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Excerpt: "Among the multifarious absurdities and chicaneries, which at different epocha of society have clung to, and engaged the attention of man, absorbing, as it were, his more active intelligence, the marvellous and the ridiculous have alternately and conjointly had to contend for pre-eminence; that, whether it were a mountain in the moon or a bottle conjuror; a live lion stuffed with straw or a mermaid; a Cocklane ghost or a living skeleton; a giant or a pigmy; the delusive bait has invariably been swallowed with avidity, and credited with all the solemnity of absolute devotion."
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Table of contents
1PREFACE.
22PHYSIOGNOMY[37], ΦΥΣΙΟΓΝΩΜΙΑ.
2OBSERVATIONS ON ANCIENT AND
23APPARITIONS.
3PROOFS AND TRIALS OF GUILT IN SUPERSTITIOUS AGES.
24DEUTEROSCOPIA, OR SECOND-SIGHT.
4ASTROLOGY, &c.
25WITCHES, WITCHCRAFT, WIZARDS, &c.
5PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY, &c.
26SORCERY.
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6NATURAL ASTROLOGY
27SORTES.—SORTILEGIUM.
7JUDICIAL OR JUDICIARY ASTROLOGY
28SIBYLS.
8ON THE ORIGIN AND IMAGINARY EFFICACY OF AMULETS & CHARMS,
29TALISMANS.
9HISTORY OF POPULAR MEDICINES, ETC.—HOW INFLUENCED BY SUPERSTITION.
30PHILTERS, CHARMS, &c.
10ALCHYMY[22].
31HELL,
11ALKAHEST, OR ALCAHEST,
32INQUISITION.
12MAGICIAN.
33DEMON,
13MAGI, OR MAGEANS,
34DEMONOLOGY.
14MAGIC, MAGIA, MATEIA,
35THE DEMON OF JEDBURGH.
15PREDICTION.
36THE GHOST OF JULIUS CÆSAR.
16FATALISM, OR PREDESTINATION.
37GIPSIES—EGYPTIANS.
17DIVINATION,
38JUGGLERS, THEIR ORIGIN, EXPLOITS, &c.
18ORACLE.
39LEGENDS, &c. MIRACLES, &c.
19OURAN, OR URAN, SOANGUS,
40MONKS AND FRIARS.—SAINTS AND HERMITS.
20DREAMS, &c.
41HOLY RELIQUE-MANIA.
21FATE.
