Nonfiction · 1920
Bygone Beliefs
Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
Bygone Beliefs, first published in 1920, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
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- Note
- Preface
- I — Some Characteristics of Medaeval Thought
- II — Pythagoras and His Philosophy
- III — Medicine and Magic
- IV — Superstitions Concerning Birds
- V — The Powder of Sympathy: A Curious Medical Superstition
- VI — The Belief in Talismans
- VII — Ceremonial Magic in Theory and Practice
- VIII — Architectural Symbolism
- IX — The Quest of the Philosopher’s Stone
- X — The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine
- XI — Roger Bacon: An Appreciation
- XII — The Cambridge Platonists
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