CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III. ON THE SEVERAL KINDS OF MAGIC.
CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF ORACLES THE PRINCIPAL ORACLES OF ANTIQUITY.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII. INFERIOR DEITIES ATTENDING MANKIND PROM THEIR BIRTH TO THEIR DECEASE.
CHAPTER VIII. JUDICIAL ASTROLOGY ITS CHEMICAL APPLICATION TO
CHAPTER IX. ALCHYMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL CHIMERA.
CHAPTER X. ONEIROCRITICAL PRESENTIMENT, ILLUSTRATING THE CAUSE,
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.
CHAPTER XIII. ON TALISMANS SOME CURIOUS, NATURAL ONES, ETC.
CHAPTER XIV. ON THE MEDICINAL POWERS ATTRIBUTED TO MUSIC BY THE ANCIENTS.
CHAPTER XV. PRESAGES, PRODIGES, PRESENTIMENTS, ETC.
CHAPTER XVI. PHENOMENA OF METEORS, OPTIC DELUSIONS, SPECTRA, ETC.
CHAPTER XVII. ELUCIDATION OF SOME ANCIENT PRODIGIES.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRACTICE OF OBEAH, OR NEGRO
CHAPTER XIX. ON THE ORIGIN AND SUPERSTITIOUS INFLUENCE OP RINGS.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI. MODERN EMPIRICISM.
CHAPTER XXII. THE ROSICRUCIANS OR THEOSOPHISTS.
Title: Thaumaturgia
Author: An Oxonian
Language: English
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THAUMATURGIA,
OR
ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS.
BY
AN OXONIAN.
1835
"Bombastes kept the devil's bird,
Shut in the pommel of his sword,
And taught him all the cunning pranks,
Of past and future mountebanks."
Hudibras.
