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The history of magic / [J. Ennemoser] ; translated from the German by William Howitt. To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparitions, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning, and spirit-rapping selected by Mary Howitt.

  • Ennemoser, Joseph, 1787-1854.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The history of magic / [J. Ennemoser] ; translated from the German by William Howitt. To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparitions, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning, and spirit-rapping selected by Mary Howitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 Disciples of Pythagoras, habits of the, i. 398. Divinatiou by signs, lamblichus on, i. 454. Divinations:—Artificial divination, ii. 452; natural divination, ib.; axi- flomancy, 453; alectoromantia, ih.; arithmonancy, ih.; belomancy, ih.; cleoromancy, 454 ; cledonism, ib.; coscinomancy, 455; capnonancy, ih.; catoptromancy, ib.; chiro- mancy, 456 ; dactyliomancy, ib.; extispicium, ib.; gastromancy, 457; geomancy, ib.; hydromancy, ib.; oneirocritica, 458; ouomancy, or onomamancy, ib.; onycomancy, 459; ornithomancy, ib.\ pyro- mancy, 460 ; psychomancy, or scio- mancy, ib.; rhabdomancy, ib. Divining rod, experiments with the, ii. 461. Doctrine of Paracelsus, ii. 230. Doctrines of Jacob Bohme, ii. 301. Dodona, oracle of Jupiter at, i. 375. Dodonian priestesses, tbe, i. 381. —, prophecies of, i. 382. “ Doubles,” erroneous notion regard- ing, i. 67. Dreams, accounts of remarkable:— Gennadius, i. 55.; Aristides, 389; Dr. Doddridge, ii. 410; Nicholas Wotton,412; Captain Rogers, 414; William Howitt, 416; Edmund Halley, 416; Rev. Joseph Wilkin, 417 ; Awde, 417; Lord Lyttleton, 419. —, death of parents confirmed by, ii. 421. —, anecdotes concerning, i. 34. —, Aristotle’s theory of, i. 404. — first cultivated in Asia, at Babylon, i. 224. —, Homer on double, i. 55. — mentioned in the Old Covenant, i. 273. —, occasional vividity of, i. 51. —, physiological explanation of, i. 35. —, potver of producing, in others, i. 52. Druids, Poraponius on the wisdom of | the, ii. 86. Drummer of Tedworth, the, ii. 396. Dryden and his son’s nativity, ii. 450. ' Dualists, antiquity of the, i. 141. Dying predictions, frequent meution of, in the authors of antiquity, i. 63. 1 Eauliest attempts to explain mainc, i. 138. Early Christians’ belief in demons, ii. 139. —, magic among the, ii. 81. East of Europe, vampirism iu the, ii. 185. Eberhart’s views of the sources of magical ai-t, i. 4. Ecstasy, as defined by ancient writers, i. 85. —, various descriptions of, i. 86. Ecstatic and inspired visions, i. 25. Efficacy of youthful breath and blood applied to old or diseased persons, i. 117. Egg, the Orphean, i. 392. Egypt, celebrated temples in, i. 244. Egy])tian belief, leading features of, i. 269. — magic from a biblical point of view, i. 232. — statues connected with magnetism, i. 267. — symbols explained by Denon, i. 264. Egyptians, magic among the, i. 231. —, magnetic practices among the, i. 261. —, materialism known among the, i. 141. —, mysterious monuments of the, i. 254. Elements of hlontanism, ii. 82. Elfish fairies of Scotland, ii. 113. Elijah and Elisha, prophecies of, i. 292. Elves, wliite and black, ii. 109. Emmerich, the bleeding woimds of Anna Katharina, i. 102. Empedocles the Pythagorean, i. 403. Enlightenment wars against witchcraft, ii. 189.