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1Author:  Scott, WalterRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: 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 Organ s — 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 Pleasure — Of Nicolai, the German Bookseller and Philosopher — Of a Patient of Dr. Gregory — Of an Eminent Scottish Lawyer, deceased — Of this same fallacious Disorder are other instances, which have but sudden and momentary endurance — Apparition of Maupertuis — Of a late illustrious modern Poet — The Cases quoted chiefly relating to false Impressions on the Visual Nerve, those upon the Ear next considered — Delusions of the Touch chiefly experienced in Sleep — Delusions. of the Taste — And of the Smelling — Sum of the Argument.
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