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Letters on demonology and witchcraft

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Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind — The Belief in the Immortality of the Soul is the main Inducement to credit its occasional re-appearance — 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 apprehend Supernatural Apparitions — They are often presented by the Sleeping Sense — Story of Somnambulism— The Influence of Credulity contagious, so that Individuals will trust the Evidence of others in despite of their own Senses — Examples from the Historia Verdadera of Bernal Dias del Castillo, and from the Works of Patrick Walker — The apparent Evidence of Intercourse with the Supernatural World is sometimes owing to a depraved State of the bodily Organs — Difference between this Disorder and Insanity, in which the Organs retain their tone, though that of the Mind is lost — Rebellion of the Senses of a Lunatic against the current of his Reveries — Narratives of a contrary nature, in which the Evidence of the Eyes overbore the Conviction of the Understanding— Example of a London Man of Pleasur

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nrlf_ucb:GLAD-17051386

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: [London, J. Murray and T. Tegg., 2024

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cdl; americana

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English

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591676382

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Demonology
Witchcraft

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Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832

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Suwardi

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https://archive.org/details/demonology00scotrich/page/n8/mode/1up

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Suwardi

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urn:oclc:record:1043023466

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