The secret book of the black arts : containing all that is known upon the occult sciences of daemonology, spirit rappings, witchcraft, sorcery, astrology, palmistry, mind reading, spiritualism, table turning, ghosts and apparitions, omens, lucky and unlucky signs and days, dreams, charms, divination, second sight, mesmerism, clairvoyance, psychological fascination, etc. : also giving full information about the wonderful arts of transmuting base to precious metals and the actual manufacture of the precious gems, such as jasper, ruby, emerald, onyx, amethyst, sapphire, etc., etc. : together with a mass of other matter, giving inner views of the arts and sciences, whether recondite and obscure, or plain and practical