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Page iii
... APPARITIONS , DREAMS , SECOND SIGHT , SOMNAMBULISM , PREDICTIONS , DIVINATION , WITCHCRAFT , VAMPIRES , FAIRIES , TABLE - TURNING AND SPIRIT - RAPPING . SELECTED BY MARY HOWITT . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . LONDON : HENRY G. BOHN , YORK ...
... APPARITIONS , DREAMS , SECOND SIGHT , SOMNAMBULISM , PREDICTIONS , DIVINATION , WITCHCRAFT , VAMPIRES , FAIRIES , TABLE - TURNING AND SPIRIT - RAPPING . SELECTED BY MARY HOWITT . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . LONDON : HENRY G. BOHN , YORK ...
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... Apparitions to Mr. William Lilly ( Do. ) 369 Mr. Booty and the Ship's Crew ( Do. ) 373 Apparition of Edward Avon to Thomas Goddard ( Do. ) 374 . The Dutchman who could see Ghosts ( Glanvil ) Sir John Sherbroke and General Wynyard ...
... Apparitions to Mr. William Lilly ( Do. ) 369 Mr. Booty and the Ship's Crew ( Do. ) 373 Apparition of Edward Avon to Thomas Goddard ( Do. ) 374 . The Dutchman who could see Ghosts ( Glanvil ) Sir John Sherbroke and General Wynyard ...
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... apparition , high above the topmost , and the hissing sound in the air by the rushing of their wings ; while at once the mountainous waves are stilled , and the already despairing mariners find themselves rescued in immediate proximity ...
... apparition , high above the topmost , and the hissing sound in the air by the rushing of their wings ; while at once the mountainous waves are stilled , and the already despairing mariners find themselves rescued in immediate proximity ...
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... apparition , speedily withdrawing herself again from sight . Minerva is by her nature essentially prophetic . Her mother , Metis - Wisdom - a daughter of Oceanos and Tethys , was the first wife of Zeus . After Metis had withdrawn ...
... apparition , speedily withdrawing herself again from sight . Minerva is by her nature essentially prophetic . Her mother , Metis - Wisdom - a daughter of Oceanos and Tethys , was the first wife of Zeus . After Metis had withdrawn ...
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... apparitions are things familiar to the unfor- tunate inhabitants , who passed their sombre days in con- stant terror and apprehension . Plutarch mentions in particular the British , or rather the islands lying beyond Britain . There lay ...
... apparitions are things familiar to the unfor- tunate inhabitants , who passed their sombre days in con- stant terror and apprehension . Plutarch mentions in particular the British , or rather the islands lying beyond Britain . There lay ...
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