Extraordinary popular delusions
By: by Charles Mackay
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 21845-21853
Publisher: Lindsay and Blakiston
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Impostors and imposture; Swindlers and swindling; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Delusions; Social psychology
Work titles: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
Notes: Vol. 2 has title page: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references

Sabin 43357

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1996. 9 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 21845-21853)

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Table of contents: title: 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 beards. Duels and ordeals. Popular follies in great cities. The O.P. Mania. The thugs and phansigars. Witch mania. The slow poisoners; title: v. 2. The Crusades. Haunted houses. Philosophical delusions: Introductory remarks. The alchemists, or Searchers for the philosopher's stone and the water of life. Fortune-telling. The magnetisers