Charles Mackay,

Extraordinary Popular Delusions

and the Madness of Crowds,

Richard Bentley, London, first edition 1841, and 2nd 1852

[reprint Harmony New York 1980]

 

The Missippi Scheme

 

The South-Sea Bubble

 

The Tulipomania

 

The Alchymists

 

Modern Prophesies

 

Fortune-Telling

 

The Magnetisers

 

Influnece of Politics and religion on the Hair and the Baerd

 

The Crusades

 

The Witch Mania

 

The Slow Poisoners

 

Haunted Houses

 

Popular Follies of Great Cities

 

Popular Admiration of Great Thieves

 

Duels and Ordeals

 

Relics