Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor.
- Date:
- 1791
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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