Explore "The Humbugs of the World" by P.T. Barnum on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Haunted houses -- Ghosts -- Ghouls -- Phantoms -- Vampires -- Conjurors -- Divining -- Goblins -- Fortune-telling -- Magic -- Witches -- Sorcery -- Obi -- Dreams -- Signs -- Spiritual mediums -- False prophets -- Demonology -- Deviltry generally.
Whether superstition is the father of humbug, or humbug the mother of superstition (as well as its nurse,) I do not pretend to say; for the biggest fools and the greatest philosophers can be numbered among the believers in and victims of the worst humbugs that ever prevailed on the Earth.