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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
- Standardized Title:
- Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impostors and imposture.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Occultism--Early works to 1900.
- Occultism.
- Delusions.
- Social psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 v. )
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston, 1850.
- 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 beards
- Duels and ordeals
- Popular follies in great cities
- The O.P. Mania
- The thugs and phansigars
- Witch mania
- The slow poisoners
- v. 2. The Crusades
- Haunted houses
- Philosophical delusions-Introductory remarks
- The alchemists, or Searchers for the philosopher's stone and the water of life
- Fortune-telling
- The magnetisers.
- Notes:
- Vol. 2 has title page: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions.
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 43357.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG97-B498
- OCLC:
- 85792851
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