[5] "It reminded them of the Island of Glubdubdrib, 'where the Governor, by his skill in necromancy, had the power of calling whom he pleased from the dead' (Gulliver, chap. vii.)."
[6] "Lamp-black prepared in a peculiar way."
[7] "Of these men more hereafter."
[8] "Various kinds of brass pots and pipkins."
[9] "Read 'Zoo-electric force.'"
[10] "Churchill's 'Mount Lebanon' (London, 1853), vol. i. pp. 146-167."
[11] "This process, like the words of the vulgar 'spell,' was probably used to concentrate the will."
[12] "The Korán-gardán, or Korán-turning of the Persians. Usually the key is made fast to the book, and its handle rests upon the finger-tips of the patients, whose nervous agitation and muscular action, unknown to them, cause the movement. At Goa the Portuguese thus discover thieves, etc. The gypsies of Spain also practise the rite, the accuser and the accused singing the Song of Solomon."
[13] "A favourite gypsy trick in Northern Africa."
[14] "The italics are not the author's."