Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (read book txt) 📖

South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 82. Holland, the tulip mania. (See Tulip Mania.) Holloway’s lectures on animal magnetism, i. 287. Holt, Chief Justice, his opposition to the belief in witchcraft, ii. 152. “Holy Lance,” the, its pretended discovery (engraving), ii. 37. Hopkins, Matthew, the “witch-finder general,” his cruelty and retributive fate, (engraving), ii. 143-146. Horoscope of Louis XIV., i. 249. Hugh count of Vermandois imprisoned at Constantinople, ii. 21, 23; at the siege of Nice, 26; quits the Crusaders, 42. Human remains ingredients in charms and nostrums, i. 272. Hungary plundered by the Crusaders, ii. 15, 16, 20, 21. Hutchinson, Dr., his work on witchcraft, ii. 123. Imps in the service of witches. (See Demons and Witchcraft.) Ingelgerius count of Anjou, his duel with Gontran (engraving), ii. 269. Innocent III. and IV., promoters of the Crusades, ii. 75, 80, 81. Innocent VIII., his bull against witchcraft, ii. 117. Innspruck, view of (engraving), i. 181. Invisibility pretended by the Rosicrucians, i. 169, 178. Isaac Comnenus attacked by Richard I., ii. 69. Isaac of Holland, an alchymist, i. 136. Isnik, the Crusaders defeated at (with view of Isnik), ii. 19. Italy, slow poisoning in (see Poisoning); the banditti of, ii. 256. Jaques Cœur the alchymist, memoir of, i. 132. Jaffa besieged by Saladin, and saved by Richard I., ii. 74; view of, ii. 89; defended by the Templars against the Korasmins, ii. 90. James I., his belief in the virtue of “weapon salve,” i. 266; portrait of, ii. 134; charges Gellie Duncan and others with witchcraft, 129; their trial, confessions and execution, 129-135; his work on “Demonology,” 139; his supposed secret vices; his favoritism to the Earl of Somerset, the poisoner of Sir Thomas Overbury; himself thought to have died by poison, 193-202; his severity against duelling, 287. Jean De Meung. (See De Meung.) Jerusalem (and see Crusades), engravings, ii. 44, 47, 49; first pilgrims to, ii. 2; besieged and taken by the Crusaders, 45; its state under the Christian kings, 48, 49; council of the second Crusade there, 60; captured by Saladin, 63. Jewell, Bishop, his exclamations against witchcraft, ii. 124. Jews plundered and murdered by the Crusaders, ii. 20. Joan of Arc, her execution (engraving), ii. 114. John XXII. (Pope), his study of Alchymy, i. 111. Johnson, Dr., on the “Beggar’s Opera,” ii. 258. Joseph II. of Austria, his opposition to duelling, ii. 298. Judicial astrology. (See Astrology.) Judicial combats. (See Duels.) Karloman, King of Hungary, his contest with the Crusaders, ii. 20. Kelly, Edward, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 152. Kendal, Duchess of, her participation in the South-Sea fraud, i. 76, 77. Kent, Mr., accused of murder by the “Cock Lane Ghost,” ii. 229. Kepler, his excuse for astrology, i. 250. Kerbogha, leader of the Turks defeated at Antioch, ii. 34, 38, 39. Kerr, Robert, afterwards Earl of Somerset. (See Somerset.) Kircher abandons his belief in alchymy, i. 185, 183; his belief in magnetism as a remedy for disease, 264. Knight, ——, Treasurer of the South-Sea Company, his apprehension and escape, i. 76. Knox, John, portrait of; accused of witchcraft, ii. 128. Koffstky, a Polish alchymist, i. 136. Labourt, France, 200 witches executed, ii. 166. La Chataigneraie and De Jarnac, their famous duel, ii. 273. La Chaussée, the accomplice of Madame de Brinvilliers, his execution, ii. 212. Lady-day, superstitions on, i. 258. Lamb, Dr., the poisoner, attacked and killed in the streets (engraving), ii. 202. “Lancashire witches” executed, ii. 141. Laski, Count Albert, his reception by Queen Elizabeth, his studies in alchymy, i. 155; is victimised by Dee and Kelly, 157. Lavigoreux and Lavoisin, the French poisoners executed, ii. 215. Law, J., projector of the Mississippi scheme, his romantic history, i. 1; his house in the Rue de Quincampoix, Paris (engraving), i. 13. Law, Wm., his participation in the Mississippi scheme, i. 9, 42. Le Blanc, the Abbé, on the popularity of Great Thieves, ii. 251. Lennox, Col., his duel with the Duke of York, ii. 293. Liège, Madame de Brinvilliers arrested there, ii. 213. Lille, singular charges of witchcraft at, ii. 169. Lilly, the astrologer, account of, i. 243. Lipsius, his passion for tulips, i. 86. London, the plague of 1665, i. 228; inundation prophesied in 1524, i. 228; the Great Fire, 230. (See also Cagliostro, Change Alley, Cornhill, Merchant Taylors’ Hall, Tower, Westminster.) Longbeard, William, cause of his name, i. 300. Longsword, William (engraving), joins the ninth Crusade, ii. 91. Loudun, the curate of, executed for witchcraft, ii. 168. Louis VII. cuts short his hair, and loses his queen, i. 299; joins the Crusaders, ii. 53; is consecrated at St. Denis, 55; reaches Constantinople and Nice, 58; his conflicts with the Saracens, 59; arrival at Jerusalem, 60; his sincerity as a Crusader, 61; returns to France, 62. Louis IX. undertakes the ninth Crusade, ii. 90; his valour at the battle of Massoura, 94; taken prisoner, 94; his ransom and return, 94; his second Crusade, 95; effigy of (engraving), 220. Louis XI., his encouragement of astrologers, i. 246. Louis XIII., prevalence of duelling in his reign, ii. 280. Louis XIV., his bigotry and extravagance, i. 5, 6; remonstrated with by his Parliament on his leniency to supposed witches, ii. 171; portrait of, 177; establishes the “chambre ardente” for the trial of poisoners, 214, 283; his horoscope, 249; his severe edict against duelling, 283. Louis XV., his patronage of the Court St. Germain, i. 201, 204. “Loup-garou” executed in France, ii. 120. Loutherbourg, the painter, his alleged cures by animal magnetism, i. 288. Lulli, Raymond, a famous alchymist, his romantic history, with portrait, i. 105; his treatment by Edward II., 135. Lyons, view of, ii. 160.