Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

The Library of Economics and Liberty offers a wonderful free online edition of Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay (1814-1889) with a "clickable" Table of Contents which includes the following topics:

• Money Mania.—The Mississippi Scheme
• The South Sea Bubble
• The Tulipomania
• The Alchymists
• Modern Prophecies
• Fortune-Telling
• The Magnetisers
• Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard
• The Crusades
• The Witch Mania
• The Slow Poisoners
• Haunted Houses
• Popular Follies of Great Cities
• Popular Admiration of Great Thieves
• Duels and Ordeals
• Relics