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

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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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