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Eccentricities, caprices, and effects, of the imagination.
Doctrine of Effluvia--Miraculous cures by means of charms, amulets, 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, prodigies, presentiments, etc.

CHAPTER XVI.
Phenomena of meteors, optic delusions, spectra, etc.

CHAPTER XVII.
Elucidation of some ancient prodigies.
Magical pretensions of certain herbs, etc.

CHAPTER XVIII.
The practice of Obeah, or negro witchcraft--charms--their knowledge of
vegetable poison--secret poisoning.

CHAPTER XIX.
On the origin and superstitious influence of rings.

CHAPTER XX.
Celestial influences--omens--climacterics--predominations.--Lucky and
unlucky days.--Empirics, etc.
Absurdities of Paracelsus, and Van Helmont.

CHAPTER XXI.
Modern empiricism.

CHAPTER XXII.
The Rosicrucians or Theosophists.
THAUMATURGIA,
OR
ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS.


CHAPTER I.

DEMONOLOGY--THE DEVIL, A MOST UNACCOUNTABLE PERSONAGE--WHO IS HE?--HIS
PREDILECTION FOR OLD WOMEN--TRADITIONS CONCERNING EVIL SPIRITS, &C.


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