Contents

Bygone Beliefs:

Being A Series Of Excursions In The Byways Of Thought

By Herbert Stanley Redgrove

[1920]


Title Page

Preface

1. Some Characteristics of Mediaeval Thought

2. Pythagoras and His Philosophy

3. Medicine and Magic

4. Superstitions Concerning Birds

5. The Powder of Sympathy: A Curious Medical Superstition

6. The Belief in Talismans

7. Ceremonial Magic in Theory and Practice

8. Architectural Symbolism

9. The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone

10. The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine

11. Roger Bacon: An Appreciation

12. The Cambridge Platonists