INDEX. ABGARUS, Prince of Edessa, i. 315. Abodes of the Sibyls, i. 429. Abraxes, or carved stones of the early Abuse of magic by the Romans, i. 435. Accusations of the witch-hammerers, Aconite, Van Helmont's experiment - Esculapius, miracles performed by, i. priests of Egypt, i. 240. 360. staff of, i. 362. temples of, i. 363. Agrigentum, Empedocles of, a cele- -on the nature of matter, ii. 254. Allusions in the Bible to magnetism and somnambulism, i. 251. use of the inagnet, ii. 35. Angel, meaning of the word in the Antidotes, Kircher's, against poisonous Antoinette Bourignon, apparitions of, Antiquity of the English deasil, ii. 182. Apollonius of Tyana, miraculous cures philosophy of, i. 407. his distinction between magic and Königsberg professor, the, ii. 341. Story of Sir Charles Lee's daughter, Dorothy Dingley, apparition of, ii. 358. Two apparitions to Mr. William Mr. Booty and the ship's crew, ii. 373. Apparition of Dr. Donne's wife, ii. 387. his mention of divine sleep, i. 366. Arrows, divination by means of, ii. 453. BABYLON, dreams first cultivated in Bacchus, significance of the mythic, Balaam, visions and prophecies of, i. Baptista Van Helmont, extracts from sorcerers in the British Isles, ii. 103. oppose witchcraft, ii. 191. Bells and bowls mentioned in the Bible, magnetic records in the, i. 281. - laws against magic, i. 20. - view of Egyptian magic, i. 232. Bodily suffering, insensibility to, ii. Böhme on God and the soul, &c. ii. - on the Divine manifestation, &c. - on the constellations, ii. 316. 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, teachings of the, respecting women, Cataleptic case described by Sauvages, Cats, infernal magical sacrifice of, ii. Celebrated oracles amongst the Fathers Cellini's vision during a fever, i. 77. Chinese, magic among the, i. 211. Christianity and Germanity, ii. 75. the, ii. 331. Constantine the Great's speech on the Countess M., magnetic experiments Count Cagliostro's magnetic experi- Creation, Mosaic account of the, i. 275. Creuzer on symbolic poetry, ii. 6. of Apollonius of Tyana, i. 405. performed by Graterakes, ii. 261. DACTYLS, the wonder-working, ii. 65. 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. - the great miracle of, i. 339. - the true exorcist, i. 341. Cicero on the magic art, i. 126. on soothsaying, i. 57. De la Harpe's account of a singular Delphian temple, inscriptions on the Democritos's reasoning agencies, i. 127. of James the First, ii. 181. Denon on Egyptian symbols, i. 264. -, the, of the fifteenth century, ii. 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. ii. 454. Cock, divination by means of a, 453. Dietary regulations of the Greek priest- Diodorus on the dreams of Isis, i. 231. 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. of, in the authors of antiquity, i. 63. 452; natural divination, ib.; axi-Dying predictions, frequent mention EARLIEST attempts to explain magic, ib.; catoptromancy, ib.; chiro- Early Christians' belief in demons, ii. 139. East of Europe, vampirism in the, ii. 185. extispicium, ib.; gastromancy, 457;-, magic among the, ii. 81. Eberhart's views of the sources of mancy, 460; psychomancy, or scio-Ecstasy, as defined by ancient writers, i. 85. Divining rod, experiments with the,, various descriptions of, i. 86. Dreams, accounts of remarkable: Ecstatic and inspired visions, i. 25. Egg, the Orphean, i. 392. Egypt, celebrated temples in, i. 244. William Howitt, 416; Edmund-symbols explained by Denon, i. 264. materialism known among the, i. 141. mysterious monuments of the, Elements of Montanism, ii. 82. Empedocles the Pythagorean, i. 402. Epirus, oak of Dodona in, i. 378. with the divining-rod, ii. 461. FABLE regarding the ring of Gyges, Faith and magnetism, Paracelsus on, Fakirs, Zimmermann on the Indian, Fathers of the Church, celebrated - divinations condemned by the, ii. Finger-nails, divination by means of Fire, divination by means of, ii. 460. Forbes's account of Brahminical pro- Foreign sources of the Greek myths, Fox family, the, and spirit-rapping, Fulfilment of a Brahmin's predictions, GALEN'S predictions in connection Geomancy, various kinds of, ii. 457. HAMBERGER on the Greek mysteries, Hand of Isis, symbolic meaning of use of the, in magnetism, ii. 335. Hauf's idea of Realism, i. 159. Correspondence about the Wesleys' House near Bow haunted by demons, Mr. Jermin's story of a haunted Germanity and Christianity, ii. 75. |