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HISTOEY OF MAGIC.
BY
JOSEPH ENNEMOSEE.
TEAKSLATED FEOil THE GEE^lIAX
BY WILLIAM HOWITT.
TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX OP THE MOST EEMAEKABLE AND BEST AUTHENTICATED STOEIES OF
APPARITIOT^S, DEEAMS, SECOl^D SIGHT, SOMIS^AMBTJLIST^T,
PRLDICTIONS. DIYINATIOIf, WITCH.CEAPT, VAMPIEES, FAIEIES,
TABLE-TURFIIs'G, AlfD SPIRIT- EAPPI>'G.
SELECTED BY
MARY HOWITT,
TN TWO VOLUMES, Vol. II.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COYENT GARDEN.
MDCCCLIV.
JHE INSTITUTE OF MEDIAEVAL STUDIES
10 ELr/iSLEY PLACE
TOR OK TO 6, CANADA,
DEC -11931
CONTENTS.
VOL. II.
Oy IMagic in Mythology.
Natural Science tlie Origin of Mytliology
G-reek and German Mythology .
Symbolism
Vast Antiquity of the Myth
On Magic in Mythology
The Wisdom of the Remotest Antiquity
Ou Magic in Mythology — (continued)
Mythical Signs and their Magical Relations
The Key to Mythical Wisdom
The Dioscuri
The Myth of Hercules
Magnetic and Meteoi'ic Stones
Mystic Symbols in IS'atm-e
Vestal Fires ....
Samothracian Wings ; Iron Rings, etc.
Ancient Use of of the Magnet
Wonderful Clairvoyant Vision of Mysteries
Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fable
The Great Significance of Hermes
Symbolic Mythological Characters
The Significance of the Mythic Baccbus
The Wonder-working Dactyls
The Myth of Hercules Explained
Magical Effects of Stones
The Symbolic Horns and Wings Explained
The Magic of the G-eemans.
Magic among the Germans .
Magic among the Early Christians
Magic of the Ancient Germans and of the
The Salic Law against Witchcraft
Amulets and Charms of the Middle Ages
Magic of Scandinavia .
The Magic of the Laplanders
Pigmies, etc.
Magic of the Middle Ages .
The Witch-hammer
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COS^TENTS.
Witch-prosecutions
Good and Evil Spirits
The Early Christian Belief in Demons .
Sti-xiggle of Christianity and Heathenism .
Witch ^Metamorphoses
The Devil of the Fifteenth Centmy
Witch Persecution of the Fifteenth Century
The Sorcery-bull of Pope Innocent YIII. .
True Knowledge the Opponent of Witchcraft
Witch Trials
Tlie Cooking-witches
Witch Mountains of Europe
Magic Herbs, Trees, &c.
Superstitions
The Heahng Ai-t .
Sympathetic Superstition?
Sympathetic Cures
Pins and Needles
Laughing-fits
White Magic and Truth
Mystic DocTRI^-ES, a^d EycEATorES after a Philosophicai.
ELUCIDATIOy OF THE 3IaGIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
Theophrastus Paracelsus Paracelsus on the Magnet Baptista Van Helmont Heniy Cornelius Agrippa Eobert Fludd