href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@26640@[email protected]#CHAPTER_XXVIII" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">CHAPTER XXVIII.—DOCTORS AND IMAGINATION.—​FIRING A JOKE OUT OF A CANNON.—​THE PARIS EYE WATER.—​MAJENDIE ON MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.—​OLD SANDS OF LIFE. 232

CHAPTER XXIX.—THE CONSUMPTIVE REMEDY.—​E. ANDREWS, M. D.—​BORN WITHOUT BIRTHRIGHTS.—​HASHEESH CANDY.—​ROBACK THE GREAT.—​A CONJUROR OPPOSED TO LYING. 237

CHAPTER XXX.—MONSIGNORE CRISTOFORO RISCHIO; OR IL CRESO, THE NOSTRUM-VENDER OF FLORENCE.—​A MODEL FOR OUR QUACK DOCTORS. 242

VI. HOAXES.

CHAPTER XXXI.—THE TWENTY-SEVENTH STREET GHOST.—​SPIRITS ON THE RAMPAGE. 251

CHAPTER XXXII.—THE MOON HOAX. 259

CHAPTER XXXIII.—THE MISCEGENATION HOAX.—​A GREAT LITERARY SELL.—​POLITICAL HUMBUGGING.—​TRICKS OF THE WIRE-PULLERS.—​MACHINERY EMPLOYED TO RENDER THE PAMPHLET NOTORIOUS.—​WHO WERE SOLD AND HOW IT WAS DONE. 273

VII. GHOSTS AND WITCHCRAFTS.

CHAPTER XXXIV.—HAUNTED HOUSES.—​A NIGHT SPENT ALONE WITH A GHOST.—​KIRBY THE ACTOR.—​COLT’S PISTOLS VERSUS HOBGOBLINS.—​THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED. 284

CHAPTER XXXV.—HAUNTED HOUSES.—​GHOSTS.—​GHOULS.—​PHANTOMS.—​VAMPIRES.—​CONJURORS.—​DIVINING—​GOBLINS.—​FORTUNE-TELLING.—​MAGIC.—​WITCHES.—​SORCERY.—​OBI.—​DREAMS.—​SIGNS.—​SPIRITUAL MEDIUMS.—​FALSE PROPHETS.—​DEMONOLOGY.—​DEVILTRY GENERALLY. 293

CHAPTER XXXVI.—MAGICAL HUMBUGS.—​VIRGIL.—​A PICKLED SORCERER.—​CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, HIS STUDENTS AND HIS BLACK DOG.—​DOCTOR FAUSTUS.—​HUMBUGGING HORSE-JOCKEYS.—​ZIITO AND HIS LARGE SWALLOW.—​DEVIL TAKE THE HINDERMOST. 300

CHAPTER XXXVII.—WITCHCRAFT.—​NEW YORK WITCHES.—​THE WITCH MANIA.—​HOW FAST THEY BURNED THEM.—​THE MODE OF TRIAL.—​WITCHES TO-DAY IN EUROPE. 308

CHAPTER XXXVIII.—CHARMS AND INCANTATIONS.—​HOW CATO CURED SPRAINS.—​THE SECRET NAME OF GOD.—​SECRET NAMES OF CITIES.—​ABRACADABRA CURES FOR CRAMP.—​MR. WRIGHT’S SIGIL.—​WHISKERIFUSTICUS.—​WITCHES’ HORSES.—​THEIR CURSES.—​HOW TO RAISE THE DEVIL. 314

VIII. ADVENTURERS.

CHAPTER XXXIX.—THE PRINCESS CARIBOO. 323

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