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| Chapter XXXV.—Haunted Houses.—Ghosts.—Ghouls.—Phantoms.—Vampires.—Conjurors.—Divining.—Goblins.—Fortune-Telling.—Magic.—Witches.—Sorcery.—Obi.—Dreams.—Signs.—Spiritual Mediums.—False Prophets.—Demonology.—Deviltry Generally. | 293 | |
| Chapter XXXVI.—Magical Humbugs.—Virgil.—A Pickled Sorcerer.—Cornelius Agrippa.—His Students and His Black Dog.—Doctor Faustus.—Humbugging Horse-Jockeys.—Ziito and His Large Swallow.—Salamanca.—Devil Take the Hindmost. | 300 | |
| Chapter XXXVII.—Witchcraft.—New York Witches.—The Witch Mania.—How Fast They Burned Them.—The Mode of Trial.—Witches To-Day in Europe. | 308 | |
| Chapter XXXVIII.—Charms and Incantations.—How Cato Cured Sprains.—The Secret Name of God.—Secret Names of Cities.—Abracadabra.—Cures for Cramp.—Mr. Wright’s Sigil.—Whiskerifusticus.—Witches’ Horses.—Their Curses.—How to Raise the Devil. | 314 | |
| VIII. Adventurers. | ||
| Chapter XXXIX.—The Princess Cariboo; Or, The Queen Of The Isles. | 323 | |
| Chapter XL.—Count Cagliostro, Alias Joseph Balsamo, Known Also as “Cursed Joe.” | 330 | |
| Chapter XLI.—The Diamond Necklace. | 338 | |
| Chapter XLII.—The Count de St. Germain, Sage, Prophet, and Magician. | 354 | |
| Chapter XLIII.—Riza Bey, the Persian Envoy to Louis XIV. | 361 | |
| IX. Religious Humbugs. | ||
| Chapter XLIV.—Diamond Cut Diamond; Or, Yankee Superstitions.—Matthias the Impostor.—New York Follies Thirty Years Ago. | 370 | |
| Chapter XLV.—A Religious Humbug on John Bull.—Joanna Southcott.—The Second Shiloh. | 380 | |
| Chapter XLVI.—The First Humbug in the World.—Advantages of Studying the Impositions of Former Ages.—Heathen Humbugs.—The Ancient Mysteries.—The Cabiri.—Eleusis.—Isis. | 386 | |
| Chapter XLVII.—Heathen Humbugs No. 2—Heathen Stated Services.—Oracles.—Sibyls.—Auguries. | 392 | |
| Chapter XLVIII.—Modern Heathen Humbugs.—Fetishism.—Obi.—Vaudoux.—Indian Powwows.—Lamaism.—Revolving Prayers.—Praying to Death. | 401 | |
| Chapter XLIX.—Ordeals.—Duels.—Wager of Battle.—Abraham Thornton.—Red Hot Iron.—Boiling Water.—Swimming.—Swearing.—Corsned.—Pagan Ordeals. | 408 | |
| Chapter L.—Apollonius of Tyana. | 415 | |
