CATERPILLAR.| NATURAL HISTORY. “e 
suffocation. It must needs be an unclean and impure beast 
that liveth only upon vermin and by ravening, for it is 
commonly said of a man when he [s]neezeth—that he hath 
eaten with Cats; likewise, the familiars of witches do most 
ordinarily “appear in the shape of Cats, which is an argu- 
ment that this beast is dangerous to soul and body. 
Topsell, ‘‘Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 81-3.’ 
Caterpillar. 
Caterpillars eat my leaves away. 
ii. Henry VL, iii. 1, go. 
WueEwn the rainbow toucheth the tree, no Caterpillars will 
hang on the leaves. Lilly, Epilogue to “ Campaspe.” 
Ir you would destroy Caterpillars, do thus: Anoint all 
the bottom of the tree round about with tar, then get a 
great sort of ants or pismires, and put them in some bag, 
and draw the same by a cord unto the tree, and so let it 
hang there, so that it touch the body of the tree, and the 
ants letted to go down from the tree by the means of the 
tar will for want of food eat and destroy all the Cater- 
pulars there, without hurting any of the fruit. This was 
told me for a very truth. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. x. § 51. 
Tue Malshrag [i.e., Caterpillar] is a nesh [soft] worm 
and full of matter, distinguished with divers colours, shining 
as a star by night, and hath many colours and foul shape 
by day. And is not without some pestilential venom, for 
when he creepeth upon an hot member of a man, he 
scaldeth the skin, and maketh whelks [i.e., pustules] arise. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 47. 
V. Vermin and Worm. 
Some Caterpillars are the offspring and breed of dew, as 
common experience can witness. All Caterpillars are not 
converted into aurelias [chrysalis], but some of them. being 
gathered and drawn together ‘on a heap (as the vine 
fretters), do grow at length to putrefaction, from which 
