CONTENTS.Page.Chapter I.Reality of spectral impressions—General law of the system, to which they may be referred—Division of the subject—Spectral illusions exemplified13Chapter II.A lawyer’s argument for the existence of witchcraft—Proofs of spectral impressions, from recollected perceptions—New England witches—Cardan—Donne—Jonson—The maid of France—and other visionaries30Chapter III.Beaumont’s Visions—Those of Tasso—Kotter—Drabicius—Arise Evans—Bovet69Chapter IV.Medical distinctions of spectral impressions. Sepulchral remedies: Preparations of the human skull—Mumia—Apparition of Ficinus to Michael Mercato—Warning voice to Quarræus—Visions of Dr. Pordage. Latent lunacy; exemplified in the character of Hamlet95Chapter V.Accessory causes of delusion, regarding spectral impressions—Apparition of Desfontaines—Ghosts at Portnedown Bridge—Lucian’s story of a Split Ghost—Instance of a Ghost in two places at once.117
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Chapter I.Reality of spectral impressions—General law of the system, to which they may be referred—Division of the subject—Spectral illusions exemplified
Chapter II.A lawyer’s argument for the existence of witchcraft—Proofs of spectral impressions, from recollected perceptions—New England witches—Cardan—Donne—Jonson—The maid of France—and other visionaries
Chapter III.Beaumont’s Visions—Those of Tasso—Kotter—Drabicius—Arise Evans—Bovet
Chapter IV.Medical distinctions of spectral impressions. Sepulchral remedies: Preparations of the human skull—Mumia—Apparition of Ficinus to Michael Mercato—Warning voice to Quarræus—Visions of Dr. Pordage. Latent lunacy; exemplified in the character of Hamlet
Chapter V.Accessory causes of delusion, regarding spectral impressions—Apparition of Desfontaines—Ghosts at Portnedown Bridge—Lucian’s story of a Split Ghost—Instance of a Ghost in two places at once.