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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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