INDEX.
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Mackay, Charles
New England, women, a child, and a dog, executed as witches, ii. 180.
Nice besieged by the Crusaders, ii. 26.
Nixon, Robert, the Cheshire prophet, i. 238.
Noah, the patriarch, a successful alchymist, i. 95.
Noises. (See Haunted Houses.)
Normandy, witches in, ii. 172.
Nostradamus, the astrologer; his prophecies (portrait), i. 246.
Oath on the Evangelists and holy relics, a test of innocence, ii. 264.
Odomare, a French alchymist, i. 136.
Official peculation in France under the Regent Orleans, i. 7.
Omens: winding-sheets, howling dogs, death-watch, “coffins,” shivering, walking under ladders, upsetting salt, thirteen at table, piebald horses, sneezing, dogs, cats, bees, itching; Oriental belief in omens, i. 255. (See Comets, Falling Stars, and Meteors.)
Oneiro-criticism; interpreting dreams. (See Dreams.)
Ordeals. (See Duels and Ordeals.)
Orleans, Duke of. (Regent of France) portrait of; his patronage of the Mississippi Scheme, i. 5; his financial errors, 10, 12, 33, 41; enforces the execution of Count D’Horn for murder, 23; his purchase of the celebrated diamond, 27; his ill-treatment of Law, 33.
Orleans, Duchess of, her remarks on the Mississippi scheme, i. 5, 19, 24, 35, 36.
Ortholani, a French alchymist, i 136.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, portrait of, ii. 195; poisoned by the Earl and Countess of Somerset and their accomplices, 193-201.
Palestine. (See the Crusades.)
Palmistry. (See Fortune-Telling.)
Paper currency, introduced in France by John Law, i. 4.
Paracelsus, memoir and portrait of, i. 142; his singular doctrines, 145; the first of the magnetisers, 262.
Paris, the Palais Royal (engraving), i. 12; John Law’s house, Rue de Quincampoix (engraving), 13; Hotel de Soissons (engraving), 16; incidents of the Mississippi scheme (four engravings), i. 15, 18, 21, 31; the Place de Grêve (engraving), ii. 192; the Bastile (engraving), ii. 209; house of Nicholas Flamel, in the rue de Marivaux, i. 118; the Rosicrucians in, i. 170-173; Mesmer’s house; his experiments, 278.
Parsons and his family, concoctors of the “Cock Lane Ghost” deception, ii. 228.
Paul’s Cross, Dr. Lamb, the poisoner, attacked and killed there (engraving), ii. 202.
Persecution of alleged witches. (See Witches.)
Peter the Great taxes beards (portrait), i. 267.
Peter the Hermit. (See the Crusades.)
Peter of Lombardy, an alchymist, i. 136.
Peter of Pontefract, his false prophecies described by Grafton, i. 234.
Petronella, the wife of Nicholas Flamel, i. 116.
Philalethes, Eugenius, a Rosicrucian, i. 175.
Philip I. excommunicated, ii. 8.
Philip Augustus joins the third crusade (engraving), ii. 64, 66; his jealousy of Richard I., 69, 71; returns to France, 72.
Philip IV., portrait of, ii. 112; his persecution of the Templars, ii. 113.
Philosopher’s stone, searchers for the. (See Alchymists.)
Pietro D’Apone. (See D’Apone.)
Pigray on witchcraft in France, ii. 122.
Pilgrimages to Jerusalem before the Crusades, ii. 2.
Pilgrim’s staff (engraving), ii. 56.
Place de Grêve (engraving), ii. 192; Madame de Brinvilliers; La Chaussée and others executed there for poisoning, 212, 213, 215.