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Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions / by Charles Mackay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impostors and imposture.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Occultism--Early works to 1900.
- Occultism.
- Delusions.
- Social psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (3 v. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- London : R. Bentley, 1841.
- Contents:
- v. 1. The Mississippi scheme
- The South-Sea bubble
- The tulipomania
- Relics
- Modern prophecies
- Popular admiration for great thieves
- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard
- Duels and ordeals
- The love of the marvellous and the disbelief of the true
- Popular follies in great cities
- The O.P. mania
- The thugs, or phansigars
- v. 2. The Crusades
- The witch mania
- The slow poisoners
- Haunted houses
- v. 3. book 1. The alchymists; or, searchers for the philosopher's stone and the water of life
- book 2. Fortune telling
- book 3. The magnetisers.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 43356.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG97-B801
- OCLC:
- 65271612
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