Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous. Oxonian
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Oxonian
Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664602954
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER I.
Demonology—The Devil, a most unaccountable personage—Who is he?—His predilection for old women—Traditions concerning evil spirits &c.
CHAPTER II.
Magic and Magical rites.
Jewish magi.
CHAPTER III.
On the several kinds of magic.
Augury, or divinations drawn from the flight and feeding of birds.
Aruspices, or divinations drawn from brute or human sacrifices.
Divisions of divination by the ancients—prodigies, etc.
CHAPTER IV.
History of Oracles—The principal oracles of antiquity.
The oracle of 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 of priests of false divinities.
CHAPTER V.
The British Druids, or magi—Origin of fairies—Ancient superstitions—Their skill in medicine, etc.
The British magi.
CHAPTER VI.
Aesculapian mysteries, etc.
CHAPTER VII.
Inferior deities attending mankind from their birth to their decease.
CHAPTER VIII.
Judicial astrology—Its chemical application to the prolongation of life and health—Alchymical delusions.
CHAPTER IX
Alchymical and astrological chimera.
The Horoscope, a tale of the stars.
The Fated Parricide; an oriental tale of the stars.
Application of astrology to the prolongation of life, etc.
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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.
CHAPTER XI.
On Incubation, or the art of healing by visionary divination.
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.
CHAPTER XIII.
On talismans—some curious natural ones, etc.
CHAPTER XIV.
On the medicinal powers attributed to music by the ancients.
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