Demonology and Witchcraft (Classic Reprint)

Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind The Belief in the Immortality of theS oul is the main inducement to credit its occasional reappearance The Philosophical Objections to the Apparition of an Abstract Spirit little understood by the Vulgar and Ignorant The situations of excited Passion incident to Humanity, which teach men to wish or apprehendS upernatural Apparitions They are often presented by theS leeping Sense Story of Somnambulism The Influence of Credulity contagious, so that Individuals will trust theE vidence of others in despite of their ownS enses Examples from the Historia Verdadera of Bernal Dias del Castillo, and from theW orks of Patrick Walker The apparent Evidence of Intercourse with theS upernatural World is sometimes owing to a depraved State of the bodily Organs Difference between this Disorder and I nsanity, in vhich theO rgans retain their tone, though that of theM indis lost Rebellion of theS enses of a Lunatic against the current of his Reveries Narratives of a contrary Nature, in which .
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