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
Simon, Max, on the morbid spirit of imitation, 253
Sociology, its influence on criminal jurisprudence, 238
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
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
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
Ventilation, “bewitched kine” the result of bad, 8
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