Apparitions; Dreams; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Parapsychology -- Early works to 1900
ILLUSTRATION OF MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS.
Elemental Causes—Impositions at 147-154
Woodstock—Tedworth—Cock Lane—Subterranean
Sounds—Currents of Air—Memnon—Phonic
Instruments—Vocal curiosity in young Richmond
FAIRY MYTHOLOGY.
Origin of Faëry—Legends of the Mythology of 155-165
various Climes—Cauld Lad of Hilton
DEMONOLOGY.
Classic and Indian Mythology—Embodying of a 166-177
Demon—Stories illustrative of the Superstitions
of Ireland and Cornwall—Legend of the
Changelings—Poetry of Nature—Preadamite Beings
NATURE OF SOUL AND MIND.
Psychology of the Greeks and of the 178-192
Moderns—Essence of Phrenology—Lord
Brougham—Priestley—Paley—Johnson—Modes of
Sepulture—Paradise—Atheism—Deity—Hindu
Mythology—Senile Intellect
NATURE OF SLEEP.
Unconsciousness of Sleep—Necessity of 193-204
Slumber—Malady of Collins—Somnolency of the
Brute and of Savages—Periods of
Sleep—Sleeplessness and its Antidotes
SUBLIMITY AND IMPERFECTION OF DREAMING.
Unconsciousness of the Dream—Arguments on this 205-213
question—Episode of a dreaming Life
PROPHECY OF DREAMS.
Ancient Prophetic Dreams—Stories of modern 214-222
Prophecies in Dreaming
MORAL CAUSES OF DREAMING.
Associations of Dreaming—Incongruous 223-235
Combinations—Source of Ideas in Dreams—Innate
Idea—Undreaming Minds—Flitting of the
Spirit—Fallacy of Mental Energy in the
Dream—Illusion of Dreams—Marmontel
ANACHRONISM AND COINCIDENCE OF DREAMS.
Celerity of Ideas in the Dream—Sacred Records of 236-256
Dreams—Danger of profane Discussion of
Scripture—Fallacy of Dreams—Consequences of
Credulity in Dreams
MATERIAL CAUSES OF DREAMS.
Blending of Metaphysics and Philosophy—Confusion 257-269
of ancient and modern Classifications of
Dreams—Curious Cases of suspended
Memory—Anecdotes of Tenacity of
Memory—Physiology of Memory—Ghost of an
amputated Limb
INTENSE IMPRESSION.—MEMORY.
Curious Cases of Associations—Deranged 270-280
Memory—Dreams of Animals—Poetic Illustrations
INFLUENCE OF DARK BLOOD IN THE BRAIN.
Conditions of the Brain—Analogy of Dreaming and 281-294
Mania—Sympathetic Causes of
Dreaming—Repletion—Effects of Posture in
inducing Dreams—Phrenological Illustrations
INCUBUS OR NIGHT-MARE.
Illustrative Incidents—Night-mare of the Mind 295-303
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