Volume I Part 11 (1/2)
I.N.D.N.J.C. Dissertatio Juridica de Lamiis earumque processu criminali, _Von Hexen und dem Peinl. Proce wider dieselben_, Quam, auxiliante Divina Gratia, Consensu et Authoritate Magnifici JCtorum Ordinis in ill.u.s.tribus Athenis Salanis sub praesidio Magnifici, n.o.bilissimi, Amplissimi, Consultissimi, atque Excellentissimi Dn.
Ernesti Frider. _Schroeter_ hereditarii in _Wickerstadt_, JCti et Antecessoris hujus Salanae Famigeratissimi, Consiliarii Saxonici, Curiae Provincialis, Facultatis Juridicae, et Scabinatus a.s.sessoris longe Gravissimi, Domini Patroni Praeceptoris et Promotoris sui nullo non honoris et observantiae cultu sancte devenerandi, colendi, publicae Eruditorum censurae subjicit Michael Paris _Walburger_, Groebziga Anhaltinus, in Acroaterio JCtorum ad diem 1. Maj. A. 1670.
Editio Tertia. Jenae, Typis Pauli Ehrichii, 1707.
Histoire de Diables de Loudun, ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, et de la condemnation et du suplice d'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme ville. Cruels effets de la Vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu. A Amsterdam Aux depens de la Compagnie. M.DCC.LII.
A view of the Invisible World, or General History of Apparitions.
Collected from the best Authorities, both Antient and Modern, and attested by Authors of the highest Reputation and Credit. Ill.u.s.trated with a Variety of Notes and parallel Cases; in which some Account of the Nature and Cause of Departed Spirits visiting their former Stations by returning again into the present World, is treated in a Manner different to the prevailing Opinions of Mankind. And an Attempt is made from Rational Principles to account for the Species of such supernatural Appearances, when they may be suppos'd consistent with the Divine Appointment in the Government of the World. With the sentiments of Monsieur Le Clerc, Mr. Locke, Mr.
Addison, and Others on this important Subject. In which some humorous and diverting instances are remark'd, in order to divert that Gloom of Melancholy that naturally arises in the Human Mind, from reading or meditating on such Subjects Ill.u.s.trated with suitable Cuts.
London: Printed in the year M,DCC,LII. [Mainly from DeFoe's ”History of Apparitions.”]
Satan's Invisible World discovered; or, a choice Collection of Modern Relations, proving evidently, against the Atheists of this present Age, that there are Devils, Spirits, Witches and Apparitions, from Authentic Records, Attestations of Witnesses, and undoubted Verity.
To which is added that marvellous History of Major Weir and his Sister, the Witches of Balgarran, Pittenweem and Calder, &c. By George Sinclair, late Professor of Philosophy in Glasgow. No man should be vain that he can injure the merit of a Book; for the meanest rogue may burn a City or kill a Hero; whereas he could never build the one, or equal the other. Sir George M'Kenzie, Edinburgh: Sold by P. Anderson, Parliament Square. M.DCC.Lx.x.x.
La Magie et l'Astrologie dans I'Antiquite et au Moyen Age, ou etude sur les superst.i.tions paennes qui se sont perpetuees jusqu'a nos jours. Par L.F. Alfred Maury. Troisieme Edition revue et corrigee.
Paris: Didier. 1864.
[99] Lucian, in his ”Liars,” puts this opinion into the mouth of Arignotus. The theory by which Lucretius seeks to explain apparitions, though materialistic, seems to allow some influence also to the working of imagination. It is hard otherwise to explain how his _simulacra_, (which are not unlike the _astral spirits_ of later times) should appear in dreams.
Quae simulacra....
.... n.o.bis vigilantibus obvia mentes terrificant atque in somnis, c.u.m saepe figuras contuimur miras simulacraque luce carentum quae nos horrifice languentis saepe sopore excierunt.
_De Rer. Nat._ IV. 33-37, ed. Munro.
[100] Pliny's Letters, VII. 27. Melmoth's translation.
[101] Something like this is the speech of Don Juan, after the statue of Don Gonzales has gone out:
”Pero todas son ideas Que da a la imaginacion El temor; y temer muertos Es muy villano temor.
Que si un cuerpo n.o.ble, vivo, Con potencias y razon Y con alma no se tema, Quien cuerpos muertos temio?”
_El Burlador de Sevilla_, A. iii. s. 15.
[102] Theatre Francais au Moyen Age (Monmerque et Michel), pp. 139, 140.
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