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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1

Author
Charles Mackay
Categories
Alchemy, Impostors and imposture, Occultism, Social psychology, Swindlers and swindling
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Excerpt

THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME
THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
THE TULIPOMANIA
RELICS
MODERN PROPHECIES
POPULAR ADMIRATION FOR GREAT THIEVES
INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD
DUELS AND 0RDEALS
THE LOVE OF THE MARVELOUS AND THE DISBELIEF OF THE TRUE
POPULAR FOLLIES IN GREAT CITIES
THE O. P. MANIA
THE THUGS, OR PHANSIGARS


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