Bygone Beliefs Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways Of Thought
by H. Stanley Redgrove
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About this eBook
- Author
- Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley), 1887-1943
- Title
- Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
- Credits
- Produced by Charles Keller, and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Alchemy
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1271
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1271
- Release Date
- April 1, 1998
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BYGONE BELIEFS BEING A SERIES OF EXCURSIONS IN THE BYWAYS OF THOUGHT
- 2.By H. Stanley Redgrove — TO MY WIFE
- 3.PREFACE — BYGONE BELIEFS
- 4.I. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDAEVAL THOUGHT
- 5.II. PYTHAGORAS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY
- 6.III. MEDICINE AND MAGIC
- 7.IV. SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BIRDS
- 8.V. THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY: A CURIOUS MEDICAL SUPERSTITION
- 9.VI. THE BELIEF IN TALISMANS
- 10.VII. CEREMONIAL MAGIC IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
- 11.VIII. ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM
- 12.IX. THE QUEST OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
- 13.X. THE PHALLIC ELEMENT IN ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE
- 14.XI. ROGER BACON: AN APPRECIATION
- 15.XII. THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS
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