Witchcraft

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns Ne diffèrent entre eux que du plus ou du moins. BOILEAU.

Chapters

4. chapter 9. In the reign of Philippe le Bel, he appeared to a monk in the

shape of a dark man riding a tall black horse, then as a friar, afterwards as an ass and finally as a coach-wheel. Instances are not rare in which both he and his inferior demon...

2. ill. Nicholas watched by his bedside, and acted the double part of a

physician and nurse to him; but he died after a few days, lamenting with his last breath that he had not lived long enough to see the precious volume. Nicholas rendered the last...

1. VOLUME I.

N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns Ne diffèrent entre eux que...

3. VOLUME II.

N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce, En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns Ne diffèrent entre eux que...

6. i. 63, 74, 77;

Bohemund, his courage displayed in the Crusades, ii. 21, 28, 30, 31, 35, 38, 39; takes Antioch, by treachery in the garrison, 32; is made Prince of Antioch, 32, 41.

11. i. 275;

MISSISSIPPI SCHEME, the, its history, i. 1-44; financial difficulties in France, expedients of the Regent Orleans, i. 6; official peculation and corruption, 7; John Law's propos...

8. i. 47-55, 69;

Hair, its length influenced by religious and political prejudices; legislative enactments, i. 296; short hair of the Normans (_engraving_), i. 297, 303; St. Wulstan's antipathy...

14. ii. 200;

his origin and rise at court; supposed vicious connexion with James I.; his intrigue and marriage with the Countess of Essex; the murder of Overbury; the earl's trial and senten...

16. i. 85;

great demand for plants in Holland and Germany, introduced in England from Vienna, the flower described and eulogised by Beckmann and Cowley, 86; rage for bulbs in Holland and t...

10. i. 105;

MAGNETISERS, the, i. 262-295; effect of imagination in the cure of diseases, i. 262, 272. _Mineral Magnetism_: Paracelsus its first professor, 263; diseases transplanted to the...

12. i. 167;

Scott, Sir Walter, his anachronisms on the Crusades, ii. 74, 98. "Scratching Fanny," or the Cock Lane Ghost; her remains in the vault of St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, ii. 230.

7. i. 5, 6;

the Crusade preached there, ii. 8; the cathedral of Clermont (_engraving_), ii. 9; executions for witchcraft, ii. 119, 122, 174; existing belief in witchcraft there, ii. 189; th...

5. ii. 35-40;

15. i. 109;

13. ii. 252;

9. ii. 171;