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Lubbock, Sir J., 242, 252.

Magic, 242, 257, 265; sympathetic, 240, 241, 246, 254, 261-263, 273; correspondences in, 266; see also Images, Names, Numbers.

Mahatma, 8, 10.

Martineau, Harriet, 221, 222.

McCosh, Dr., 346.

Medicine; see Folk-medicine; see also Superstition.

Mental Community, 80-83.

Mental Telegraphy; see Telepathy.

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, 14, 25, 36, 43, 180; his theories, 181, 189; his practices, 181, 190, 191; his Parisian career, 182-189; the commission to examine, 185-187, 192, 193; his attitude, 187; caricatures of, 188; his status in regard to Hypnotism, 191, 192.

Metaphor, in relation to analogy, 248, 264, 270.

Mind, its influence over body, 26, 37, 38; mortal, 28, 29.

Mind-reading; see Muscle-reading.

Miracles; see Supernatural.

Muscle-reading, 308, 324.

Myth, in relation to analogy, 270.

Names, their use in Magic, 243-245, 257.

Nancy, School of, 230.

Numbers, in Magic, 258; in relation to analogy, 259.

Observation, defects of, 87, 153-155.

Occult, nature of, 3; motives that incline to the, 4, 39, 40, 43; conditions that favor the, 5, 57; persistence of, 46; antidote to the, 46.

Occult Healing, 25, 26, 33, 34; varieties of, 34, 35; by absent treatment, 36; extravagances of, 35, 37.

Od, 225.

Omens, 243, 253; by contraries, 250; in dreams, 255-257.

Oudet, Dr. ----, 204, 215.

Palmistry, 18; interest in, 23; logic underlying, 23.

Perception, 106, 108, 110; as determined by interest, 119; and expectation, 120.

Personal interpretation of events, 17, 40-42, 56, 84.

Pétetin, ----, 197, 198; his transposition of the senses, 199.

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