Presents a comprehensive account of paranormal beliefs and popular delusions in history including the seventeenth-century madness surrounding the value of tulips in Holland, witch hunts and haunted houses, health cures and scares, and other examples of human gullibility.
year: 2001
call number/section: 1.9
subjects: errors, popular, impostors and imposture, swindlers and swindling, occultism, early works to 1900, delusions