A Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of Charles Isaac Elton And Mary Augusta
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Georgium Pictorium, Villinganum, con scrip turn : una cum Ejusdem de apibus, cera, melle . . . Breuissima methodo ex optimis authoribus collecta. Prasterea de Daemonum qui sub Lunari collimitio versantur ortu nominibus. . . Isagoge, eodem authore; Quibus accedit Ejusdem de Speciebus Magiae ceremonialis, quam Goetiam vocant, Epitome, Et an Sagae vel mulieres quas expiatrices nominamus cremari debeant, resolutio. Colophon : Basilece, per Henricum Petri^ anno 1563, mense martio. I2mo. The true con...tents appear in the Table on a. 2, the author never having reached the subject of demonology and witchcraft. Under the heading " De Lepore, " at p. 10, there is an interesting collection of hare-superstitions. On pp. 12, 13, is a valuable description of the Urus, or the Bos Primigenius of the German forests, the cups made of its horns, and the uses for the milk of the wild cows : " Lac ventrem solvit : Bezoar lac est. " " Bestia vasta quidem est Urus, sed cornibus uncis Quse nigrum hirsutam et corpus habet faciem.
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