Mysteries of the mind Book

Identical twins separated in infancy are reunited twenty years later. They discover that they have followed similar careers, married remarkably similar women, and both have four-year-old sons and fox terriers named Trixie! A healthy young African tribesman believes he has been put under a curse for violating a taboo--and within hours withers away and dies! An entire nation is swept up in an economic frenzy. Normal occupations are forgotten, crops are neglected as everyone obsessively buys and sells--not diamonds, not gold, not uranium--but tulips! A blind slave boy is mentally defective and incapable of most kinds of learning but at the age of four without musical training he plays Mozart and can reproduce on the piano any piece of music played to him! A St. Louis housewife writes novels and poetry far beyond her mental capabilities--all in a dreamlike state under the dictation of a "voice" named Patience Worth!