Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume II by Charles Mackay is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

In the twenty-first year of Henry VIII. an act was passed, rendering it high-treason: those found guilty of it, were to be boiled to death.

Unhappily, however, for the parish clerk, the ghost was induced to make some promises which were the means of utterly destroying its reputation.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume III by Charles Mackay is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive.

The genius of the place defend me!"—Ben Jonson's Masqu

The history of the delusion appears, in a manner, lost from this time till the eighth century, when it appeared amongst the Arabians.

This alchymist has left a more distinguished reputation.

An undue opinion of our own importance in the scale of creation is at the bottom of all our unwarrantable notions in this respect.

Paracelsus boasted of being able to transplant diseases from the human frame into the earth, by means of the magnet.

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