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306 Sciatica, cures of, 15, 38. Scientific investigation, lack of, in witchcraft cases, 232. Scipio's dream, 109, 110. Scot, Reginald, on witchcraft, 209, 223.

Scotch, belief in witchcraft among, 198, 199, 201, 203. Scotland, consumption in, 11; witchcraft in, 203-206, 211, 212.

Scott, Sir Walter, hallucinations of, 169; hallucination reported to, 170.

Scotus, Duns, believer in astrology, 67.

Scripture, misapplied, 46, 57. Scrofula, cures by king's touch, 24; planetary influence on, 73. Scurvy cured by mental delusion, 21.

Scythia, witchcraft in, 207. Second Adventists, catalepsy among, 61.

Self-cure, 289. Self-esteem, 155. Sensations, how affected by concentration of attention, 25; tests of faith, 42. Senses, exaltation of, 135, 136.

Sermon composed in sleep, 115.

Servia, witchcraft in, 201. Sewall, Judge, confession of, 236. Shakspere, the poet of witchcraft, 196.

Shock, effect of, 51.

"Shocks of vitality," 34. Shorthouse, Rev. W. B., testimony as to reputed cures by Mr. Wood, 13. Sickness, a dream of falsity, 245. Sight, restoration of, 274. Sigmond, Dr., account of presentiment to Talleyrand, 157. Signs, mistaken ideas about, 18; superstition about, 45; the food of superstition, 57. Silent treatment, 279. Silesia, vampyrism in, 188.

Silver dollar, efficacy of, 22. Simon the sorcerer, 45. Simpson, Rev. A. B., cures by, 6, 15; value of testimony to cures by, 8; testimony at one of his meetings, 12; supernatural and superhuman claims of, 48; on Roman Catholic miracles, 48; failure at Peekskill, 49; on divine healing, 49; on will power, 50. Sin, Christian Science theory of, 249.

Sleep, walking and talking in, 113-115; perfect, 116; Sir Henry Holland on, 121; talking in, 135. Sleeping on the back, 134. Sleight of hand, 92. Smallpox, planetary influence on, 73, 87. Smollett, testimony to cure of consumption, 21. Snakes, anecdote of, 90. Socialistic activity prophesied, 83. Society, affectation of new or strange things by, 65.

Society for Psychical Research, investigations by, 139-143, 281; on hallucinations, 171. Socrates on dreams, 110.

Softening of brain cured by Christian science, 256.

Soldiers, superstitions of, 164.

Sologne, burning of a witch at, 202. Solomon, the dreams of, 109; deals in magic, 208. Somnambulism, 109, 113-115, 134-136. Soothsayers, 91, 198.

Sorcery, 198. Soul, relation of dreams to the, 148. South America, witchcraft in, 201.

South Carolina, witchcraft in, 206.

Southcott, Joanna, belief in immortality of, 275. Southern States, witchcraft in, 199, 200. Southey, Robert, planetary influence on, 76. South Kensington Museum, illusion in, 128. Sovereigns, illegitimacy of, no bar to healing powers, 24. Space and time, annihilations of, 128, 129.

Special promises, 37.

Special providences, 43.

Spells, 201. Spinal diseases, imaginary, 7; cures of, 15. Spinoza, hallucinations of, 169. Spirit-rapping, 193, 194. Spiritualism, phenomena of, 2; claims of supernatural and superhuman powers for, 48; compared with voodooism, 48; in relation to apparitions, 185, 186; reappearance of witchcraft in, 197; Mrs. Eddy on, 261. Spiritualist healers, relative success of, 15. Spiritualists, cures of deafness by, 16; relapses among, 19; comparisons of cures with those of other sects, 38, 42, 48. Springfield, Mass., witchcraft in, 214. Stargazers, 67. Stars as sources of prosperity, 68. See also. Stedinger, the, suppressed, 211.

Steinmetz on chance and luck, 99. Stevens, Benjamin, case of, 137, 138, 145. Stevens, "Life of Bangs," 160. Stilling, Dr., on pneumatology, 173, 174.

Stimulants, relapses after use of, 18. Stove-pipe, climbing a, 172.