Who has not either seen or heard of some house, shut up and uninhabitable, fallen into decay, and looking dusty and dreary, from which, at midnight, strange sounds have been heard to issue-aerial knockings-the rattling of chains, and the groaning of perturbed spirits?-a house that people have thought it unsafe to pass after dark, and which has remained for years without a tenant, and which no tenant would occupy, even were he paid to do so? There are hundreds of such houses in England at the present day hundreds in France, Germany, and almost every country of Europe, which are marked with the mark of fear-places for the timid to avoid, and the pious to bless themselves at, and ask protection from, as they pass-the abodes of ghosts and evil spirits. Name? Knock! knock! knock!-Never at quiet?- Macbeth.
If you love unique and old English things, please visit us at 'Here's a knocking indeed!. Recent copies and reprints are readily available but original examples such as these are now very rare. The impact of Mackay's work has been remarkably far-reaching, influencing such fields as popular psychology and the stock market. These include economic bubbles like the tulip craze of Holland in 1637 or the Mississippi Company financial bubble of 1719 alchemy, which was of particular interest to individuals who wanted to create gold out of lesser-valued materials the Crusades, also known as the Middle Ages mania witch hunts, the persecution of thousands of innocent victims that arose from either supernatural ill fortune or neighbours with a score to settle duels the political and religious influence on beards and several others.
The books are divided into three broad categories, including 'National Delusions,' 'Peculiar Follies,' and 'Philosophical Delusions.' The author discusses and usually debunks a wide variety of subjects and events. Both volumes are enhanced by a substantial number of engravings. The damage to volume II is reflected in the price. Both volumes are cloth bound with gilded lettering and hardcover, volume I is in very good condition for age, volume II has deterioration to the spine and damage particularly to the cloth covering on the cover which is also loose and partially detached, the internal pages remain complete and clear. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay published in 1852 in two volumes.
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