Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions [microform] /
Mackay, Charles,1814-1889.
London : R. Bentley,
1841.
v. 1. The Mississippi scheme -- The South-Sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- Relics -- Modern prophecies -- Popular admiration for great thieves -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- Duels and ordeals -- The love of the marvellous and the disbelief of the true -- Popular follies in great cities -- The O.P. mania -- The thugs, or phansigars -- v. 2. The Crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- v. 3. book 1. The alchymists; or, searchers for the philosopher's stone and the water of life -- book 2. Fortune telling -- book 3. The magnetisers.
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Impostors and imposture.
Swindlers and swindling.
Occultism
Delusions.
Social psychology.