Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 (Project Gutenberg, 2008)
The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
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Keywords: Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects; Impostors and imposture; Delusions; Hallucinations and illusions; Swindlers and swindling; Alchemy; Common fallacies; Social psychology; Investments -- Psychological aspects