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CHAPTER I. DEMONOLOGY—THE DEVIL, A MOST
UNACCOUNTABLE PERSONAGE—WHO IS HE?—HIS PREDILECTION FOR OLD
WOMEN—TRADITIONS CONCERNING EVIL SPIRITS, &c.
CHAPTER II. MAGIC AND MAGICAL RITES, &c.
CHAPTER III. ON THE SEVERAL KINDS OF MAGIC.
CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF ORACLES—THE PRINCIPAL
ORACLES OF ANTIQUITY.
CHAPTER V. THE BRITISH DRUIDS, OR MAGI—ORIGIN OF
FAIRIES—ANCIENT SUPERSTITIONS——THEIR SKILL IN MEDECINE, &c.
CHAPTER VI. AESCULAPIAN MYSTERIES, &c.
CHAPTER VII. INFERIOR DEITIES ATTENDING MANKIND
PROM THEIR BIRTH TO THEIR DECEASE.
CHAPTER VIII. JUDICIAL ASTROLOGY—ITS CHEMICAL
APPLICATION TO THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE AND HEALTH—ALCHYMICAL
DELUSIONS.
CHAPTER IX. ALCHYMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL CHIMERA.
CHAPTER X. ONEIROCRITICAL PRESENTIMENT,
ILLUSTRATING THE CAUSE, EFFECTS, PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA, AND DEFINITION OF
DREAMS, ETC.
CHAPTER XI. ON INCUBATION; OR THE ART OF HEALING
BY VISIONARY DIVINATION.
CHAPTER XII. ON AMULETS, CHARMS,
TALISMANS—PHILTERS, THEIR ORIGIN AND IMAGINARY EFFICACY, ETC.
CHAPTER XIII. ON TALISMANS—SOME CURIOUS, NATURAL
ONES, ETC.
CHAPTER XIV. ON THE MEDICINAL POWERS ATTRIBUTED TO
MUSIC BY THE ANCIENTS.
CHAPTER XV. PRESAGES, PRODIGES, PRESENTIMENTS,
ETC.
CHAPTER XVI. PHENOMENA OF METEORS, OPTIC
DELUSIONS, SPECTRA, ETC.
CHAPTER XVII. ELUCIDATION OF SOME ANCIENT
PRODIGIES.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRACTICE OF OBEAH, OR NEGRO
WITCHCRAFT—CHARMS—THEIR KNOWLEDGE OP VEGETABLE POISONS—SECRET
POISONING.
CHAPTER XIX. ON THE ORIGIN AND SUPERSTITIOUS
INFLUENCE OP RINGS.
CHAPTER XX. CELESTIAL
INFLUENCES—OMENS—CLIMACTERICS—PREDOMINATIONS—LUCKY AND UNLUCKY
DAYS—EMPIRICS, &c.
CHAPTER XXI. MODERN EMPIRICISM.
CHAPTER XXII. THE ROSICRUCIANS OR THEOSOPHISTS.
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