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Hallucinations: Or, the Rational History of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism
by:
Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont
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Phantasmata or Illusions and Fanatacisms of Protean Forms Productive of Great Evils
by:
Richard Robert Madden
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Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica
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Thomas Browne
4.28 avg rating β 46 ratings
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Grand Deception
by:
Alexander Klein
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Stultifera Navis: Or, the Modern Ship of Fools
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William Henry Ireland
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Nonconscious Movements: From Mystical Messages To Facilitated Communication
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Herman H. Spitz
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Fakes, Grafts and Swindles Exposed
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J. Alfred McCurry
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Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture
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Ita MacCarthy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas
by:
I.J. Good
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The Standardization of Error
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VilhjΓ‘lmur StefΓ‘nsson
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Against Method
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Paul Karl Feyerabend
4.02 avg rating β 3,446 ratings
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The Encyclopaedia of Medical Ignorance: Exploring the Frontiers of Medical Knowledge
by:
Ronald Duncan
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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You've Always Been Wrong
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RenΓ© Daumal
3.83 avg rating β 35 ratings
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The Charlatanry of the Learned (De Charlataneria Eruditorum, 1715)
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Johann Burkhard Mencken
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; In an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion
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Joseph Glanvill
2.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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A Short History of Decay
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Emil M. Cioran
4.18 avg rating β 5,648 ratings
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The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers
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Jonathan Swift
3.62 avg rating β 26 ratings
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The Curse of Ignorance: a History of Mankind
by:
Arthur Findlay
4.09 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Rants and Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illuminations : 1558-Present
by:
Bob Black
4.07 avg rating β 60 ratings
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The Art of Faking Exhibition Poultry: An Examination of the Faker's Methods and Processes with Some Observations on Their Detection
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George R. Scott
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The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II: 1576-1612
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Henry Carrington Bolton
3.60 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking
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Leonard Zusne
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
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The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order
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Robert S. Westman
3.91 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
by:
Lee A. Siegel
4.04 avg rating β 28 ratings
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The Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment
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Mark Knights
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth
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John Abercrombie
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Listen, Little Man!
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Wilhelm Reich
3.97 avg rating β 8,774 ratings
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A Discourse Concerning Prodigies
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John Spencer
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The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs: Popular Myths and Learned Delusions regarding the Bite of the Mad Dog
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Vincent DiMarco
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Mountebanks and Medicasters: A History of Italian Charlatans from the Middle Ages to the Present
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Piero Gambaccini
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Extreme Prejudice: The Presidio "Satanic Abuse" Scam
by:
Michael Aquino
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Humbugs of New-York: Being a Remonstrance Against Popular Delusion; Whether in Science, Philosophy, or Religion
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David Meredith Reese
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Social sciences as sorcery
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Stanislav Andreski
4.07 avg rating β 73 ratings
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Illusory Illness And The Feverish Pursuit Of Health
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Rudolf Steiner
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Eyewitness Testimony: With a New Preface
by:
Elizabeth F. Loftus
4.18 avg rating β 100 ratings
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The Vanity of Arts and Sciences
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Cornelius Agrippa
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Vampires Exposed: Or Ferreting Out the Woman Grafters
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Clifton R. Wooldridge
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Anthology of Third-World Email Scams: Learn from the best and worst!
by:
Michael N. Marcus
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy
by:
Tomasz Witkowski
4.40 avg rating β 43 ratings
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Demonologia: Or, Natural Knowledge Revealed, by J.S.F
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J.S. Forsyth
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Writing East: The "Travels" of Sir John Mandeville
by:
Iain Macleod Higgins
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Selling Satan: The Evangelical Media and the Mike Warnke Scandal
by:
Mike Hertenstein
4.10 avg rating β 80 ratings
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The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
by:
Ambrose Bierce
4.05 avg rating β 10,954 ratings
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Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quakery
by:
Robert Means Lawrence
3.50 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Superstition and the Press
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Curtis Daniel MacDougall
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Escape from Quantopia: Collective Insanity in Science and Society
by:
Ted Dace
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Common sense a common delusion, or, The generally-received notions of natural causes, religion, deity, virtue, &c. as exhibited in Mr. Pope's Essay on man, proved ridiculous, impious, and the effect of infatuation; and the chief cause of the present formi
by:
Almonides
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A New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors
by:
Stephen Fovargue
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America
by:
Michael A. Wheeler
4.33 avg rating β 24 ratings
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How Real Is Real?: Communication, Disinformation, Confusion
by:
Paul Watzlawick
4.17 avg rating β 983 ratings
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Going Bonkers: The Wacky World of Cultural Madness
by:
Charles W. Sasser
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Was the Shakespeare after all a myth
by:
John Watts de Peyster
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Groups, Gimmicks, And Instant Gurus: An Examination Of Encounter Groups And Their Distortions
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William R. Coulson
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Why Clocks Don't Measure Time: A Critique of the Religious Dogma of Science
by:
Colin A. Ross
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Telling Stories : Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
by:
Barend J. Ter Haar
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Remedies and Rackets: The Truth About Patent Medicines Today
by:
James Graham Cook
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Tarnished Gold: The Sickness of Evidence-based Medicine
by:
Steve Hickey
4.20 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Universal Illusion of Free Will and Criminal Responsibility
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Augustin Frederic Hamon
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The ruling class and you: A heretical book of antipropaganda
by:
Jan F. Riha
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The Persistent Illusion
by:
Ryan D. Gable
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Clever Hans (the Horse of Mr. Von Osten): A Contribution to Experimental Animal and Human Psychology
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Oskar Pfungst
4.27 avg rating β 11 ratings
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The Destruction of Mephisto's Greatest Web: Or, All Grafts Laid Bare
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H.K. James
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Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria
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Richard Ofshe
4.11 avg rating β 66 ratings
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Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam
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Edward J. Barbeau
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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A Philosophical Essay on Credulity and Superstition; and Also on Animal Fascination, or Charming
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Rufus Blakeman
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Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend
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Jeffrey S. Victor
3.93 avg rating β 200 ratings
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Error and Eccentricity in Human Belief
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Joseph Jastrow
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The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies
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Richard de Mille
4.31 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Humbug: A Look at Some Popular Impositions
by:
Anonymous
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The Trisectors
by:
Underwood Dudley
4.30 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Moon Hoax or, A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings.
by:
Richard Adams Locke
3.21 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
by:
Helge Kragh
4.45 avg rating β 103 ratings
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Sixty curious and authentic narratives and anecdotes respecting extraordinary characters; illustrative of the tendency of credulity and fanaticism; exemplifying the imperfections of circumstantial evidence; and recording singular instances of voluntary hu
by:
William Hone
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Quacks and Grafters
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Ex-Osteopath
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Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences
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Pitirim A. Sorokin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Rumor, Fear, and the Madness of Crowds
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J.P. Chaplin
3.86 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
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Miriam Eliav-Feldon
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
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Martin Gardner
4.05 avg rating β 1,169 ratings
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English as She Is Wrote: Showing Curious Ways in Which the English Language May Be Made to Convey Ideas or Obscure Them; A Companion to English as She Is Spoke
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Pedro Carolino
3.91 avg rating β 615 ratings
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Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time and Troubles
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Maureen Perrie
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Great Diamond Hoax
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Asbury Harpending
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Literary Forgeries and Mystifications: An Exhibition, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, June 18-August 29, 2003
by:
Richard Landon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Confessions of a Hoaxer
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Alan Abel
3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings
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The Secrets of Mahatma Land Explained: Teaching and Explaining the Performances of the Most Celebrated Oriental Mystery Makers and Magicians in All Parts of the World
by:
Samri S Baldwin
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A Seventeenth-Century Exposure of Superstition: Select Texts of Claude Pithoys (1587-1676) (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idΓ©es)
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P.J.S. Whitmore
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A Passion To Believe: Autism And The Facilitated Communication Phenomenon
by:
Diane Twachtman-Cullen
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Psychomythics
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William R. Uttal
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Mormonism : Shadow or Reality?
by:
Jerald Tanner
4.09 avg rating β 56 ratings
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A Statement of Facts, Relative to the Supposed Abstinence of Ann Moore, of Tutbury, Staffordshire: And a Narrative of the Circumstances Which Led to the Recent Detection of the Imposture: To Which Is Subjoined an Appendix, Containing Medical and Other Pap
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Legh Richmond
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The Erroneous Disposition of the People: poetry and prose derived from the table of contents from Sir Thomas Browne's 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica', 1642
by:
Wade Bradshaw
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Behind the Scenes with the Mediums
by:
David Phelps Abbott
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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On the Other Side of the Footlights: An Expose of Routines, Apparatus and Deceptions Resorted to by Mediums, Clairvoyants, Fortune Tellers and Crystal Gazers in Deluding the Public
by:
Willis Dutcher
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Supernatural Illusions - Vol I
by:
P.I. Begbie
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Balderdash: A Treatise on Ethics
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Antti P. Balk
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Whims of the Ages; The Moon the Mother of All Things; The Day of Doom and the Flight of the Gods
by:
John Martin Woolsey
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Popular Fallacies Explained and Corrected
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A.S.E. Ackermann
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Delusions of Everyday Life
by:
Leonard Shengold
3.39 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Knock Wood!: Superstition Through the Ages
by:
Daniel Deerforth
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The Mystery of Versailles: A complete solution
by:
J.R. Sturge-Whiting
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Everything They Ever Told Me Was a Lie Volume One
by:
Patt Shannan
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