Cagnet Bombec of Jonquieres
A song detailing an operation in Alectromancy. (See Alectromancy.)
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cagnet Bombec of Jonquieres, Cahill, Caicos.
Cahagnet, Alphonse
A French cabinet-maker who became interested in somnambulic phenomena about the year 1845, and thenceforward recorded and analysed the trance utterances of various somnambules. His Arcanes de la vie future devoilées, published in January, 1848, contained much information concerning the various spheres, and the conditions under which discarnate siprits lived. This was followed in 1849 by a second volume, describing séances held with Adéle Maginot. Through this medium sitters could communicate with their deceased friends or with those who were far away, evidences of clairvoyance, diagnosis and cure of disease were given, and, in short, all the phenomen of American-French mediumship were anticipated. A third volume of Arcanes was published later. Cahagnets' work is notable in many ways. His own good faith was transparent, he took great pains to procure the written testimony of the sitters, and thus the trance utterances of his somnambules are among the best attested of their kind.
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Cahill
THADDEUS, an American inventor, born in Iowa in 1867. He studied at Oberlin College, took a law course at George Washington University, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. His natural bent was toward mechanics, however, and he never engaged in law practice. He invented electric typewriter and the telharmonium, a contrivance that produces music electrically by vibrations transmitted by dynamos from a central station to receiving ving telephones.
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Caicos
a group of islands belonging geographically to the Bahamas, but annexed in 1874 to Jamaica. The North, West, East, Grand, and other Caicos, have, together with Turk Islands, an area of 223 square miles. Pop. about 6,000. Salt and sponges are their chief products. French
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Cailleach, or Harvest Old Wife
In the Highlands of Scotland , there is to be found the belief that whoever is last with his harvesting will be saddled with the Harvest Old Wife to keep until the next year. The first farmer to be done, made a doll of some blades of corn, which was called the "old wife," and sent it to his nearest neighbour. He, in turn, when finished, sent it on to another, and so on until the person last done had the "old woman to keep. Needless to say this fear acted as a spur to the superstitious Highlanders. (See Scotland .) "
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Cain
the first-born of the human race, and the first murderer. He became an outcast, traveling to the E. of Eden, where he built a city and had a son, named Enoch. The Jewish tradition is that he was slain by Enoch.
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Cairo (City port of entry)
a city port of entry, and county-seat of Alexander county, Ill.; at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and on the Illinois Central, the Mobile and Ohio, the St. Louis, Iron 4 1114 Mountain and Southern, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads; 150 miles S. E. of St. Louis. It is the trade center of southern Illinois, and has freight and passenger steamer communications with all river ports, important manufactures, daily and weekly newspapers, national banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 14,548; (1920) 15,203.
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Cairo (EGYPT library containing)
EGYPT library containing a splendid collection of illuminated copies of the Koran; a magnetic observatory, and the Mohammedan college of El Ahzar (originally a mosque), the principal university of the Mohammedan world, attended by 8,000 to 10,000 students from all parts of the East. The suburb of Masr-el-Atîqa, or Old Cairo (first called Fostat, "tenttown"), was the site of the original Cairo, founded about 642 by the Sultan Amru, the town on the present site, a little to the N. of Old Cairo, not having been founded till about 970; its citadel was built by Saladin in 1176, and it was the capital of the sultans of Egypt till the time of the Turkish conquest in 1517; since that time it has been the residence of the pashas, governors of the province. It was taken by the French in 1798, and held by them for more than three years. Pop. about 800,000.
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Caithness
a county of Scotland, forming the northernmost part of that country. It has an area of 697 square miles. For the most part it is bare and level and without trees. The sea-coast is indented and has many bays and inlets. The chief products are grain, barley, and vegetables . It has also a considerable fishing industry. The county town is Wick. Pop. about 35,000.
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Caiumarath, or Kaid-mords
According to the Persians, the first man. He lived a thousand years and reigned five hundred and sixty. He produced a tree, from the fruits of which were born the human race. The devil seduced and corrupted the first couple, who after their fall, dressed themselves in black garments and sadly awaited the resurrection, for they had introduced sin into the world.
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Cajamarca
a department in the N. W. of Fru, between the W. chain of the Andes and the Amazon. A railway connects it with the Pacific, and there is a large farming and cattle-raising industry. Area, 12,538 square miles; pop. about 500,000. The capital is Cajamarca; pop., 10,000.
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Cala, Charles
A Calabrian who wrote on the occult in the seventeenth century. He published his Memorie historiche dell'apparitione delle cruce prodigiose da Carlo Cala at Naples in 1661.
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Calabar
a maritime district of west Africa on the bight of Biafra, intersected by two rivers , called respectively Old and New Calabar, under English protection. A large portion of the population ation are employed in the palm-oil trade. Old Calabar or Bongo river is situated about 90 miles nearly due W. from New Calabar river, with a wide estuary opening into the bight of Biafra. This river enters the bight of Biafra at lon. 7° 7' E., and is believed to be one of the numerous terminating branches of the Niger. Duke Town and Creek Town, the chief towns on Old Calabar river, are stations of British missionaries.
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Calabria
a name anciently given to the peninsula at the S. E. extremity of Italy, but now applied to the S. W. peninsula in which Italy terminates , from about lat. 40° N. to the Strait of Messina; area, 5,819 square miles; pop. about 1,500,000. It is divided into three provinces-Cosenza , Reggio, and Catanzaro. The central region is occupied by the great ceat Apennine ridge, to which whole colonies with their cattle migrate in the summer. The flats near the coast are marshy and unhealthy, but the valleys at the foot of the mountains are rich with the most luxuriant vegetation. The country is subject to earthquakes and suffered severely in in 1905 and 1908. Wheat, rice, saffron , anise, liquorice, madder, flax , hemp, olives, almonds, and cotton are raised in abundance. The sugar-cane also comes to perfection here. Sheep, horned cattle, and horses Silkworms are extenare numerous. sively raised. The minerals include alabaster, marble, gypsum, alum, chalk, rock-salt, lapis lazuli, etc. The fisheries are valuable.
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