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Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
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Some characteristics of mediaeval thought; Pythagoras and his philosophy; Medicine and magic; Superstitions concerning birds; The powder of sympathy; a curious medical superstition; The belief in talismans ceremonial magic in theory and practice; Architectural symbolism; The quest of the philosopher's stone; The Phallic element in alchemical doctrine; Roger Bacon: an appreciation; The Cambridge Platonists.
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