Haunted House (Ultimate Sticker Book)

MackayБЂ™s treatment ranges from alchemy, prophecy and faith healing, to haunted houses, the Crusades, and the БЂњinfluence of politics and religion on the hair and beard.БЂ«The value of the book, like the account of Alexander the Oracle-Monger, lies in the remoteness of the frauds and delusions described. Many of the impostures do not have a contemporary ring and only weakly engage our passions: it becomes clear how people in other times were deceived. But after reading many such cases, we begin to wonder what the comparable contemporary versions are. PeopleБЂ™s feelings are as strong as they always were, and skepticism is probably as unfashionable today as in any other age. Accordingly, there ought to be bamboozles galore in contemporary society. And there are. In AlexanderБЂ™s time, as in MackayБЂ™s, religion was the source of most accepted insights and prevailing world views. Those intent on duping the public often did so in religious language. This is, of course, still being done, as the testimony of penitent spiritualists and other late-breaking news amply attest ...»