Disciples of Pythagoras, habits of the,
i. 398.
Divination by signs, Iamblichus on, i.
454.
Druids, Pomponius on the wisdom of
the, ii. 86.
Drummer of Tedworth, the, ii. 396.
Dryden and his son's nativity, ii. 450.
Dualists, antiquity of the, i. 141.
Dying predictions, frequent mention
of, in the authors of antiquity, i. 63.
Divinations:-Artificial divination, ii.
452; natural divination, ib.; axi-
nomancy, 453; alectoromantia, ib. ;
arithmonancy, ib.; belomancy, ib.;
cleoromancy, 454; cledonism, ib.; EARLIEST attempts to explain magic,
Coscinomancy, 455; capnonancy, i. 138.
ib.; catoptromancy, ib.; chiro-Early Christians' belief in demons,
mancy, 456; dactyliomancy, ib.;
extispicium, ib.; gastromancy, 457;
geomancy, ib.; hydromancy, ib.; East of Europe, vampirism in the, ii.
oneirocritica, 458; onomancy, or
onomamancy, ib.; onycomancy, Eberhart's views of the sources of
459; ornithomancy, ib.; pyro-
mancy, 460; psychomancy, or scio-Ecstasy, as defined by ancient writers,
mancy, ib.; rhabdomancy, ib.
Divining rod, experiments with the,
ii. 461.
Doctrine of Paracelsus, ii. 230.
Doctrines of Jacob Böhme, ii. 301.
Dodona, oracle of Jupiter at, i. 375.
Dodonian priestesses, the, i. 381.
- prophecies of, i. 382.
"Doubles," erroneous notion regard-
ing, i. 67.
Dreams, accounts of remarkable :-
Gennadius, i. 55.; Aristides, 389;
Dr. Doddridge, ii. 410; Nicholas
Wotton, 412; Captain Rogers, 414;
—, various descriptions of, i. 86.
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.
William Howitt, 416; Edmund-symbols explained by Denon, i. 264.
Egyptians, magic among the, i. 231.
-, magnetic practices among the,
i. 261.
Halley, 416; Rev. Joseph Wilkin,
417; Awde, 417; Lord Lyttleton,
419.
death of parents confirmed by, ii.
421.
anecdotes concerning, i. 34.
Aristotle's theory of, i. 404.
first cultivated in Asia, at Babylon,
i. 224.
Homer on double, i. 55.
mentioned in the Old Covenant,
i. 273.
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.
Ghost stories, ii. 341-388.
Good and evil spirits, ii. 129.
Gospels, miracles recorded in the,
i. 310.
Graham's magnetic bed, ii. 261.
Graterakes' wonderful cures, ii. 261.
Great miracle of Christianity, the,
i. 339.
with the divining-rod, ii. 461.
Extract from the Upanischad, i. 206.
Extraordinary magnetic cures of Gass-Greece a living magic, i. 347.
Grecian oracles described by Aristides,
i. 384.
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.
Greek and German mythology, the,
Greek authors on the antiquity of the
myths, ii. 17.
mysteries, Hamberger on the,
i. 346.
myths, foreign sources of the,
ii. 55-60.
priesthood, dietary regulations of
the, i. 368.
-> the healing art connected with
the, i. 357.
Greeks, ecstatic visions rare among
the, i. 32.
faith of the ancient, in soothsay-
ing, i. 59.
-, magic among the, i. 343.
Forbes's account of Brahminical pro- Grimm on the German elves, ii.
phecies, i. 208.
on the wishing-rod, ii. 47.
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.
Healing art, the, among the heathens,
ii. 205.
Healing art connected with the Greek | Inspirations and visions of the saints,
priesthood, i. 357.
Healing by the touch, i. 109.
Health restored by an apparition, ii.
386.
Heathens, the healing art among the,
ii. 205.
Hercules, identity of, with magnetism,
ii. 27.
the myth of, ii. 25.
Hereditary priesthood of ancient
Greece, i. 367.
Hermes, great significance of the god,
ii. 43.
the magic-staff of, ii. 45.
Intermittent fevers, visions during,
i. 76.
Iron betrothal rings in Pliny's time,
ii. 33.
Iron-stone, magnetic properties of, ii.
331.
Isis, Diodorus on the dreams of, i.232.
Israelites, magic among the, i. 272,
289, 319.
Israel, spiritual destiny of, i. 295.
|—, the prophets of, i. 299.
JEWESS, Molitor's story of a, i. 21.
Hexenhammer, description of the Judge Edmonds on the "Rochester
work called, ii. 159.
Hippocrates on dreams, i. 128.
History of the Sibyls, i. 423.
of the Sibyllinic books, i. 427.
of magnetism, the, ii. 338.
Hodges, Governor, fulfilment of pro-
phecies regarding, i. 209.
Homer on double dreams, i. 55.
Hooks and rings used for magnetic
purposes, ii. 33.
Horns and wings, symbolic, explained,
ii. 71.
Horst's account of the witch prosecu-
tions at Arras, ii. 176-178.
IAMBLICHUS on divine inspiration,
i. 453.
on the force of prayer, i. 456.
answer of, to Porphyrius, i. 449.
Idaic dactyls, Schweigger on the, ii. 28.
Identity of magnetism and Hercules,
ii. 25, 27.
Imagination, power of the, i. 101.
Increasing ignorance of the Middle
Ages, ii. 123.
Indian fakirs, Zimmermann on the,
i. 205.
seers, visions of, i. 203.
Influence of the stars, Agrippa on the,
ii. 255.
Inscriptions on the doors of the
Delphian temple, i. 418.
Insensibility to bodily suffering, ii.
213.
knockings," ii. 495.
Julius Hamberger on the nations of
antiquity, i. 42.
Justin Martyr on the Sibyls, i. 432.
KETTLE-DRUM, Laplander's magical,
ii. 98.
Key to mythical wisdom, the, ii. 19.
King James's Demonology, ii. 181.
Kircher's antidotes against poisonous
animals, ii. 270.
just ideas of magnetism, ii. 265.
upon natural instincts, ii. 267.
Kischuph, the, or higher magical in-
fluence, i. 10.
Kyphi, soothing effects of the, i. 419.
LADY Alice Kyteler, ii. 465.
Laplanders, magic of the, ii. 99.
-, magic kettle-drum of the, ii. 98.
Language of dreams remarkable, i. 36.
Laughing-fits, ii. 217.
Laurel, the, sacred to Apollo and
Esculapius, i. 372.
Laws of Manu analysed, i. 194.
Letter of Porphyrius to Anebo, i. 447.
Letters, divination by the aid of, ii.
458.
Life-magnetism and mesmerism, mean-
ing of the terms, ii. 330.
Loadstone described by Lucretius, ii. 25.
magnetic properties of, ii. 331.
Lucretius's remarkable verses on mag-
netism, ii. 32.
MADNESS of the ancient poets, i. 879.
Socrates on, i. 402..
Maid of Orleans, trial and execution
of the, ii. 175.
Magi, antiquity of the, i. 2.
Magic, abuse of, by the Romans, i.
435.
among the Arabs, i. 229.
among the Chinese, i. 211.
among the early Christians, ii. 81.
among the Egyptians, i. 231.
among the Greeks, i. 343.
among the Israelites, i. 272, 289,
319.
among the Orientals, i. 172.
among the Romans, i. 420.
attributed to women by the earliest
antiquity, ii. 193.
derivation of the word, i. 1.
earliest attempts to explain, i. 138.
herbs, trees, &c. ii. 201.
in mythology, ii. 63.
in Pagan and Christian faith, ii.
119.
in the mythology, i. 442.
Jacob Böhme on, ii. 303.
of the ancient Germans, ii. 85.
of the Germans, ii. 73.
of the Laplanders, ii. 99.
of the Middle Ages, ii. 117.
of Scandinavia, ii. 97.
—, origination of, in Asia, i. 187.
- power, Van Helmont on, ii. 245.
practised by the German emperors,
ii. 96.
sight, notions regarding, i. 10.
staff of Hermes, the, ii. 45.
theoretical views of the ancients
regarding, i. 124.
Magical cures mentioned in the New
Covenant, i. 307.
ecstasy and true inspiration, i. 89.
effects of stones, ii. 69.
fires, ii. 30.
- influences, i. 167.
- soothsaying, Cicero's observations
on, i. 134.
Magnet, ancient use of the, ii. 35.
Claudian's idyls on the, ii. 27.
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and miracles, i. 335.
ancient and modern, history of,
ii. 338.
an historical fact, ii. 339.
Egyptian statues relating to, i. 267.
explains the Egyptian Abraxes, i.
262.
Kircher's just ideas of, ii. 265.
Maxwell's views on, ii. 257-260.
of music, Kircher on the, ii. 268.
phenomena produced by, ii. 336.
practised in the temples of Isis,
&c. i. 260.
-, &c., Robert Fludd's views on, ii.
256.
understood by the ancients, ii. 68.
Magnetizing by the hands or eyes, ii.
336.
Malleus Maleficarum, publication of,
ii. 157.
Manu, laws of, described, i. 194.
Maria Renata, execution of, at Clarus,
ii. 183.
Marlborough, witch trial at, ii. 181.
Marsi, the, skilful in the art of
sorcery, i. 421.
Mary Goffe, trance of, ii. 434.
Materialism current among the Egyp- | Mystical theories in Matikon, i. 276.
Matikon, theories of a mystical work
entitled, i. 276.
Matter, Agrippa on the nature of, ii. 254.
Maxwell's views on magnetism, ii.
257-260.
Melampus, celebrated cures of, i. 360.
Mesmer, Dr., on animal magnetism,
ii. 330.
Mesmeric influence of magnetism, ii.
335.
Mesmerism, so called after the dis-
coverer of animal magnetism, ii. 30.
Middle Ages, amulets and charms of
the, ii. 95.
magic of the, ii. 117.
Mind, the spiritual in the, ii. 137.
Mineral and animal magnetism, ana-
logy between, ii. 331.
Minerva, mythological parentage of,
ii. 49.
Miracles and magnetism, i. 335.
of the Apostles, i. 317.
performed by Esculapius, i. 360.
recorded in the Gospels, i. 310.
Mirror, divination by means of a,
455.
Miss Rachel Baker, the sleeping
preacher, ii. 442.
Molitor's researches into the Cabbalah,
i. 8.
story of a Jewess, i. 21.
Mystic symbols in Nature, ii. 29.
Myth, great antiquity of the, ii. 9.
of Hercules, ii. 25; explained, ii.
67.
- physical formation of the, ii. 17.
Mythical wisdom, the key to the, ii. 19.
Mythologic fable, symbolic meaning
of, ii. 39.
Mythological parentage of Minerva,
ii. 49.
Mythology, magic in the, i. 442.
—, on ragic in, ii. 63.
perfected before yonreía existed,
i. 349.
the Greek and German, ii. 5.
Monen, or computation of time, i. 16. Nicolaus de la Flüe, extraordinary
Montanism, elements of, ii. 82.
Montanists and Paulists, ii. 83.
Montezuma's sister, supposed death
of, i. 78.
Moral writings of Plutarch, i. 408-
Mora, witch-trial at, ii. 179.
Mosaic account of the creation, i. 275.
Murder discovered by an apparition,
ii. 343-345.
prevented by an apparition, ii. 370.
Musæus and Orpheus, i. 353.
Mysteries, ancient Egyptian, i. 237.
Mysterious monuments of the Egyp-
tians, i. 254.
Northern mythology the work of the
Scalds, ii. 108.
Numa, destruction of the books of, ii.
11.
Numeral 4, the, sacred to the Pytha-
goreans, i. 395.
Numerical theory, as described in the
Magicon, i. 394, 396.
Numerals, Plato's views regarding, i.
399.
OAK of Dodona, in Epirns, i. 378.
Obeah, or African witchcraft, ii. 475.
"Obi," etymology of the word, ii. 478.
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