The History of Magic, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1854 - 454 pages The term 'magic' is very widely defined in this monumental study (it included the visions of Joan of Arc, for example) but the result is a fascinating compendium of abiding interest to followers of the unusual and bizarre. |
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... Aristotle declares more plainly , in his Disser- tation on Dreams , that all visions of the sleep are produced by the senses and the imagination . It would not have been difficult , starting from the ground which these acute ob- servers ...
... Aristotle declares more plainly , in his Disser- tation on Dreams , that all visions of the sleep are produced by the senses and the imagination . It would not have been difficult , starting from the ground which these acute ob- servers ...
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... Aristotle ) , or from the body and the organs of the senses ( alonikòr ) . For this purpose it is necessary to observe all phenomena connected with dreams . To these belong - the language of dreams , with its meaning ; the imagery ...
... Aristotle ) , or from the body and the organs of the senses ( alonikòr ) . For this purpose it is necessary to observe all phenomena connected with dreams . To these belong - the language of dreams , with its meaning ; the imagery ...
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... Aristotle considered soothsaying among persons of melancholy temperaments as a common circumstance ; and Cicero speaks of the divinations of madness and insanity and other diseases under the influence of which people are accustomed to ...
... Aristotle considered soothsaying among persons of melancholy temperaments as a common circumstance ; and Cicero speaks of the divinations of madness and insanity and other diseases under the influence of which people are accustomed to ...
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... Aristotle both give us views concerning sooth- saying . We have already seen that Plato supposes man to be possessed of an organ similar in construction to light , which , by its internal movements , produces the pictures of the ...
... Aristotle both give us views concerning sooth- saying . We have already seen that Plato supposes man to be possessed of an organ similar in construction to light , which , by its internal movements , produces the pictures of the ...
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... Aristotle further believes that " the impressions come from external objects through a peculiar emotion , and rejects , therefore , the idole of Democritus , which exist in the air , and from thence excite the imagination . " The re are ...
... Aristotle further believes that " the impressions come from external objects through a peculiar emotion , and rejects , therefore , the idole of Democritus , which exist in the air , and from thence excite the imagination . " The re are ...
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