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The old and the new magic (1906)

Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · Chicago : The Open court Pub. Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 113

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rise in France, who shouldabolish lettres de cachet and convoke the Estates-General. In afew years the prediction was fulfilled. Poor De Launay losthis life, whereupon Cagliostro issued a pamphlet exulting overthe butchery of his enemy. In London, Cagliostro became the Digitized by Microsoft® 72… … to impress the common-sense, practical English with his pre-tensions to animal magnetism, transcendental medicine, andoccultism. One of his vaunted schemes was to light up thestreets of London with sea-water, which by his magic powerhe proposed to change into oil. The newspapers ridiculed hiffli…

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