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Samuel Bulfinch Emmons gathers accounts of supernatural appearances, popular superstitions, mesmerism and spirit communication into a wide-ranging nineteenth-century examination. Writing from a Christian perspective, he considers the roles of imagination, dreams, suggestion and mistaken reasoning in experiences attributed to spirits.
The book combines historical anecdotes with discussions of witchcraft, omens, false prophets, spirit knockings and contemporary spiritualist claims. Its notes identify earlier works used in compiling the accounts. This is the complete 1859 Philadelphia edition, retaining the original arrangement, quotations and closing discussions rather than extracting a selection of its supernatural stories.