| Summary: |
- Summary by:
- Pat Deveney
- Title:
- Almanach Prophetique.
- Subtitle:
- Pittoresque et Utile, pour [1841].
- Motto:
- Other Titles:
- Published:
- 1841-1897
- Frequency:
- Annual
- Location:
- Paris, France.
- Language:
- French.
- Editor(s):
- Originally: "by the author of Nostradamus," then "by the nephew of Nostradamus".
- Publisher(s):
- Lavigne; Librairie Aubert; Susse Frères.
- Corporate Author:
- Succession:
- Description:
1/1, 1841-1897. 50 centimes. The volumes were numbered for the year covered and were published the preceding year. The journal contained the usual matters found in almanacs (full moons, significant civil and church dates and calendars, eclipses, meteors, etc.) but also had regular articles on methods of predicting the future, chiromancy, arithmomancy ("calculs cabalistiques et combinaisons numerales de l'annee"), snake charmers, charlatanism, prophetic dreams, ecstasies, tables tournantes/parlantes, etc. Excerpts from Colin de Plancy on "The Beings of the Spirit World" and Gougenaux de Mousseax on spectres, etc. Profusely illustrated with plates on the various subjects covered.
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