Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night: And of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, Which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of KingdomsLavater, Ludwig
Religion
Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night: And of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, Which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdoms
Lavater, Ludwig
Apparitions -- Early works to 1800
The same =Plutarke= writeth in the life of =Cimon=, that when the
citizens of =Cherouesus=, had by faire words called home their
captaine =Damon=, (who before for diuers murthers departed the citie)
afterwards they cruelly slew him in a Hotehouse, as he was bathing
himselfe, and from that time foorth, there were many strange sightes
séene in the same place, & many times also most gréeuous gronings
were there heard, insomuch that they were euer after constreined to
stop vp the hotehouse doores.
Also in yͤ life of =Dion=, he reporteth that the saide =Dion= being
a stoute & a couragious man without any feare, sawe notwithstanding
a great and maruellous horrible sight. For when he chaunced to sit
alone in the entry of his house in the euening (those are =Plutarks=
owne words, as =Xiliander= interpreteth them) musing & discoursing
many things with himselfe, being sodeinly moued with a great noyse,
he arose and looked backe to the other side of the gallerie, and
there he espied a monstrous great woman, who in apparell and
countenaunce nothing differing from a Tragi, call furie, swept the
house with a broome. With the which sight being amazed & terribly
afraide, he called his friends and acquaintance vnto him, and
declaring vnto them what he had séene, desired thē to remaine with
him al that night: for béeing as it were stricken dead with feare,
he doubted least it would appeare vnto him againe, if he were alone,
which indéede neuer hapned after. But a fewe daies after, his sonne
threwe himselfe headlong from the top of the house, and died, and he
himselfe being stabbed through the bodie, ended his miserable life.
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Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night: And of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, Which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdoms — John Shaqi
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