Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

By Charles Mackay

• Preface to the 1852 Edition
• THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME
• THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
• THE TULIPOMANIA
• RELICS
• MODERN PROPHECIES
• POPULAR ADMIRATION FOR GREAT THIEVES
• INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD
• DUELS AND ORDEALS
• THE LOVE OF THE MARVELOUS AND THE DISBELIEF OF THE TRUE
• POPULAR FOLLIES IN GREAT CITIES
• THE O. P. MANIA
• THE THUGS, OR PHANSIGARS
• THE CRUSADES
• THE WITCH MANIA
• THE SLOW POISONERS
• HAUNTED HOUSES
• THE ALCHYMISTS; or, Searchers for the Philosopher's Stone and the Water of Life
• FORTUNE TELLING
• THE MAGNETISERS