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A philosophical essay on credulity and superstition

and also on animal fascination, or charming

Also known as A philosophical essay on credulity and superstition, and also on animal fascination, or charming

by Rufus Blakeman, Harry Houdini Collection DLC & Joseph Meredith Toner Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Description

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Mental origin of credulity and superstition, and its influence on ancient society -- Witchcraft -- Dreams -- Ghosts -- Ecstacy, trance, &c. -- Empiricism and quackery : credulity in medicine -- Homeopathy -- Mesmerism -- Essay on animal fascination, or charming

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Occultism and esotericism, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description.

    • “Witchcraft”· in description
  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the description.

    • “Mesmerism”· in description

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 4 editions; 1 cataloged here.

and also on animal fascination, or charming

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1849D. Appleton & co.; D. Appleton & Co.; New York : D. Appleton & Co. ; New Haven : S. Babcock; New York, D. Appleton & co.; New Haven, S. Babcock; S. BabcockEnglish—Public

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe11.capitolhill.archive.org
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Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL16612377W
Edition coverage
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