects, Including Spiders and Scorpions by Frank Cowan gathers legends, superstitions, beliefs and ominous signs connected with insects, along with their uses in medicine, art and food. It also notes remarkable injuries and appearances, making it a historical cabinet of entomological curiosities and folklore worth listening to.

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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.
BY
FRANK COWAN.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1865.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of

Pennsylvania.

TO

MISS CATHARINE STOY

THE FOLLOWING PAGES

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY HER FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

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Contents

  1. CURIOUS FACTS IN THE HISTORY OF INSECTS; INCLUDING SPIDERS AND SCORPIONS.
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. AUTHORS QUOTED.
  5. ORDER I. COLEOPTERA—BEETLES.
  6. ORDER II. EUPLEXOPTERA.
  7. ORDER III. ORTHOPTERA.
  8. ORDER IV. NEUROPTERA.
  9. ORDER V. HYMENOPTERA.
  10. ORDER VI. LEPIDOPTERA.
  11. ORDER VII. HOMOPTERA.
  12. ORDER VIII. HETEROPTERA.
  13. ORDER IX. DIPTERA.
  14. ORDER X. APHANIPTERA.
  15. ORDER XI. ANOPLEURA.
  16. ORDER XII. ARACHNIDA.1083
  17. MISCELLANEOUS.
  18. INDEX.
  19. FOOTNOTES.
  20. ERRATA.
  21. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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