Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein With an Account of Mesmerism

LETTER IX. RELIGIOUS DELUSIONS.—The seizures giving

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rise to them shown to have been forms of trance brought on by fanatical excitement—The Cevennes—Scenes at the tomb of the Abbé Paris—Revivals in America—The Ecstatica of Caldaro—Three forms of imputed demoniacal possession—Witchcraft; its marvels, and the solution, 136