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1835
"Bombastes kept the devil's bird,
Shut in the pommel of his sword,
And taught him all the cunning pranks,
Of past and future mountebanks."
Hudibras.
Demonology—The Devil, a most unaccountable personage—Who is he?—Hispredilection for old women—Traditions concerning evil spirits &c.
Magic and Magical rites.
Jewish magi.
On the several kinds of magic.
Augury, or divinations drawn from the flight and feeding of birds.
Aruspices, or divinations drawn from brute or human sacrifices.
Divisions of divination by the ancients—prodigies, etc.
History of Oracles—The principal oracles of antiquity.
The oracle of Jupiter Hammon. The oracle of Delphos, or Pythian Apollo.
Ceremonies practised on consulting oracles.
Oracles often equivocal and obscure.
Urim and Thummim.
Reputation of oracles, how lost.
Cessation of oracles.
Had demons any share in the oracles?
Of oracles, the artifices of priests of false divinities.
The British Druids, or magi—Origin of fairies—Ancientsuperstitions—Their skill in medicine, etc.
The British magi.
Aesculapian mysteries, etc.
Inferior deities attending mankind from their birth to their decease.
Judicial astrology—Its chemical application to the prolongation of lifeand health—Alchymical delusions.
Alchymical and astrological chimera.
The Horoscope, a tale of the stars.
The Fated Parricide; an oriental tale of the stars.
Application of astrology to the prolongation of life, etc.
Advertisement.
Spring. \
Summer. |_ influences of,
Autumn. |
the winter quarter. /
Oneirocritical presentiment, illustrating the cause, effects, principalphenomena, and definition of dreams, etc.
Cause of Dreams.
Poetical illustrations of the effects of the imagination in dreams.
Principal phenomena in dreaming.
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