Bygone Beliefs
- Subtitle
- Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. I. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDAEVAL THOUGHT4. II. PYTHAGORAS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY5. III. MEDICINE AND MAGIC6. IV. SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BIRDS7. V. THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY: A CURIOUS MEDICAL SUPERSTITION8. VI. THE BELIEF IN TALISMANS9. VII. CEREMONIAL MAGIC IN THEORY AND PRACTICE10. VIII. ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM11. IX. THE QUEST OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE12. X. THE PHALLIC ELEMENT IN ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE13. XI. ROGER BACON: AN APPRECIATION14. XII. THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS