Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous
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1835
Bombastes kept the devil's bird, Shut in the pommel of his sword, And taught him all the cunning pranks, Of past and future mountebanks. Hudibras .
Demonology—The Devil, a most unaccountable personage—Who is he?—His predilection for old women—Traditions concerning evil spirits &c.
Magic and Magical rites.
Jewish magi.
On the several kinds of magic.
Augury, or divinations drawn from the flight and feeding of birds.
Aruspices, or divinations drawn from brute or human sacrifices.
Divisions of divination by the ancients—prodigies, etc.
History of Oracles—The principal oracles of antiquity.
Oxonian
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THAUMATURGIA,
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
THAUMATURGIA,
CHAPTER I.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II.
JEWISH MAGI.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III.
ON THE SEVERAL KINDS OF MAGIC.
AUGURY, OR DIVINATIONS DRAWN FROM THE FLIGHT AND FEEDING OP BIRDS.
ARUSPICES, OR DIVINATIONS DRAWN FROM BRUTE, OR HUMAN SACRIFICES.
DIVISIONS OP DIVINATION BY THE ANCIENTS—PRODIGIES, ETC.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV.
HISTORY OF ORACLES—THE PRINCIPAL ORACLES OF ANTIQUITY.
THE ORACLE OP JUPITER HAMMON.
THE ORACLE OF DELPHOS, OR PYTHIAN APOLLO.
CEREMONIES PRACTISED ON CONSULTING ORACLES.
ORACLES OFTEN EQUIVOCAL AND OBSCURE.
URIM AND THUMMIM.
REPUTATION OF ORACLES, HOW LOST.
CESSATION OF ORACLES.
HAD DEMONS ANY SHARE IN THE ORACLES?
OF ORACLES, THE ARTIFICES OP PRIESTS OP FALSE DIVINITIES.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V.
THE BRITISH MAGI.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII.
INFERIOR DEITIES ATTENDING MANKIND PROM THEIR BIRTH TO THEIR DECEASE.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VIII.
JUDICIAL ASTROLOGY—ITS CHEMICAL APPLICATION TO THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE AND HEALTH—ALCHYMICAL DELUSIONS.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX.
ALCHYMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL CHIMERA.
THE HOROSCOPE, A TALE OF THE STARS.
THE FATED PARRICIDE; AN ORIENTAL TALE OF THE STARS.
ADVERTISEMENT.
SPRING,
SUMMER,
AUTUMN
OF THE WINTER QUARTER.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER X.
ONEIROCRITICAL PRESENTIMENT, ILLUSTRATING THE CAUSE, EFFECTS, PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA, AND DEFINITION OF DREAMS, ETC.
CAUSE OF DREAMS.
POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF THE IMAGINATION IN DREAMS.
PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA IN DREAMING.
DEFINITION OF DREAMS.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XI.
ON INCUBATION; OR THE ART OF HEALING BY VISIONARY DIVINATION.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XII.
ON AMULETS, CHARMS, TALISMANS—PHILTERS, THEIR ORIGIN AND IMAGINARY EFFICACY, ETC.
AMULETS USED BY THE COMMON PEOPLE.
ECCENTRICITIES, CAPRICES, AND EFFECTS, OF THE IMAGINATION.
DOCTRINE OF EFFLUVIA—MIRACULOUS CURES BY MEANS OF CHARMS, AMULETS, ETC.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIII.
ON TALISMANS—SOME CURIOUS, NATURAL ONES, ETC.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIV.
ON THE MEDICINAL POWERS ATTRIBUTED TO MUSIC BY THE ANCIENTS.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XV.
PRESAGES, PRODIGES, PRESENTIMENTS, ETC.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XVI.
PHENOMENA OF METEORS, OPTIC DELUSIONS, SPECTRA, ETC.
CHAPTER XVII.
ELUCIDATION OF SOME ANCIENT PRODIGIES.
MAGICAL PRETENSIONS OF CERTAIN HERBS, ETC.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE PRACTICE OF OBEAH, OR NEGRO WITCHCRAFT—CHARMS—THEIR KNOWLEDGE OP VEGETABLE POISONS—SECRET POISONING.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIX.
ON THE ORIGIN AND SUPERSTITIOUS INFLUENCE OP RINGS.
CHAPTER XX.
ABSURDITIES OF PARACELSUS, AND VAN HELMONT.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXI.
MODERN EMPIRICISM.
ON THE TRANSFUSION OP BLOOD FROM ONE ANIMAL TO ANOTHER.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXII.
THE ROSICRUCIANS OR THEOSOPHISTS.