title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Mysteries of All Nations
Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials
of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With
Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales | Grant, James, archaeologist | en | | | | Superstition; Trials (Witchcraft); Occultism | 2006-11-23 |
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 | en | | The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics. | | Delusions; Impostors and imposture; Occultism; Social psychology; Swindlers and swindling; Hallucinations and illusions | 2008-02-05 |
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 | en | | | | Impostors and imposture; Swindlers and swindling; Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Investments -- Psychological aspects; Delusions; Alchemy; Social psychology | 1996-11-01 |
The Humbugs of the World
An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries,
Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages | Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891 | en | | | | | 2008-09-16 |
The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) | Taylor, John M. (John Metcalf), 1845-1918 | en | | | | Witchcraft -- Connecticut -- History; Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | 2004-05-01 |