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ABGARUS, Prince of Edessa, i. 315.
Abnormal somnambulism, nature of,
i. 81.

Abodes of the Sibyls, i. 429.
Abracadabra, the talisman of Serenus
Sammonicus, i. 121.

Abraxes, or carved stones of the early
ages, i. 262.

Abuse of magic by the Romans, i. 435.
Account of the fakeer buried alive at
Lahore, ii. 436.

Accusations of the witch-hammerers,
ii. 165.

Aconite, Van Helmont's experiment
with, ii. 251.

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Esculapius, miracles performed by, i. priests of Egypt, i. 240.

360.

staff of, i. 362.

temples of, i. 363.
African witches, ii. 475.
Agostine Fosari, somnambulism of, ii.
440.

Agrigentum, Empedocles of, a cele-
brated Pythagorean, i. 402.
Agrippa (H. C.) on the influence of
the stars, ii. 255.

-on the nature of matter, ii. 254.
Allegorical visions, i. 50.

Allusions in the Bible to magnetism

and somnambulism, i. 251.
Ammonius Saccas, founder of the
New-Platonists, i. 444.
Amphiaraus,cle of, i. 373.

use of the inagnet, ii. 35.
-use of narcotics, ii. 488.
Ancients, magnetism understood by
the, ii. 68.

Angel, meaning of the word in the
Old Testament, ii. 132.
Angels and spirits, ii. 133.
Animal magnetism as defined by
Mesmer, ii. 330.
-considered, ii. 329.
Anthropological digression on Chris-
tianity, i. 324-335.

Antidotes, Kircher's, against poisonous
animals, ii. 270.

Antoinette Bourignon, apparitions of,
ii. 223.

Antiquity of the English deasil, ii. 182.

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Apollonius of Tyana, miraculous cures
of, i. 405.

philosophy of, i. 407.

his distinction between magic and
sorcery, i. 406.
Apostles, miracles of the, i. 317.
Apparitions, remarkable accounts of:-
Jane Leads, apparition of, ii. 224.
Ghosts of the slain at the battle of
Marathon, ii. 341.

Königsberg professor, the, ii. 341.
Dr. Scott and the title-deed, ii. 345.
Apparition seen by Lady Pennyman
and Mrs. Atkins, ii. 351.

Story of Sir Charles Lee's daughter,
ii. 356.

Dorothy Dingley, apparition of, ii. 358.
Lord Tyrone, apparition of, to Lady
Beresford, ii. 363.

Two apparitions to Mr. William
Lilly, ii. 369.

Mr. Booty and the ship's crew, ii. 373.
Edward Avon, apparition of, to
Thomas Goddard, ii. 374.
Ghost seen by a Dutchman at Wood-
bridge, in Suffolk, ii. 378.
Apparition seen by Sir John Sherbroke
and General Wynyard, ii. 380.
Miss Pringle, apparition of, ii. 384.
Apparition seen by Samuel Wallace,
ii. 385.

Apparition of Dr. Donne's wife, ii. 387.
Appendix by the Editor, ii. 341-518.
Arabic learning brought to Europe by
the Saracens, ii. 93.
Arabs, magic among the, i. 229.
Aristides, dreams and visions of, i. 389.
-, magnetic nature of, i. 391.

his mention of divine sleep, i. 366.
on the Grecian oracles, i. 384.
Aristotle's theory of dreams, i. 404.
treatise on dreams, i. 130.

Arrows, divination by means of, ii. 453.
Asia, magic originated in, i. 187.
Atmosphere, opinions of the ancients
regarding the, i. 149.

BABYLON, dreams first cultivated in
Asia at, i. 224.

Bacchus, significance of the mythic,
ii. 61.

Balaam, visions and prophecies of, i.
288.

Baptista Van Helmont, extracts from
the works of, ii. 242-253.
-on magnetism, ii. 333.
Basilakaus's prophecy fulfilled, i. 80.
Bede's (the Venerable) account of

sorcerers in the British Isles, ii. 103.
Becker and Thomasins successfully

oppose witchcraft, ii. 191.
Bed, Graham's magnetic, ii. 260.
Belief of the Greeks in demonology,
i. 351.

Bells and bowls mentioned in the
Mosaic law, i. 379.

Bible, magnetic records in the, i. 281.
Satan of the, ii. 131.
Biblical accounts of magnetism and
somnambulism, i. 251.

- laws against magic, i. 20.

- view of Egyptian magic, i. 232.
Birds, divination by means of, ii. 459.
Black magic of the early times, i. 4.
Bleeding wounds, i. 102.

Bodily suffering, insensibility to, ii.
213.

Böhme on God and the soul, &c. ii.
321-328.

- on the Divine manifestation, &c.
ii. 304.

- on the constellations, ii. 316.
-on the creation of the world, ii.
308.

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Arras, witch prosecutions at, ii. 176- Book of the Secret, the, on the means

178.

of producing visions, i. 205.

Books of Numa, destruction of the, Compass, origin of the discovery of

ii. 11.

Brahma-Atma, i. 205.

Brahma in the heart, i. 207.

CABBALAH, or Jewish philosophy,
inquiries regarding the, i. 7.

teachings of the, respecting women,
i. 14.

Cataleptic case described by Sauvages,
i. 72.

Cats, infernal magical sacrifice of, ii.
102, 105.

Celebrated oracles amongst the Fathers
of the Church, i. 430.

Cellini's vision during a fever, i. 77.
China, the magnet worshipped in, ii.
36.

Chinese, magic among the, i. 211.
Christian ages, revival of visions in
the, i. 33.

Christianity and Germanity, ii. 75.

the, ii. 331.

Constantine the Great's speech on the
sibyls, i. 433.

Countess M., magnetic experiments
upon, i. 200.

Count Cagliostro's magnetic experi-
ments, ii. 281.

Creation, Mosaic account of the, i. 275.
Cratippus on the magic influences, i.
126.

Creuzer on symbolic poetry, ii. 6.
Cures by the use of the magnet, early
records of, ii. 334.

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of Apollonius of Tyana, i. 405.
- of Esculapius related by Aristides,
i. 387.

performed by Graterakes, ii. 261.

DACTYLS, the wonder-working, ii. 65.
Daniel, vision of, i. 303.

Deasil, antiquity of the, ii. 182.

-, anthropological digression regard-Death foretold by an apparition, ii. 366.

ing, i. 324-335.

-, sophisms mingled with, i. 309.

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the great miracle of, i. 339.
Christ prophesied by the sibyls, i. 430.
the great prophet and healer, i.
337.

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the true exorcist, i. 341.
Chronic convulsions, singular treat-
ment of persons afflicted with, i. 74.
Chrysippus on soothsaying and dreams,
i. 126.

Cicero on the magic art, i. 126.
- on natural soothsaying, i. 62.
on the prognostications of the
sibyls, i. 431.

on soothsaying, i. 57.
Cimbrians, prophetic women of the,
ii. 91.

De la Harpe's account of a singular
prediction, ii. 445.

Delphian temple, inscriptions on the
doors of the, i. 418.

Democritos's reasoning agencies, i. 127.
Demonology, belief of the Greeks in,
i. 351.

of James the First, ii. 181.
Demons, belief of the early Christians-
in, ii. 139.

Denon on Egyptian symbols, i. 264.
Deserts conducive to visions, i. 179.
Devil, first trace of a formal compact
with the, ii. 142.

-, the, of the fifteenth century, ii.
147.

Devils, Christ the great caster-out of,

ii. 135.

Clairvoyance the highest state of som-Devs, the, of ancient Persia, i. 222.

nambulism, i. 28.

Claudian's idyls on the magnet, ii. 27.
Cledonism, or divination from words,

ii. 454.

Cock, divination by means of a, 453.
Compass, doubts regarding the first
discovery of the, ii. 333.

Dietary regulations of the Greek priest-
hood, i. 368.

Diodorus on the dreams of Isis, i. 231.
Dioscuri, or the Sons of Heaven, ii. 23.
Discovery of the compass, origin of
the, ii. 331.

Disciples of Paracelsus, ii. 271-273.

Disciples of Pythagoras, habits of the, | Druids, Pomponius on the wisdom of

i. 398.

Divination by signs, Iamblichus on, i.

454.

Divinations:-Artificial divination, ii.

the, ii. 86.

Drummer of Tedworth, the, ii. 396.
Dryden and his son's nativity, ii. 450.
Dualists, antiquity of the, i. 141.

of, in the authors of antiquity, i. 63.

452; natural divination, ib.; axi-Dying predictions, frequent mention
nomancy, 453; alectoromantia, ib. ;
arithmonancy, ib.; belomancy, ib. ;
cleoromancy, 454; cledonism, ib.;
coscinomancy, 455; capnonancy,

EARLIEST attempts to explain magic,
i. 138.

ib.; catoptromancy, ib.; chiro- Early Christians' belief in demons,
mancy, 456; dactyliomancy, ib.;

ii. 139.

East of Europe, vampirism in the, ii.

185.

extispicium, ib.; gastromancy, 457;-, magic among the, ii. 81.
geomancy, ib.; hydromancy, ib.;
oneirocritica, 458; onomancy, or
onomamancy, ib.; onycomancy,
459; ornithomancy, ib.; pyro-

Eberhart's views of the sources of
magical art, i. 4.

mancy, 460; psychomancy, or scio-Ecstasy, as defined by ancient writers,
mancy, ib.; rhabdomancy, ib.

i. 85.

Divining rod, experiments with the,, various descriptions of, i. 86.

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Dreams, accounts of remarkable:
Gennadius, i. 55.; Aristides, 389;
Dr. Doddridge, ii. 410; Nicholas
Wotton, 412; Captain Rogers, 414;

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.
Egyptian belief, leading features of,
i. 269.

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William Howitt, 416; Edmund-symbols explained by Denon, i. 264.
Halley, 416; Rev. Joseph Wilkin, Egyptians, magic among the, i. 231.
417; Awde, 417; Lord Lyttleton, -, magnetic practices among the,
419.
i. 261.

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materialism known among the, i.

141.

mysterious monuments of the,
i. 254.

Elements of Montanism, ii. 82.
Elfish fairies of Scotland, ii. 113.
Elijah and Elisha, prophecies of, i. 292.
Elves, white and black, ii. 109.
Emmerich, the bleeding wounds of
Anna Katharina, i. 102.

Empedocles the Pythagorean, i. 402.
Enlightenment wars against witchcraft,
ii. 189.

Epirus, oak of Dodona in, i. 378.
Etymology of the word "Obi," ii. 478.
Europe, witch-mountains of, ii. 195.
Execution of Maria Renata, ii. 183.
Exorcism, mention of by ancient
writers, i. 120.
Experiment with the root of aconite,
ii. 251.

with the divining-rod, ii. 461.
Extract from the Upanischad, i. 206.
Extraordinary magnetic cures of Gass-
ner, ii. 277.

FABLE regarding the ring of Gyges,
ii. 487.

Faith and magnetism, Paracelsus on,
ii. 241.

Fakirs, Zimmermann on the Indian,
i. 205.

Fathers of the Church, celebrated
oracles among the, 430.

- divinations condemned by the, ii.
461.

Finger-nails, divination by means of
the, ii. 459.

Fire, divination by means of, ii. 460.
Flying magicians, &c., early mention
of, ii. 143.

Forbes's account of Brahminical pro-
phecies, i. 208.

Foreign sources of the Greek myths,
ii. 55-60.

Fox family, the, and spirit-rapping,
ii. 491.

Fulfilment of a Brahmin's predictions,
i. 208.

GALEN'S predictions in connection
with diseases, i. 128.
Gassner's extraordinary cures, ii. 277.
magnetic operations, ii. 274.
Gennadius, dream of, related by St.
Augustin, i. 55.

Geomancy, various kinds of, ii. 457.
German emperors, magic practised by
the, ii. 96.

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HAMBERGER on the Greek mysteries,
i. 346.

Hand of Isis, symbolic meaning of
the, i. 258.

use of the, in magnetism, ii. 335.
Hands, divination by the lines of the,
ii. 456.

Hauf's idea of Realism, i. 159.
Haunted houses, remarkable accounts
regarding :-

Correspondence about the Wesleys'
house, 388-396.

House near Bow haunted by demons,
&c., ii. 407.

Mr. Jermin's story of a haunted
house, ii. 409.
sooth-Healing art, the, among the heathens,
ii. 205.

Germanity and Christianity, ii. 75.
Germans, magic of the, ii. 73.
-, reliance of the ancient, in
saying, i. 59.

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