Abbott, Rev. Lyman, regards bad impulses as suggestions of evil spirits, 76
Achan, his severe punishment by Joshua, 180
Addosio, Carlo d’, his Bestie Delinquenti cited, 1, 4;
his list of animal prosecutions, 135;
on pigs as a public nuisance in Italy, 159
Æschines, cited, 172
Æschylus, his Choephoroi cited, 174
Ahuramazda, 57, 61, 82, 176
Alard, Jean, burned alive as a Sodomite for coition with a Jewess, 153
Altiat, his poem quoted, 93
Amira, Prof. Karl von, his Thierstrafen und Thierprocesse cited, 1-3, 137
Anathemas, only effective when formally complete, as with all incantations and excommunications, 4, 36;
citations from the Bible in proof of their power, 25;
render an orchard barren and expel eels and blood-suckers from Lake Leman, 27;
turn white bread black to punish heresy, 28;
fatal to swallows and flies, which disturb religious services, 28, 29;
sold by the Pope, 30;
hurled against noxious vermin, 37;
made more effective by the prompt payment of tithes, 37;
differ from excommunications, 51-54;
superseded in Protestantism by prayer and fasting and in science by Paris green, 53
Animals, prosecuted by civil and ecclesiastical courts, 2;
office of the Church in repressing articulate and rodent, 3, 5;
as satellites of Satan or agents of God, 5, 6, 52-57, 67;
personification of, 10, 11;
their competency as witnesses, 11;
origin of their judicial prosecution, 12;
as born criminals, 14;
tendency of modern penology to efface the distinction between men and, 14, 193;
instances of their criminal prosecution, 16, 18, 21, 37-50, 93-124, 134-157, 160-163;
methods of procedure against, 31;
whether legally laity or clergy, 32;
punitive and preventive prosecution of, 33;
their consciousness of right and wrong, 35, 247;
false conception of the purpose of their prosecution, 40;
can be anathematized, but not excommunicated, 51;
items of expense in prosecuting, 49, 138, 140-143;
not mere machines, 66;
in folk-lore, 84;
worship of, 85;
imperfect lists of prosecuted, 135-137;
burned and buried alive, 138;
put to the rack to extort confession, 139;
confiscation of valuable, 164, 189;
unclean flesh of executed, 169;
imputed criminality of, 177;
criminals as ferocious, 212;
mental and moral qualities of men and, 234;
six categories of their criminal offences, 235;
the safety of society the supreme law in the judicial punishment of men and, 247-252
Anatolus, his “Geoponics,” 133
Angel, Emile, cited, 124
Anglo-Saxon law, its retributive character, 168;
its cruel doctrine of accessories, 178;
on tainted swords, 187
Angrô-mainyush, 57, 59, 61, 82
Anthony, St., patron of pigs, 158
Anthropologists, criminal researches of 211, 215
Aquinas. See Thomas
Arcadius, his atrocious edict, 179
Ashes, modern and mediæval use of vermifugal, 53
Augustine, St., cited, 94, 106
Aura corrumpens in houses and stalls, 8
Aurelian, Father, on diabolical possession, 75
Avesta, on exorcisms, 36;
on good and evil creations, 57;
on mad dogs, 176
Ayrault, Pierre, his protest against animal prosecutions, 109
Azpilcueta, Martin. See Dr. Navarre.
Baal-zebub (Beelzebub), fly-god, 84;
his preference for black beasts, 165
Bailly, Gaspard, his Traité des Monitoires cited, 52, 92-108
“Basilisk-egg,” 10
Basilius, St., his insect-expelling girdle, 136
Basilovitch, Ivan, his conception of retributive justice, 183
Bassos, Kassianos, prefers rat-bane to adjuration, 132
Beasts, sweet and stenchy, 55
Bees, tainted honey of homicidal, 9
Bell, banished to Siberia by the Russian Government, 175
Benedikt Prof., on the brain-formation of criminals, 212
Bernard, Claude, his idea of the physiologist, 245
Bernard, St., kills flies by cursing them, 28
Bernardes, Manoel, his Nova Floresta, 124
Berriat-Saint-Prix, his valuable researches, 2, 17, 20;
list of prosecuted animals, 135-137
Bichat, his defective cranium, 217
Bischofberger, Dr. Theobald, his curious theory of the effects of unexpiated crime on persons and property, 6-8;
his recent brochure in defence of exorcisms, 73
Bischoff, Prof., his hobby refuted by the weight of his own brain, 218
Blackstone, on deodands, 186, 189, 192
Blood-letting, as a panacea in law and medicine, 194
“Blue Laws,” an advance in penal legislation, 209
Bodelschwingh, his bacillus infernalis, 91
Boehme, Jacob, his definition of magic, 127
Boër, Nicolaus, on cohabitation with a Jewess as sodomy, 153
Bogos, homicidal beasts executed by the, 155
Bonnivard, François, presides as judge in a trial of vermin, 38
Borromeo, Carlo, his cruelty in punishing heresy, 208
Bougeant, Père, his Amusement Philosophique cited, 66-69;
80-86, 88-90, 92
Bracton, 167;
on deodands, 186
Brain, its size not always a measure of mental capacity, 217-219
Browne, Dr. William Hand, cited, 187
Buggery, instances of this “nameless crime,” 147-153;
she-ass acquitted and man condemned to death for, 150;
in the Carolina punished with death by fire, 151;
in the Mosaic law, 152;
sexual intercourse with a Jewess regarded as, 153
Bull, executed for murder, 161
Calvin, his conception of God, 59
Canute, King, 178
Carolina, the, its severe penalties, 182
Carpzov, Benedict, on sodomy, 151
Cattle, bewitched by bad air, 8
Cervantes, 167
Character, factors in the formation of, 219;
responsibility for, 239, 243
Charcot, Dr., on the curative power of faith, 80, 225
Chassenée, Bartholomew, his Consilia, 2, 21-23;
distinguished as a defender of prosecuted rats, 18;
equal rights of rats and Waldenses recognized by, 20;
his erudition, 24;
his absurd deductions, 26;
regards animals as laity in the eye of the law, 32
Chinese, recent beheading of idols for murder, 174
Church, the, its treatment of noxious insects as incarnations of Satan and as agents of God, 3-6;
capital punishment never inflicted by, 31;
its power to stay the ravages of vermin unquestioned, 50
Cicero, cited, 22, 101;
his approval of atrocious penalties, 178
Cock, burned at the stake for laying eggs, 10, 11, 162;
nature and origin of its supposed eggs, 163-5
Cockatrice, 12, 163
Coleridge, his definition of madman, 228
Corpses, prosecuted and executed, 110, 198, 199;
cannot inherit, 110
“Corruption of blood,” in theology and law, 181
Courcelle-Seneuil, his view of prisons, 212
Cows, executed for homicide, 169
Cranks, execution of, 249-251
Cretella, 17
Cretins, their brains not always abnormal, 219;
sentenced to death, 251
Criminality, examples of imputed, 177-185;
ancient and mediæval conceptions of, 200;
punished for the safety of society, 211, 248;
compared to vitriol, 212;
supposed physical indices of, 213-217;
casual and constitutional, 214-223;
ativism the source of, 212, 215;
the result of hypnotism, 223-225;
due to many uncontrollable conditions, 230;
motives underlying animal, 235;
animals conscious of, 247;
contagiousness of, 252, 256
Crollanza, his record of the prosecution of caterpillars, 122
Crosiers, vermifugal efficacy of, 30
Cybele, invoked against vermin, 133
Damhouder, Jacobus, picture of animal crimes in his Rerum Criminalium Praxis, 16;
citations from this work, 109, 146;
regards sexual intercourse with Jews, Turks, and Saracens as sodomy, 153
Dasturs, Parsi, Zarathushtra’s teachings degraded by the, 59
Demosthenes, cited, 172
Deodands, nature of, 186-190, 192;
abolished in England under Queen Victoria, 192
Devils, their damage to landed property, 7;
multiplied by the spread of Christianity, 13, 80;
destined to eternal torments after the Last Judgment, 68-70;
incarnate in every babe, 70;
maladies produced by, 72;
modern inventions the devices of, 229
Didymos, his “Geoponics,” 133
Dimitri, Prince, bell banished to Siberia for rejoicing over his assassination, 175
Dogs, trial and execution of mad, 176;
crucified in Rome for imputed crime, 177
Döpler, Jacob, on sodomy, 152;
on Lex talionis, 182;
on vampires, 197
Dove, symbol of the Holy Ghost, 57
Draco (Drakôn), his law punishing weapons, 172
Dreyfus, his prosecution instigated by a sensational novel, 253-255
Ducol, Pierre, prosecutor of weevils, 38
Dumas, his Count of Monte Christo cited, 240
Duret, Jean, his Treatise on Pains and Penalties, 108
Ecclesiastical tribunal, an, rejects the Mosaic law and discusses crime from a psychiatrical point of view, 170
Eldrad, St., expels serpents, 50
Electricity, execution by, 210
Elk, as demon, 90
Erechtheus, punishment of deadly weapons, 172
Erinnys, appeasing the, 174
Escheat, in Scotch law, 189
Eusebius, describes hell as very cold, 105
Eustace, St., 56
Evolution, dogma of original sin supplanted by the doctrine of, 232
Excommunications, pronounced against insects by the Church, 3;
sold at Rome, 30;
properly speaking, animals not subject to, 51, 100;
comical survivals of, 128.
See Anathemas
Exorcisms, their efficiency recognized by Heidelberg professors, 27;
applied as plasters, 72;
superseded by conjurations among Protestants, 125;
by Mohammedans, 137
Falcon, Pierre, defender of weevils, 38
Felo de se, a sort of treason, 190.
See Suicide
Feuchtersleben, Baron Von, records cases of morbid imitation, 253
Field-mice, conjuration of, 133
Flesh of executed animals tainted, 169
Flies as demons, 28, 86
Florian, St., the protector of houses from fire, 136
Fly-flaps, papal, 29
Formosus, Pope, his corpse tried and condemned for usurpation, 198
Foscolo, Ugo, his cranium that of an idiot, 218
Fox, diabolical nature of the, 56
Frederic the Great, his penal reforms, 207
Fricker, Thüring, doctor of laws, chancellor and prosecutor of inger, 116
Gadflies, episcopal rescript against, 124
Galton, on heredity, 239
Gambetta, his small and abnormal brain, 217
Geese, sacred, rewarded at Rome for the vigilance of their foremothers, 177
Genius, to madness close allied, 228
Görres, recent case of conjuration recorded by, 125
Gratiolet, on the brain of the “Hottentot Venus,” 218
Greeks, ancient, ascribed pestilence to the miasma of unexpiated murder, 9, 174
Gregory of Tours, on bronze dormice and serpents as talismans, 132
Greysser, Daniel, the efficiency of bans not supernatural, 128
Gross, his mis-statement concerning the cock of Bâle, 162
Guiteau, deterrent effect of his execution, 250
Harpokration, Valerius, cited, 172
Harrison, Miss, cited, 187
Hart, symbolism of the, 56
Hawks, dead, as protectors of hens, 252
Hemmerlein, Felix. See Malleolus
Hens, crowing, 10
Heredity, its predetermining influence as viewed by theologians and scientists, 232
Heymanns, Mynheer, on responsibility for character, 243
Hierarchies, their failure in civil government, 249
Honorius, his atrocious edict, 179
Horses, condemned to death for homicide, 162
Hubert, St., 56
Hugon, St., expels venom from serpents by excommunication, 103
Hunters among savages, their superstitious fear of killing wild animals, 174
Hypnotism, its causal relation to crime, 223-226;
as the basis of the witchcraft delusion, 225
Idols, decapitation of, 174
Inger, prosecuted and put under ban, 113-115;
not in Noah’s Ark, 120
Insanity, degrees of, 200-203;
in Italian and German law, 204-206;
difficulty of defining, 226-228;
in English law, 246;
moral, 250;
as a shelter for crime, 256
Insects, prosecution of, 37, 41-49;
incarnations of demons, 86
Italy, palliation of crime in, 203, 204
Jeanneret, Marie, her toxicomania, 240-246
Jews, in Christian legislation on a par with beasts, 152, 165
John the Lamb, his curse fatal to fish, 28
Jonson, Ben, cited, 130
Jordan, Father, casts out devils with Lourdes water in 1887, 74
Jörgensen, cited, 17
Joshua, his penal cruelty, 180
King Mode, his discourse with Queen Reason, 55
Kirchenheim, Prof. Von, urges reform of our penal codes, 219
Koran, the, on the punishment of beasts, 171
Kukis, destroy homicidal trees, 171
Laas, his definition of judicial punishment, 238
Lacassagne, his six categories of crime, 235
Langevin, Pierre Gilles, fresco of the execution of a sow described by, 141
Lapeyronie, his dissertation proving that cocks never lay eggs, 163
Le Bon, on hereditary criminality, 223
Leipsic, decision of the Law Faculty concerning a homicidal cow, 169
Leo XIII., his exorcism of Satan and apostate angels, 73
Letang, Louis, causal relation of his novel to the Dreyfus affair, 254
Lex talionis, striking applications of this oldest form of penal justice, 167;
inflicts horrible mutilations, 182
Lilienberg, Mathias Abele Von, his record of a dog sentenced to prison, 175
Liszt, Prof. Von, on retributive and preventive penalties, 237
Locusts, expelled by exorcisms and aspergeoires, 3, 64;
dispersed and destroyed by excommunication, 22, 93, 94;
prosecution of, 95-108, 136
Lohbauer, Pater Franz Xaver, ascribes nervous disease to diabolical possession, 71
Lombroso, on animals as born criminals, 14;
opposed to trial by jury, 185;
regards tattooing, dark thick hair and thin beards, as signs of criminality, 213;
on ativism as the source of crime, 215;
innate criminality not eradicated by education, 223;
compares the capital punishment of cretins and cranks to that of animals, 251
Lucifer, writhes under the water of Lourdes, 74
Lycia, punished by imputation, 180
Majolus, cited, 86
Maledictions. See Anathemas
Malleolus, Felix, his theory of exorcisms endorsed by Heidelberg professors, 27;
records a prosecution of Spanish flies, 110;
his formula for banning serpents, 121
Mangin, Arthur, cited, 16, 139
Manicheans, their doctrine of good and evil, 60
Manouvrier, Dr., likens Gambetta’s skull to that of a savage, 217
Mantegazza, Prof., his “tormentatore,” 245
Manu, Institutes of, 168
Marro, on metaphors as facts, 216
Mather, Cotton, records the execution of a pious Sodomite and eight beasts, 148
Ménebréa, M. L., 2, 17;
his theory untenable, 40
Mephistopheles, the lord of rodents and vermin, 85
Mithridates, experiments with poisons, 244
Moles, prosecution of, 111-113
Monks, as landed proprietors in France, 158
Monomania, frequency of, 227
Morel, Claude, defender of weevils, 38
Mornacius, his record of mad dogs sentenced to death, 176
Morselli, Prof., on the causes of suicide, 229
Mosaic law, the, rejected by an ecclesiastical court, 170;
barbarity of, 167, 180
Murder, miasma of, 9, 174;
weapons tainted by, 187-190
Mutilations, in accordance with the Lex talionis, 176, 182
Mythology, monstrosities and metamorphoses of classical, 64;
in modern life, 228
Naquet, regards criminals as no more culpable than poisons, 212
Narrenkötterlein, dog sentenced to a, 175
Nature, imperfection of, 61
Navarre, Dr., regards fish as cacodemons, 90
Nebuchadnezzar, a satanic metamorphosis, 63
Nikôn, his statue punished for manslaughter committed in self-defence, 172
Noah, God’s covenant with him required the capital punishment of beasts, 168
Novels, morbific influence of sensational, 253
Numa Pompilius, quoted, 106;
his law for protecting boundary stones, 183
Origen, believed in the ultimate redemption of Satan, 68
Osenbrüggen, Eduard, his theory of the personification of animals, 10, 17
Ovid, quoted, 101, 103
Oxen, executed, 168;
punished although innocent, 183
Pachacutez, barbarous code of this Peruvian Justinian, 179
Papal See, trial and punishment of corpses by the, 198
Pape, Guy, cited, 108
Paracelsus, on the magnetic power of the will, 126
Pardoning power, exercise of the, 248
Parsis, their Dasturs, 59;
co-workers of Ahuramazda, 61, 82;
no doctrine of atonement, 63
Pasteur, exterminates noxious microbes, 62
Patriotism as a perverter of justice, 185
Pausanias cited, 172
Penology, man and beast in modern, 14, 193;
mediæval and modern, 15, 200, 206-210;
in Italy and Germany, 203-206;
brutality of mediæval, 206-209;
moral and penal responsibility, 210;
still inchoate, 15, 219-223, 257;
deterrent aims of, 211, 248, 249;
law of the survival of the fittest in, 221-223;
punitive and preventive, 237;
its relation to psycho-pathology, 248
Pereira Gomez, forerunner of Descartes, 66
Perjury, retaliative punishment of, 182
Perrodet, Jean, defender of inger, 118
Phlebotomy. See Blood-letting
Pico di Mirandola, quoted, 103
Piety, market value of, 7
Pigs. See Swine
Pirminius, St., his anathema of venomous reptiles, 29
Plato, his theory of creation, 59;
on homicidal animals, 173;
on retributive and preventive punishment, 237
Pliny, quoted, 103
Pollux, Julius, quoted, 172
Potter, a pious Sodomite executed, 148
Predestination in theology and science, 232-234
Prussia, barbarous punishments, 180;
opposed to reform, 205
Prytaneion (Prytaneum), condemned inanimate objects for crime, 172;
but not corpses, 199
Pufendorf, Samuel, on contagiousness in crime, 256
Puritans, their penal enactments, 209
Pythagoras, his doctrine of transmigration, 87
Queen Reason, her discourse on animals in reply to King Mode, 56-58
Racine, his caricature of beast trials in Les Plaideurs, 166, 361
Ram, banished to Siberia, 175
Randolph, his allusion to rhyming rats, 130
Rats, prosecution of, 18-21, 136;
friendly letters of advice to, 129;
Irish custom of rhyming, 130
Raven, an imp of Satan, 57
Renaud d’Alleins, on equal rights of Waldenses and rats, 20
Responsibility, moral and penal, 210
Reusch, Prof. Dr. Fr. Heinrich, denounces bishops as promoters of superstition, 14
Ro-ro-ro-ro, an anti-semitic devil cast out in 1842, 73
Rosarius, Hierolymus, describes the exposure of crucified lions and gibbeted wolves as a warning to their kind, 251;
regards animals as often more rational than men, 252
Satan, his earthly sovereignty, 60, 70;
the doctrine of his final redemption, 68
Schilling, on the prosecution of inger, 113, 120
Schläger, cited, 176
Schleswig, its punishment of homicidal timber, 187
Schmid, Bernard, his sermon on the devastations by inger, 113-115
Scholasticism, quiddities of, 33
Schopenhauer, his theory of the will, 127;
man’s responsibility for character alone, 239, 243
Schwabenspiegel, barbarity of this old German code, 178
Schwarz Mining, prosecutor of moles, 112
Schweinfurter Sauhenker, origin of the term, 147
Serpents, destroyed by St. Eldrad, 51;
freed from poison by St. Hugon, 103
Shakespeare, alludes to “be-rhymed” rats, 130;
and a wolf on the gallows, 157
Silius Italicus, quoted, 103
Simon, Max, on the morbid spirit of imitation, 253
Sociology, its influence on criminal jurisprudence, 238
Socrates, on self-perfection, 234
Sodomy. See Buggery
Soldan, cited, 17
Sparrows, put under ban by a Protestant parson, 128
Stephen VI., Pope, adjures locusts, 65;
prosecutes the corpse of his predecessor, 198;
strangled in prison, 199
Suicide, punishment of the wife and children of a, 190;
condemned as a crime and also recognized as a right, 191, 192;
due to manifold influences, 229
Superstition, fostered by bishops and Jesuits, 14
Swallows, anathematized for chattering in church, 28
Swine, execution of, 16, 140-145, 149, 153-157, 161, 169;
as stenchy beasts peculiarly attractive to devils, 56, 165;
Gadarene, 69, 91, 165
Swords, tainted, 187
Taine, his definition of man, 214
Tarde, defines the mob as a mad beast, 236
Tatian, his fellow-citizen punished for his offences, 180
Tattooing, not peculiar to criminals, 213
Termites, prosecuted by Franciscans in Brazil and praised by their defender as more industrious than the friars, 123
Tertullian, quoted, 106
Theognis, his bust punished for murder, 172
Thomas à Becket, his bones burned by Henry VIII., 198
Thomas Aquinas, regarded animals only as diabolical incarnations, 53-55, 88, 101, 103
Thurneysser, his bottled scorpions and elk feared as demons, 90
Tithes, importance of the prompt payment of, 37, 94, 107
Tobler, G., on animal prosecutions in Switzerland, 1, 170
Treason, barbarously punished by Roman, Prussian, and Judaic law, 179-181
Trench, Richard Chevenix, his justification of the cursing of the fig-tree, 25
Treufels, Richard, his belief in the exorcism at Wemding in 1891, 75
Tribunals, proper office of criminal, 211, 232, 248
Tritheim, on Satan’s invisible apparition, 166
Tschech, executed, and his innocent daughter exiled for his crime, 179
Türler, records the rejection of the Mosaic law by the ecclesiastical court of Berne, 170
Vampires, superstitions concerning, 195-198
Vendetta, in semi-civilized communities, 178
Venidad, quoted, 63
Ventilation, “bewitched kine” the result of bad, 8
Vermin. See Insects
Virgil, quoted, 26
Weevils, prosecuted for damage to vineyards, 38-49
Wemding, recent case of diabolical possession in, 75
Were-wolves, incarnate ghosts, 195;
decree for their extermination, 198
Werther, Goethe’s, sentimentalism and suicidism produced by, 253
Winterstetter, Georg, his rescript concerning gadflies, 125
Witches in Judaic and mediæval law, on a par with animals, 145;
rendered harmless by burning, 196
Worms, Council of, its decree concerning tainted honey, 9
Zarathushtra (Zoroaster), his ethics and its workings, 57-59
Zoöpsychology, in its relation to anthropopyschology and criminology, 237
Zupetta, on partial vitiation of mind, 201