Bernardes, Manoel, his _Nova Floresta_, 124
Berriat-Saint-Prix, his valuable researches, 2, 17, 20; list of prosecuted animals, 135-137
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
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
Brain, its size not always a measure of mental capacity, 217-219
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
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
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
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