What does it mean for your future to dream of cats, beans, knives, or an earthquake? This anonymous author knew back in 1894 and now all of their dramatic A to Z secrets can be revealed. Learn the meanings of dozens of dream-objects and how they can foretell the future, at least according to this old-timey "science."
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Where did Anglo-Saxon drinking customs come from? To answer this question, John Ashton looked back at artifacts from Beowulf to drinking horns. The resulting drinking history is anything but dry.
"Northern Drinking" is a chapter excerpted by Ashton and James Mew's 1892 book Drinks of the World.
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Who, or what, were the Devils of Loudun? Did Queen Elizabeth the First's friend and advisor John Dee know a man who talked to angels in their sacred language? Could Germany's so-called Seeress of Prevorst really find objects that had been hidden by the dead? These questions are explored, along with eight additional stories of history's celebrated (supposed) ghosts and what the author calls "human enigmas," in Historical Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.
Henry (H.) Addington Bruce (1874-1959) was a newspaper journalist whose career began in his native Toronto. He moved to the United States, where he worked for the American Press Association. His primary areas of interest were the psychology of the day and alleged psychical phenomena. A trustee of the American Society of Psychical Research, he tended to be skeptical of poltergeist claims but was open-minded on the questions of telepathy and other powers of the human mind.
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Do human beings need God in order to be good? This is the question M.M. (Mangasar Magurditch) Mangasarian answers in this 1905 book. Mangasarian believes there are many reasons to believe people can and will be moral in the absence of worshipping a deity.
Born to Armenian parents in Turkey while it was part of the Ottoman Empire in 1859, Mangasarian was an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church. During the United States' Progressive era, he resigned from his pulpit in Philadelphia and become an independent pastor and a rationalist. After 1900 he led the rationalist Independent Religious Society of Chicago.
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