insanity, lunacy; madness &c adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation^, dementia, demency^; phrenitis^, phrensy^, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain^; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy^; brain storm^...
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Such national-masochistic mania is especially visible among contemporary German politicians who embark daily on neurotic hugging sessions with Afro-Asian and Muslim nationals against whom their forefathers had waged savage wars of survival from the eighth century in Western Europe until the eighteenth ...
The Dutch national character is a major factor why cycling is so popular in the Netherlands, believes Shirley Agudo, author of Bicycle Mania Holland:“Cycling is a way of life in the Netherlands. It’s second nature…Practicality and day-to-day bicycle usage go hand in hand in the ...
Refer to Yates' Occult Philosophy, pages 67-71 and Bodin's On the Demon-Mania of Witches, translated by Randy A. Scott, with an introduction by Jonathan L. Pearl (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1995). GIORDANO BRUNO (1548-1600) According to Frances Yates, Bruno'...
(1818) is a novel of ideas that anticipatesscience fiction.James Hogg’sThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner(1824) is a subtle study of religious mania andsplit personality. Even in its more-vulgar examples, however, Gothic fiction can symbolically address serious political ...