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BYGONE BELIEFS: BEING A SERIES OF EXCURSIONS IN THE BYWAYS OF THOUGHT

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BY HERBERT STANLEY REDGROVE

Title Page Preface 1. Some Characteristics of Mediaeval Thought 2. Pythagoras and His Philosophy 3. Medicine and Magic 4. Superstitions Concerning Birds 5. The Powder of Sympathy: A Curious Medical Superstition 6. The Belief in Talismans 7. Ceremonial Magic in Theory and Practice 8. Architectural Symbolism 9. The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone 10. The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine 11. Roger Bacon: An Appreciation 12. The Cambridge Platonists