Letters of Demonology and Witchcraft . Harpers Stereotype Edition. / ! I LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT. ADDRESSED TO J. G. LOCKfiART, ESQ. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART l^liAO NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, N O. 8 2 C L I F F - STREET. -D1SCIPLIANA LIBRARYATUjjWC CHRISTIAN ,WILSON, N. C.^Atlantic Chrl^im C«!W Library i CONTENTS. LETTER L Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind—The Belief in the Immortality of the Soul is the main Inducementto credit its occasional Reappearance—The philosophical Objectionsto the Apparition of an abstract Spirit lit
Letters of Demonology and Witchcraft . Harpers Stereotype Edition. / ! I LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT. ADDRESSED TO J. G. LOCKfiART, ESQ. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART l^liAO NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, N O. 8 2 C L I F F - STREET. -D1SCIPLIANA LIBRARYATUjjWC CHRISTIAN ,WILSON, N. C.^Atlantic Chrl^im C«!W Library i CONTENTS. LETTER L Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind—The Belief in the Immortality of the Soul is the main Inducementto credit its occasional Reappearance—The philosophical Objectionsto the Apparition of an abstract Spirit little understood by the Vulsarand Ignorant—The Situationsof excited Passion incident to Humanity,which teach Men to wish or apprehend supernatural Apparitions—They are often presented by the sleeping Sense—Story of Somnam-bulism—The Influence of Credulity contacious, so that Individualswill trust the Evidence of others in despite of their own Senses-Examples from the Historia Verdadera of Bernal Bias del Castillo,and
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