num_pages: 551
description: This fascinating volume holds up to the stern light of rational examination hundreds of the most persistent illusions and delusions of mankind. It shows again and again how the most apparently convincing evidence for supernatural and occult phenomena vanishes into an insubstantial tissue of trickery and delusion whenever it is closely examined -- and in spite of this, how the belief in the occult still flourishes, even in some of our most respected institutions of higher learning, a must read...
language: English
title: Occult and Supernatural Phenomena
publisher: Dover Pubns