1 For a representation of the Egyptian "Phallus" see Plate I., figures 1, 2, and 3. These are taken from the "Recueil d'Antiquites Egyptiennes" by the Comte De Caylus, who, speaking of the first of them, observes: "Cette figure représente le plus terrible Phallus qu'on ait vû, proportion gardée, sur aucun ouvrage. On n'ignore point la vénération que les Egyptiens avaient pour cet emblême, il est vrai; mais je doute que cette nation sage et peu outrée dans sa conduite eût consacré dans les premiers siécles, c'est a dire, avant le régne des Ptolemées, une pareille figure."
2 Historia de los Incas. Cap. VI.
3 In the church of St. Peter's at Rome, is kept, en secret, a large stone emblem of the creative power, of a very peculiar shape, on which are engraved Ζευς Σωτηρ. Only persons who have great interest can get a sight of it. Is it from this stone having some peculiar virtue that those preux chevaliers, the cardinals, keep it so closely? Perhaps they choose to monopolize the use of it? I never saw it, but I know that it was at St Peter's.—Higgins.
4 See Plate II., figure 1. This figure of the Lingham presents a kind of Trinity, the vase represents Vishnu, from the middle of which rises a column rounded at the top representing Siva, and the whole rests upon a pedestal typifying Brahma. From the Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, par M. Sonnerat, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Tom. I., p. 179.
5 Voyage aux Indes et à la Chine., par Sonnerat, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781; Tom. I. liv. 2.
6 See Plate III., figures 1, 2, 3, and 4.
7 Henry O'Brien, Round Towers of Ireland. London, 1834. Chapter viii.
9 Samuel II., chap. vi., v. 20, 21, 22, 23.
10 The indispensable and inseparable appendages to the male organ have thus been eulogized by Giov. Francesco Lazzarelli in his poem entitled, La Cicceide, p. 120.
11 Genesis, chap. xxiv. v. 2, 3.
12 Genesis, chap. xlvii. v. 29.
13 Mémoires sur l'Egypte, publiés pendant les Campagne de Bonaparte, Partie, 2, p. 193.
14 The Latin text of the law is as follows:—"Si mulier stuprata lege cum illo agere velit, membro virili sinistra prehenso et dextra reliquos sanctorum imposita, juret, super illas quod is per vim se, isto membro, vitiaverit."—Voyage dans le Département du Finisterre, Tom. iii., p. 233.
17 From possessing such an article of virtu, his Eminence must surely have been of the opinion of Cardinal Bembo—that there is no sin below the navel.
19 See note (21), p. 11.
20 See S. Augustine, Civ. Dei., lib. 6, cap. 9, and Lactantius De falsa religione. lib. i.
22 Thus his statue was placed in orchards as a scare-crow to drive away superstitious thieves, as well as children and birds.
23 Ind. Antiq. ii., p, 361.
24 Ind. Antiq., vol. I., p. 247.
25 Voyage dans la Chine par Avril, Liv. iii., p. 194.
26 Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol. i., p. 269.
27 Worship of Priapus.
28 Ibid., p 48.
29 For some ingenious and learned observations on the Tau or Crux Ansata see Classical Journal, No. 39, p. 182.
30 Chap. ix., v. 3. "And the Lord said unto him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the forehead of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof."
31 For a description of some of the above-mentioned Crosses, see Plate V., also "Voyage dans la basse et la haute-Egypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte, 1802 et 1829," par Denon—Planches 48, 78.
32 This city was the birth place of the deity Priapus, whose orgies were there constantly celebrated. Alexander the Great, in his Persian expedition, resolved to destroy Lampsacus on account of its many vices, or rather from a jealousy of its adherence to Persia; but it was saved by the artifice of the philosopher Anaxamenes, who, having heard that the king had sworn to refuse whatever he should ask him, begged him to destroy the city.
33 Journal d'Henri III. par l'Etoile. Tom. 5.
34 Historie Religieuse du Calendrier, p. 420.
35 Johannis Goropii Becani, Origines Antwerpianæ, 1569, lib. i., p.p. 26 and 101.
36 The foreskins, still extant, of the Saviour, are reckoned to be twelve in number. One was in the possession of the monks of Coulombs; another at the Abbey of Charroux; a third at Hildesheim, in Germany; a fourth at Rome, in the Church of St. Jean-de-Latran; a fifth at Antwerp; a sixth at Puy-en-Velay, in the Church of Notre Dame, &c., &c. So much for relics!
37 Dulaure, Singularités Historiques de l'Historie de Paris, p. 77. Paris, 1825.
38 Letter of Sir W. Hamilton prefixed to Payne Knight's "Worship of Priapus."
For a representation of the ancient, Ex voto, in silver, the size of the original see Plate VI., figure 1. It is copied from an additional plate inserted by M. Panizzi, late librarian of the British Museum, in the fly-leaf of Payne Knight's "Worship of Phallus."
39 To these the canon law adds sorcery, ligature or point-tying.
40 Zachais, Quæst. medico. leg. lib. II., tit. I, quæst. I.
41 See Lectures on Comparative Anatomy by Sir Everard Home, Bart. Vol. III., p. 166. London 1823.
42 Lib. I., Epigram. 91.
43 Juvenal Sat. I., vv. 204, 105.
44 Orlando Furioso, Can. I, stanz. 49, 60.
45 Rapport, Tom. I., p. 335.
46 Sir Charles Morgan, Philos. of Morals, p. 25.
47 Nosographie philosophique.
48 Medical Essays published by a society in Edinburgh, vol. I., p. 270. Case reported by W. Cockburn, M.D.
49 Rapport, tome II., p. 422.
50 Essays, Book I., chap. xx. Cotton's translation.
51 Hippocrates de Aer: aqua et loco, 210.
52 Treatise on the Venereal Disease.
53 Comment. de Aer: aqua et loco, 210.
54 Voltaire, Pucelle d'Orléans, Chant. xii.
55 Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords.
56 Herodotus Enterpe clxxxii.
57 De Legibus, lib. ii.
58 Ecloga viii.
59 Amor., lib. iii., Eleg. 6.
60 De Asino Aureo, lib. ii., v. 3.
61 Tacitus Annal., lib. iv., 22.
62 Lib. v., Sentent, tit. 23.
63 De rebus gestis Francorum, lib. 4. cap. 94.
64 Histoire des Français.
65 Nominated to the Bishopric of Evreux by Henry IV. of France. His favourite authors were Rabelais and Montaigne.
66 Demonologie, 1603, Book I., Chap. III., p. 12.
67 "Hercules, puer, L. Virgines, una nocte, gravidus reddit."—Cœlius, lib. 14, cap. 8.
68 Traite premier de la dissolution de Mariage pour l'impuissance et froideur de l'homme, ou de la Femme, par Antoine Hotman, p. 63.
69 Tableau de l'Amour considéré dans l'état du Mariage, par II., chap. 2, art. 3.
70 Art Portugal. rem. F.
71 Boileau Despréaux, Satires, Satire VIII.
72 Willick's Lectures on Diet and Regimen, p. 538, et seq.
73 From μανδρα, relating to cattle, and αγαρον, baneful, injurious.
74 Genesis, Chap. xxx., v. 14, 15, 16, 17. The last verse must be considered as decisive of the efficacy of the mandrake.
75 Solomon's Song, chap. vii. v. 13.
76 See the word Dudaïm, in Dr. Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature. The learned doctor has given a sketch of the plant Mandragora, a copy of which the reader will find in plate VI.
77 Onkelos was a celebrated rabbin contemporary with St. Paul, and to whom the Targum, that is, a translation or paraphrase of the Holy Scriptures, is attributed.
78 Lib. IV., cap. 76.
79 Quoted by Oct. Celsius in his "Hierobotanicon," Part I., par. 5. art. Dudaim, from Epiphan: Physiolog. c. 4.
80 Pliny's "Natural History," Vol. IV., p. 397 (Bohn's Classical Library).
81 Columella De hortorum Cultu., v. 19, 20.
82 See a manuscript Interrogatory still preserved in the "Bibliothèque Nationale," Fonds de Baluze, Rouleau 5.
83 See "De l'imposture des Diables," par Jacques Grévin, Tom. IV., p. 359.
84 From Weir "De Mag: demonia:" Cours Complet d'agriculture par l'Abbé Rosier, Tom. VI., p. 401.
85 Récollections des choses merveilleuses Advenues en notre temps par George Chastelain, Edition de Coustelier, p. 150.
86 Lettres d'Amabed, Vol. XXXIV., p. 261. Edition Beuchot, Paris.
87 Mandragola, Atto II. Scena 6. See also La Fontaine's tale of "La Mandragore," founded upon the above comedy.
88 See Warburton on Shakespear's Othello, Act I., Scene 8.
89 See Speed's Historie of Great Britaine. Richard III. Book II., page 913 folio edition, 1632.
90 Exercitatio de Rachelis Deliciis, 4to, 1678.
91 Atlantica illustrata, 1733.
92 Hierobotanicon, 1745.
93 "Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, a.d., 1697."
94 Orchis is a Greek word signifying testicle, a name given by the ancients to this plant on account of the supposed resemblance of its root to that organ.
95 Eustathii Commentarii ad Homerum, Vol. I., p. 325, 403-9. Editio Lipsiæ, 1827.
96 Juliani Calixenæ Epistola.
97 "Amatorio poculo furorem versus, quum aliquot libros per intervalla conscripserat."
98 Epist. dissuas: ad Rufinum C. 22. Tom XII. p. 245, ad Varon.
99 Remarks on the life and poems of Lucretius, p. vi. (Bohn's Classical Library).
100 Probably to Anticyra, a Greek town situated at the mouth of the river Sperchius, and reputed to produce the genuine hellebore, recommended by the ancient physicians as a cure for insanity, whence the well known adage, "Naviget Anticyram."
101 Sueton. Calig. 50.
102 Juvenal. Sat. vi. v. 614.
103 Hor. Epod Lib. Carm. V. 1703. See also the admirable notes of Dacier and Sanadon upon the above ode.
104 Disquisitionum Magicarum, Lib. III. Quæstio III. De Amatorio Malaficio, page 7.
105 Cinq livres de l'imposture et tromperie des diables. Lib. II., p. 216, 1569.
106 De Margarum Daemonomania. Lib. I., Cap. III., p. 27.
107 Æneid, Lib. IV., v. 13, 14, 15, and 16.
108 Pausanias, Græciæ Descriptio, Lib. V., c. 27.
109 In his work "De valetudine tuendâ."
110 Traité universel des drogues simples.
111 The Holy Guide by John Heyden, Gent., φιλόνομος a servant of God and a Secretary of Nature, Lib. v. p. 61.
112 Ibid., p. 62.
113 Anatomy of Melancholy.
114 Essays, Vol. II., p. 262-3. Translated by Cotton. London, 1743.
115 "Cujus rei istud est argumentum, quod ubi rem veneream exercemus, tantillo emisse, imbecilles evadimus."—De Genitura.
116 Tome 52, p. 286, et seq.
117 Juvenal, Sat. 6, v. 302. "Ad venerem," says Lubinus in a note on this passage, "miris modis instigant (i.e., ostreæ), inde turpissimæ illæ bestiæ (feminæ) ostrea comedebant, ut ad Venerem promptiores essent."
118 De la génération de l'homme, p. 272.
119 Traité des dispenses et de Carême, Paris, 1709, en 12mo, réimprimé trois fois.
120 Names given to the female slaves or concubines in the harem of the Sultan.
121 A large province of the Deccan, said to have been famous, in ancient times, for its diamond mines.
122 That Coryphæus of voluptuaries, George IV., so highly appreciated this quality in truffles, that his Ministers at the courts of Turin, Naples, Florence, &c., were specially instructed to forward by a state messenger to the Royal Kitchen any of those fungi that might be found superior in size, delicacy or flavour.
123 Physiologie du Gout, par Brillat Savarin, Paris, 1859.
124 Martial, Epigram, lib. xiii. epig. 34.
125 Ducange, Glossaire.
126 J. H. Meibomius de flagrorum usu in Re medica et Venerea, Paris, 1792, p. 125.
127 See Macaronéana, par M. Octave Delepierre, Paris, 1852, p. 3.
128 Thevet, Portraits des Vies des Hommes Illustres, Vol. I., p. 13, fol. edit., Paris, 1584.
129 Hume's Hist. of England, Vol. I., p. 348.
130 Dissertatio Inauguralis de Ambra, § iv. p. 36.
131 Medicamentum quod non solum potenter stimulat, sed vel effœtum senem, pro brevi tempore, ad juventutem iterum restituit. Ibid. § viii., p. 44.
132 Née dans une condition obscure, vouée au libertinage dés sa plus tendre jeunesse, autant par goût que par état, Made. Du Barry ne put offrir à son auguste amant, malgré la fleur de la jeunesse et les brillants appas dont elle étoit encore pourvue, que les restes de la plus vile canaille, de la prostitution." Vie privée des maîtresses de Louis XV., p. 153.—"You are no doubt curious to hear an opinion of Madame Du Barri's beauty from the lips of one who has seen her both in her days of prosperity and after her downfall. She was a person of small, almost diminutive stature, extremely frail and delicate in feature, which saved her from being vulgar; but even from the first, she always wore that peculiarly fane look which she owed to a youth of dissipation, a maturity of unbounded indulgence. At the period of my visit she was about thirty-six years of age, but, from her child-like form and delicacy of countenance, appeared much younger, and her gambades and unrestrained gestures of supreme delight on having, as she said, quelqu'un à qui parler, did not seem displaced. Although alone, and evidently not in expectation of visitors, her toilet was brilliant and recherché, the result of the necessity of killing time."—"Talleyrand Papers."
133 Espion de la Cour.
134 Gazetier Cuirassé, ou Anecdotes Scandaleuses de la Cour de France.
135 In his "Praxis Medica Admiranda," wherein he also gives the formula of an electuary ad excitandum tentiginem nulli secundum, p, 295, Observ. XCI., as well as a recipe for pills ad Coitûs ignaviam, CXIII., p. 297.
136 Encyclopœdia Perthensis, Article Cachunde.
137 See his Premier Traité de l'homme et de son essentielle anatomie, avec les éléments et ce qui est en eux, de ses maladies, médicine et absolus remèdes, etc., Paris, 1588.
138 Cent. 2.
139 See Celius, lib. xiv., cap. 3.
140 Histoire de Ferdinand et Isabelle, Tom. II., 326. Paris, 1766.
141 Biographie Universelle, Art. Wallenstein.
142 Detested by the Parisians, Dubois was the object of innumerable caricatures, of which the most sanglante was one representing him "à genoux aux pieds d'une fille de joie qui prenait de ce sale écoulement qui afflige les femmes, tous les mois, pour lui en rougir sa calotte et le faire Cardinal." See Erotika Biblion. Paris, 1792, p. 52.
143 Mémoires du Cardinal Dubois, vol. I., p. 3.
144 Ælius Tetrabilis, I., Disc. Chap. 32 and 33.