Illustrated. Some Characteristics of Mediaeval Thought; Pythagorus and his Philosophy; Medicine and Magic; Superstitions concerning Birds; The Powder of Sympathy; A Curious Medical Superstition; The Belief in Talismans; Ceremonial Magic in Theory and Practice; Architectural Symbolism; The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone; The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine; Roger Bacon an Appreciation; The Cambridge Platonists.