EY BURNED THEM.--THE MODE OF TRIAL.--WITCHES
TO-DAY IN EUROPE. 308

CHAPTER XXXVIII.--CHARMS AND INCANTATIONS.--HOW CATO CURED
SPRAINS.--THE SECRET NAME OF GOD.--SECRET NAMES OF CITIES.--ABRACADABRA
CURES FOR CRAMP.--MR. WRIGHT'S SIGIL.--WHISKERIFUSTICUS.--WITCHES'
HORSES.--THEIR CURSES.--HOW TO RAISE THE DEVIL. 314

VIII. ADVENTURERS.

CHAPTER XXXIX.--THE PRINCESS CARIBOO. 323

CHAPTER XL.--COUNT CAGLIOSTRO, ALIAS JOSEPH BALSAMO, KNOWN ALSO
AS "CURSED JOE." 330

CHAPTER XLI.--THE DIAMOND NECKLACE. 338

CHAPTER XLII.--THE COUNT DE ST. GERMAIN, SAGE, PROPHET, AND
MAGICIAN. 354

CHAPTER XLIII.--RIZA BEY, THE PERSIAN ENVOY TO LOUIS XIV. 361

IX. RELIGIOUS HUMBUGS.

CHAPTER XLIV.--DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.--MATTHIAS THE IMPOSTOR.--NEW
YORK FOLLIES THIRTY YEARS AGO. 370

CHAPTER XLV.--A RELIGIOUS HUMBUG ON JOHN BULL.--JOANNA
SOUTHCOTT.--THE SECOND SHILOH. 380

CHAPTER XLVI.--THE FIRST HUMBUG IN THE WORLD.--ADVANTAGES OF
STUDYING THE IMPOSITIONS OF FORMER AGES.--HEATHEN HUMBUGS.--THE
ANCIENT MYSTERIES.--THE CABIRI.--ELEUSIS.--ISIS. 386

CHAPTER XLVII.--HEATHEN HUMBUGS NO. 2.--HEATHEN STATED
SERVICES.--ORACLES.--SIBYLS.--AUGURIES. 392

CHAPTER XLVIII.--MODERN HEATHEN HUMBUGS. 401

CHAPTER XLIX.--ORDEALS. 408

CHAPTER L.--APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. 415

HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD.

I. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT.--HUMBUG UNIVERSAL.--IN RELIGION.--IN
POLITICS.--IN BUSINESS.--IN SCIENCE.--IN MEDICINE.--HOW IS IT TO
CEASE.--THE GREATEST HUMBUG OF ALL.

A little reflection will show that humbug is an astonishingly
wide-spread phenomenon--in fact almost universal. And this is true,
although we exclude crimes and arrant swindles from the definition of
it, according to the somewhat careful explanation which is given in the
beginning of the chapter succeeding this one.

I apprehend that there is no sort of object which men seek to attain,
whether secular, moral or religious, in