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Oxonian. Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous
Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
THAUMATURGIA, OR. ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS. CHAPTER I
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
JEWISH MAGI
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III
ON THE SEVERAL KINDS OF MAGIC
AUGURY, OR DIVINATIONS DRAWN FROM THE FLIGHT AND FEEDING OP BIRDS
ARUSPICES, OR DIVINATIONS DRAWN FROM BRUTE, OR HUMAN SACRIFICES
DIVISIONS OP DIVINATION BY THE ANCIENTS—PRODIGIES, ETC
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CHAPTER IV
HISTORY OF ORACLES—THE PRINCIPAL ORACLES OF ANTIQUITY
THE ORACLE OP 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 OP PRIESTS OP FALSE DIVINITIES
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
THE BRITISH MAGI
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII
INFERIOR DEITIES ATTENDING MANKIND PROM THEIR BIRTH TO THEIR DECEASE
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VIII
JUDICIAL ASTROLOGY—ITS CHEMICAL APPLICATION TO THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE AND HEALTH—ALCHYMICAL DELUSIONS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX
ALCHYMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL CHIMERA
THE HOROSCOPE, A TALE OF THE STARS
THE FATED PARRICIDE; AN ORIENTAL TALE OF THE STARS
ADVERTISEMENT
SPRING,
SUMMER,
AUTUMN
OF THE WINTER QUARTER
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CHAPTER X
ONEIROCRITICAL PRESENTIMENT, ILLUSTRATING THE CAUSE, EFFECTS, PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA, AND DEFINITION OF DREAMS, ETC
CAUSE OF DREAMS
POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF THE IMAGINATION IN DREAMS
PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA IN DREAMING
DEFINITION OF DREAMS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XI
ON INCUBATION; OR THE ART OF HEALING BY VISIONARY DIVINATION
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XII
ON AMULETS, CHARMS, TALISMANS—PHILTERS, THEIR ORIGIN AND IMAGINARY EFFICACY, ETC
AMULETS USED BY THE COMMON PEOPLE
ECCENTRICITIES, CAPRICES, AND EFFECTS, OF THE IMAGINATION
DOCTRINE OF EFFLUVIA—MIRACULOUS CURES BY MEANS OF CHARMS, AMULETS, ETC
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIII
ON TALISMANS—SOME CURIOUS, NATURAL ONES, ETC
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIV
ON THE MEDICINAL POWERS ATTRIBUTED TO MUSIC BY THE ANCIENTS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XV
PRESAGES, PRODIGES, PRESENTIMENTS, ETC
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XVI
PHENOMENA OF METEORS, OPTIC DELUSIONS, SPECTRA, ETC
CHAPTER XVII
ELUCIDATION OF SOME ANCIENT PRODIGIES
MAGICAL PRETENSIONS OF CERTAIN HERBS, ETC
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XVIII
THE PRACTICE OF OBEAH, OR NEGRO WITCHCRAFT—CHARMS—THEIR KNOWLEDGE OP VEGETABLE POISONS—SECRET POISONING
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIX
ON THE ORIGIN AND SUPERSTITIOUS INFLUENCE OP RINGS
CHAPTER XX
ABSURDITIES OF PARACELSUS, AND VAN HELMONT
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXI
MODERN EMPIRICISM
ON THE TRANSFUSION OP BLOOD FROM ONE ANIMAL TO ANOTHER
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXII
THE ROSICRUCIANS OR THEOSOPHISTS
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Oxonian
Published by Good Press, 2019
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In any one's name than his own.
To be brief, the devil, it appears, is by far too cunning still for mankind, and continues to manage things in his own way, in spite of bishops, priests, laymen, and new churches. He governs the vices and propensities of men by methods peculiarly his own; though every crime or extortion, subterfuge or design, whether it be upon the purse or the person, will not make a man a devil; it must nevertheless be confessed, that every crime, be its magnitude or complexion what it may, puts the criminal, in some measure, into the devil's power, and gives him an ascendancy and even a title to the delinquent, whom he ever afterwards treats in a very magisterial manner.
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