Lexicographical Neighbors of Caligos
Literary usage of Caligos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1884)
"the opener parts, rarely settling and rarely coming within reach of the net; the
gigantic caligos always settling on tree trunks in the shade, ..."
2. Peru: A Land of Contrasts by Millicent Todd Bingham (1914)
"Such are the caligos, amazing creatures equipped on the under side with an owl's
head, which can terrify their pursuers by merely turning wrong side out. ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1877)
"Since I remember anything about Potatoes, and up till 1843 and 1846, the Potatoes
grown in the Lothians were London Dons, alias caligos, a very fine variety ..."
4. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels edited by Robert Kerr (1814)
"... luden with quicksilver, cacao, and dollars, and waits the arrival of the
Manilla ships, from which she takes in a cargo of spices, caligos, muslins, ..."
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