Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism is a satirical print by the English artist William Hogarth. It ridicules secular and religious credulity, and lampoons...

Collins, Jack. "Real Times". University of Santa Barbara. California. 1993. Media related to Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism at Wikimedia Commons...

Consultation (1726) and Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1762). Mary Toft was a woman who convinced many medical professionals and the public at the...

the credulous city-folk. Hogarth made his own observations of the Cock Lane ghost, with obvious references in Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism (1762)...

doctors taken in by Mary Toft, a subject revisited in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism [106] The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver (1726)...

likewise attacked Methodists as "enthusiasts" full of "Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism". Other attacks against the Methodists were physically...

included the dog in several works, including his 1745 self-portrait Painter and his Pug, held by the Tate Gallery. In the words of the Tate's display caption...

attack on Methodism in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1762); his political anti-war satire in The Times, plate I (1762); and his pessimistic view...

supposed always to be flying about singing psalms." (See Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism) The other paintings on the walls all are of catastrophe...

was studied in detail; under intense scrutiny and producing no more rabbits she confessed to the hoax, and was subsequently imprisoned as a fraud. The resultant...

Hogarth likewise attacked Methodists as enthusiasts full of "Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism". Other attacks against the Methodists were physically...

The series depicts the fictional Tom Rakewell's decline and fall. He was the free spending son and heir of a rich merchant. In the story, he comes to London...

who was infirm; and Ann Price (aged about 17). In February 1733 the three women were found murdered and their apartment burgled, and Malcolm was brought...

exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets...

audacity" and "ignorant credulity". When writing about India, he declares, "It is time for us to give up the shameful habit of slandering all sects and insulting...

(London, 1835, three editions). Three further volumes on scepticism, credulity, and the corruption of morals were included in the author's plan of a 'morbid...

exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets...

disconnection with immediate physical reality and propensity to see highly improbable things with enhanced credulity. Such subclinical dissociation is usually...

great sympathetic and religious chains." His magical teachings were free from obvious fanaticisms, even if they remained rather obscure; and he had nothing...

le Prophète, literally "Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet") is a five-act tragedy written in 1736 by French playwright and philosopher Voltaire. It...

Proctor and George Burroughs, as described by Calef. Poole cites various school textbooks: ("Calef, a citizen of Boston, exposed Mather's credulity, and greatly...

(Scandalchronik): superstition, fanaticism, and human passion. This spirit is particularly characteristic of Spittler, Grundriss der Gesch. der christl. Kirche" and Henke...

was being issued by evil people who were trying to heat up religious fanaticism and gain a cushy job at a new church. The believers presented their case...