Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 8

Name: Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 8
ISBN: 9781003074052

doi:10.4324/9781003074052

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Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 8

ABSTRACT

The publication of the 44-volume Works of Daniel Defoe continues with this collection of Defoe's satirical poetry and fantasy writings, and writings on the supernatural.

Of the many strange Inconveniences and ill Consequences which would attend us in this World, if the Souls of Men and Women, unembodyed and departed, were at Liberty to visit the Earth, from whence they had been dismiss’d, and to concern themselves about Human Affairs, either such as had been their own, or that were belonging to other People.

chapter Chap. VIII|30 pages

The Reality of Apparition farther asserted; and what Spirits they are that do really appear

chapter Chap. IX|16 pages

More Relations of particular Facts, proving the Reality of Apparitions; with some just Observations on the Difference between the good and evil Spirits, from the Errand or Business they come about. 221

chapter Chap. X|7 pages

Of the different Nature of Apparitions; how we should behave to them; when to be afraid of or concern’d about them, and when not

chapter Chap. XI|41 pages

Of Apparitions in Dream, and how far they are or are not real Apparitions

chapter Chap. XII|33 pages

Of Apparitions being said to happen just at the time when the Person so happening to appear is said to be departing; the Fiction of it confuted

chapter Chap. XIII|20 pages

Of the Consequence of this Doctrine; and seeing that Apparitions are real, and may be expected upon many Occasions, and that we are sure they are not the Souls of our departed Friends; how are we to act, and how to behave to them, when they come among us, and when they pretend to be such and such, and speak in the first Person of those departed Friends, as if they were really themselves?

Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 8

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |35 pages

Introduction

part |273 pages

An Essay 2 on the History and Reality of Apparition

chapter |2 pages

The Preface

chapter |5 pages

The History and Reality of Apparitions.

chapter Chap. I|7 pages

Of Apparitions in particular, the Reality of them, their Antiquity, and the Difference between the Apparitions of former Times, and those which we may call Modern; with something of the Reason and Occasion of that Difference.

chapter Chap. II|3 pages

55Of the Appearance of Angels immediately in Mission as from Heaven; and why we are to suppose those kinds of Apparitions are at an End.

chapter Chap. III|3 pages

Of the Appearance of the Devil in Humane Shape.

chapter Chap. IV|13 pages

Of the Apparition of Spirits Unembodied, and which never were Embodied; not such as are vulgarly called Ghosts, that is to say, departed Souls returning again and appearing visibly on Earth, but Spirits of a superior and angelick Nature; with an Opinion of another Species.

chapter Chap. V|10 pages

Of the Appearance of Departed Unembodied Soul.

chapter Chap. VI|25 pages

Of the Manner How the Spirits of every Kind, which can or do appear among us, manage their Appearance; and How they proceed.

chapter Chap. VII|19 pages