Demonologia
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- or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predestination, predictions, quackery, relics, saints, second sight, signs before death, sorcery, spirits, salamanders, spells, talismans, traditions, trials, &c. witches, witchcraft, &c. &c. the whole unfolding many singular phenomena in the page of nature
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1. Front matter2. DEMONOLOGIA; OR, NATURAL KNOWLEDGE REVEALED;3. PREFACE.4. OBSERVATIONS ON ANCIENT AND5. PROOFS AND TRIALS OF GUILT IN SUPERSTITIOUS AGES.6. ASTROLOGY, &c.7. PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY, &c.8. NATURAL ASTROLOGY9. JUDICIAL OR JUDICIARY ASTROLOGY10. ON THE ORIGIN AND IMAGINARY EFFICACY OF AMULETS & CHARMS,11. HISTORY OF POPULAR MEDICINES, ETC.—HOW INFLUENCED BY SUPERSTITION.12. ALCHYMY[22].13. ALKAHEST, OR ALCAHEST,14. MAGICIAN.15. MAGI, OR MAGEANS,16. MAGIC, MAGIA, MATEIA,17. PREDICTION.18. FATALISM, OR PREDESTINATION.19. DIVINATION,20. ORACLE.21. OURAN, OR URAN, SOANGUS,22. DREAMS, &c.23. FATE.24. PHYSIOGNOMY[37], ΦΥΣΙΟΓΝΩΜΙΑ.25. APPARITIONS.26. DEUTEROSCOPIA, OR SECOND-SIGHT.27. WITCHES, WITCHCRAFT, WIZARDS, &c.28. WITCHES, WITCHCRAFT, WIZARDS, &c. (continued 2)29. SORCERY.30. SORTES.—SORTILEGIUM.31. SIBYLS.32. TALISMANS.33. PHILTERS, CHARMS, &c.34. HELL,35. INQUISITION.36. DEMON,37. DEMONOLOGY.38. THE DEMON OF JEDBURGH.39. THE GHOST OF JULIUS CÆSAR.40. GIPSIES—EGYPTIANS.41. JUGGLERS, THEIR ORIGIN, EXPLOITS, &c.42. LEGENDS, &c. MIRACLES, &c.43. MONKS AND FRIARS.—SAINTS AND HERMITS.44. HOLY RELIQUE-MANIA.