P. T. Barnum

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS.

HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD.

I. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. CHAPTER I.

II. THE SPIRITUALISTS. CHAPTER IX.

III. TRADE AND BUSINESS IMPOSITIONS. CHAPTER XVIII.

IV. MONEY MANIAS. CHAPTER XXIV.

V. MEDICINE AND QUACKS. CHAPTER XXVIII.

VI. HOAXES. CHAPTER XXXI.

VII. GHOSTS AND WITCHCRAFTS. CHAPTER. XXXIV.

VIII. ADVENTURERS. CHAPTER XXXIX.

IX. RELIGIOUS HUMBUGS. CHAPTER XLIV.

Transcriber’s Note

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changes is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text.

THE
HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD.

AN ACCOUNT OF HUMBUGS, DELUSIONS, IMPOSITIONS,
QUACKERIES, DECEITS AND DECEIVERS
GENERALLY, IN ALL AGES.

BY
P. T. BARNUM.

“Omne ignotum pro mirifico.”—“Wonderful, because mysterious.”

NEW YORK:
CARLETON. PUBLISHER. 413 BROADWAY.
1866.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
G. W. CARLETON,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.