Chapter I

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
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CHAPTER II.

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
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