Volume 1

An essay on the history and reality of apparitions. Being an account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not. As also how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits and how we ought to behave to them. With a great variety of surprizing and diverting examples, never publish'd before / [Anon].

  • Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Date:
M DCC XXVII
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Credit: An essay on the history and reality of apparitions. Being an account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not. As also how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits and how we ought to behave to them. With a great variety of surprizing and diverting examples, never publish'd before / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    y o ¥ ‘. = ya Z : TTR, ae > WES BV ds ASRS FANNY 94 » = ‘, “ N 5 (A Y GIOkS V2 LAS 4 i x LISS) | NTRODUCTION. Of Apparitions in General : the Certainty and Nature of them. Page t Chap. I. Of Apparitions in particular, the Reality of them, their Antiquity, and the Difference between the Apparitions of former Times, and thofe which we may call Modern; with fomething of the Reafon and Occafion of that Difference. p. 8 Chap. IT. Of the Appearance of Angels immediately _ in Miffion as from Heaven; and why we are to fuppofe thofe kinds of Apparitions are at ar ie p- 18 Chap. III. Of the Appearance of the Devil in Humane . Shape. Pp. 2s Chap. IV. Of the Apparition of Spirits Unembodied, and which never were Embodied; not fuch as ave vulgarly calPd Ghofis, that is to [ays departed Souls returning again and appearing vifibly on Earth, but Spirits of a fuperior and angelick Nature; with au Opinion of another Species. p- 2