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In a series of letters addressed to a fellow poet, the author applies a rational and historical lens to the study of the supernatural. The text surveys the history of witch trials, fairy lore, and ghost stories, attempting to explain these phenomena through psychology and the medical understanding of the time. It reveals the authors deep fascination with the uncanny, balancing a skepticism of the events with a respect for the folklore itself. This work is a captivating blend of Enlightenment inquiry and Gothic curiosity.

Delve into the shadowy realm of the subconscious and the supernatural in this compelling investigation of dreams and spectral visitations. Drawing upon historical accounts and personal anecdotes, the work analyzes the phenomenon of ghosts through a lens of curiosity and anthropological insight. It questions the reality of visions and the possibility of communication with the beyond, devoid of sensationalism but full of intrigue. This collection serves as a serious yet accessible study for anyone fascinated by the mysteries of the mind and the afterlife.

Explore the fascinating boundary between the rational world and the unexplained in this collection of essays on spiritualism and the supernatural. Examining historical hauntings and psychic phenomena, the text bridges the gap between folklore and scientific inquiry with wit and skepticism. From the famous Cock Lane ghost to ancient rituals, the author dissects the enduring human fascination with the invisible world. This volume invites readers to question the nature of belief and the limits of human perception.

First published in the Bureau of American Ethnology, The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (Illustrated) assembles a corpus of ritual textshealing, divination, hunting, love, warfare, and ball-game ritesrecorded in Sequoyahs syllabary and translated with philological care. Mooney couples the formulas parallelism, refrain, and archaic diction with commentary on performance, materia medica, and cosmology, noting numerologies and directional symbolism. The illustrated apparatus reproduces manuscripts and ethnobotanical identifications, giving visual access to a tradition where word, gesture, and object form a whole. James Mooney (18611921), a Smithsonian ethnographer with the Bureau of American Ethnology, conducted extended fieldwork among the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the late nineteenth century. Self-trained in Indigenous languages, he partnered with Cherokee practitioners and scribes, transcribing texts in the original syllabary before offering literal and free translations. Working amid missionary pressure and legal suppression of ritual practice, Mooney adopted a documentary ethic aimed at preserving knowledge while acknowledging its custodians. This edition is indispensable for scholars of anthropology, Indigenous studies, comparative religion, and ethnolinguistics, and for readers seeking a primary-source window into Cherokee intellectual life. Read alongside contemporary Cherokee scholarship, the illustrated volume invites careful, respectful study of a living tradition articulated in its own authoritative voice.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Isis Unveiled (Vol. 1 & 2) is Blavatskys sweeping synthesis and polemic: Volume I ("Science") challenges nineteenthcentury materialism; Volume II ("Theology") rebukes ecclesiastical dogma, proposing a perennial wisdom. In an encyclopedic, citationheavy collage ranging from the Vedas and Buddhist sutras to Neoplatonists, Hermeticists, and Church Fathers, it argues for occult causation and latent psychic faculties, emblematic of the Victorian occult revival amid Darwinian debate and nascent comparative religion. Russianborn Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, cofounder of the Theosophical Society (1875), wrote in New York drawing on extensive travel, multilingual reading, and claimed instruction from Eastern adepts. A journalist and tireless compiler, she mined archives, travelers reports, and philology then circulating in Europe and America. Encounters in Egypt and India, and immersion in Spiritualist circles, reinforced her conviction that ancient esoteric sciences underlie both religion and nature. Scholars of intellectual history, religious studies, and Western esotericism will find a provocative index of nineteenthcentury thought. Read critically yet sympathetically: as a quarry of sources, a feat of comparative imagination, and a cornerstone of Theosophy. Whether sought as an alternative to positivism or as a document of the eras ambitions and anxieties, Isis Unveiled repays patient, discriminating study.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Lenâpé and Their Legends distills Lenape history, mythology, and language through a rigorously annotated edition of the Walam Olum, accompanied by pictographs, glossary, and notes. Brinton survey