TY - SER AU - Mackay, Charles, TI - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds AV - AZ PY - 2008/// PB - Project Gutenberg, KW - Common fallacies KW - Hallucinations and illusions KW - Delusions KW - Occultism -- Early works to 1900 KW - Swindlers and swindling KW - Alchemy KW - Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects KW - Investments -- Psychological aspects KW - Impostors and imposture KW - Social psychology N1 - The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics; Public domain in the USA; Text UR - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 ER -