Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
NORTH AMERICA, SIBERIA, AND RUSSIA.1
LETTERS ON THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS
VI.—RELIGIOUS DELUSIONS: THE POSSESSED: WITCHCRAFT
THE HYMN OF KING OLAF THE SAINT
FOUR SONNETS BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
TWO SKETCHES
MOUNTAINEER AND POET
THE POET
CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE DECLINING OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
(BEING A FEW PAGES FROM MY EASTERN DIARY)
HORÆ CATULLIANÆ
LETTER TO EUSEBIUS
HORÆ CATULLIANÆ
AD SIRMIONEM PENINSULAM
TO THE PENINSULA OF SIRMIO
INVITATION TO CÆCILIUS
IN EGNATIUM
TO MY FARM
AD FUNDUM
DE ACME ET SEPTIMIO
OF SEPTIMIUS AND ACME
AD LICINIUM
UT FLOS IN SEPTIS, &C
AD ORTALUM
DE AMORE SUO
DE QUINTIA ET LESBIA
OF LESBIA
DE LESBIA
OF WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY
DE INCONSTANTIA FEMINEI AMORIS
IN COMINIUM
POSTSCRIPT
PROSPER MÉRIMÉE
HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE AND LIVE IN IT
NO. III
A TURKISH WATERING-PLACE
PACIFIC ROVINGS.3
ON THE NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF THE BREAD NOW IN USE
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Dear Archy,—The subjects about which I propose writing to you to-day are, delusions of a religious nature;—the idea of being possessed,—the grounds of the belief in witchcraft. With so much before me, I have no room to waste. So, of the first, first.
The powerful hold which the feeling of religion takes on our nature, at once attests the truth of the sentiment, and warns us to be on our guard against fanatical excesses. No subject can safely be permitted to have exclusive possession of our thoughts, least of all the most absorbing and exciting of any.
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We remember that Socrates had his demon; and it should be mentioned as a prominent feature in visions generally, that their subject soon identifies one particular imaginary being as his guide and informant, to whom he applies for what knowledge he wishes. In the most exalted states of trance-waking, the guide or demon is continually referred to with profound respect by the entranced person. Now, was Socrates, and are patients of the class I have alluded to, possessed? No! the meaning of the term is evidently not yet hit.
Then there are persons who permanently fancy themselves other beings than they are, and act as such.
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