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The Motive for Disguise : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Women as Men The Motive for Disguise by Bram Stoker The Motive for Disguise One of the commonest forms of imposture—so common that it seems rooted in a phase of human nature—is that of women who disguise themselves as men. It is […]

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Arthur Orton : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : The Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton by Bram Stoker Arthur Orton (The Tichborne Claimant.) In the annals of crime, Arthur Orton, the notorious claimant to the rich estates and title of Tichborne, takes a foremost place; not only as the originator of one of the […]

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Matthew Hopkins : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Matthew Hopkins by Bram Stoker Matthew Hopkins There is one thing more evil than oppression in the shape of wrong-doing, and that is oppression in the guise of good. Tennyson, in one of his poems, speaks of the dishonest pharmacist who […]

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Mother Damnable : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Mother Damnable by Bram Stoker Mother Damnable Owing to a want of accord among historians, the searcher after historic truth in our own day can hardly be quite sure of the identity of the worthy lady who passed under the above […]

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Sir Edward Kelley : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Sir Edward Kelley by Bram Stoker Sir Edward Kelley Carlyle in his French Revolution makes a contrast between two works of imagination which mark the extremes of the forces that made for the disruption of France, Paul et Virginie and […]

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La Voisin : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance La Voisin by Bram Stoker La Voisin In Paris a woman named Des Hayes Voisin, a widow who had taken up the business of a midwife, towards the end of the seventeenth century made herself notorious by the telling of fortunes. […]

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Doctor Dee : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Doctor Dee by Bram Stoker Doctor Dee Even a brief survey of the life of the celebrated “Doctor Dee,” the so-called “Wizard” of the sixteenth century, will leave any honest reader under the impression that in the perspective of history he […]

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Witches : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Witches by Bram Stoker Witches – The Period For convenience, the masculine offender is in demonology classed under the female designation. According to Michelet and other authorities there were ten thousand alleged witches for each alleged wizard! and anyhow there is little […]

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John Law : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : John Law by Bram Stoker John Law The Mississippi Scheme And Its Antecedents The great “Mississippi Scheme” which wrought havoc on the French in 1720 is the central and turning point in the history of John Law, late of Lauriston, Controller-General of Finance in […]

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The Wandering Jew : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Legend The Wandering Jew by Bram Stoker The Wandering Jew The legend of the Wandering Jew has its roots in a belief in the possibility of human longevity beyond what is natural and normal. It is connected with the story of the Crucifixion […]

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Mesmer : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Practitioners of Magic Mesmer by Bram Stoker Mesmer Although Frederic-Antoine Mesmer made an astonishing discovery which, having been tested and employed in therapeutics for a century, is accepted as a contribution to science, he is included in the list of impostors because, however sound his […]

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Cagliostro : Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker Famous Impostors : Practitioners of Magic Cagliostro by Bram Stoker Cagliostro The individual known to history as Comte Cagliostro, or more familiarly as Cagliostro, was of the family name of Balsamo and was received into the Church under the saintly name of Joseph. The familiarity of history is […]

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