Illiustrirovannaia istoriia sueverii i volshebstva - Lemann Al'fred

The book by Dr. Alfred Lehmann, Director of the Psychophysical Laboratory in Copenhagen, focuses on the basics of human civilization. What modern man sometimes looks down on, considering it unscientific, unmodern or wild, calling it superstitions, this whole range of representations, rituals and objects of material culture - all this helped to survive our ancestors for dozens of thousands of years. This unique study explores the development of ancient ways of knowing the world and man, many of whom still find their followers, accepting it if not cold minds, then feelings and soul: about astrology, alchemy, magic, chiromantics, Kabbalistika. The book explains such concepts as hypnosis, sleepwalking, occultism, spiritualism, telepathy. Alfred Lehmann not only analyzes pagan superstitions, magic, magic and occultism, but also stops in detail at spiritualism and esotericism of the 18th and 19th centuries - from Swedenborg to Elena Blavatsky. The book contains more than 150 illustrations.