=Lucanus= as well an excellent Historiographer, as also a most learned Poet, reckneth vp many forewarnings, in his first booke of the battaile of =Pharsalia=, which chaunced before the great conflict betwéen =Iulius Cæsar=, and great =Pompeius=: and amongst other things, he writeth thus. _The trumpets blew, and looke euen as the battaile ioynd apace, So did the night with silent shades increase her darkish face. And then the ghosts of_ =Sylla= _fierce, were plainly seene in field, Thereby declaring euil signes, of blood that should be spild. And by the floud of Anien, the husband did spie Great_ =Marius=, _out of broken graue his head aduauncing hie_. CHAP. XIII. A proofe out of the histories of the auncient Church, and of the writings of holie Fathers, that there are walking Spirits. [Sidenote: Sozomenus.] If we read ouer the Ecclesiasticall histories, we shall finde many of these examples. =Sozomenus= writeth in his Ecclesiasticall historie, the sixt booke and 28. chapter, of one =Apelles=, a black Smyth by occupation (whose name was at that time very famous throughout _Egipt_, for the gift of working miracles, wherwith he was indewed) who as he was one night hard at his work, had appearing vnto him, a vision of a Diuel in the likenesse and attire of a very beautifull womā, mouing & intising him to the vice of lechery. But he sodenly catching yͤ iron which he wrought on, glowing hot out of the fire, thrust it in yͤ diuels face, and scorched his visage, wherat he fretting & crying out, in al hast fled away. Likewise in his 7. booke and 23. chap. writing of the sedition raised at _Antioche_, for the immoderat action and tribute which =Theodosius= layd on the citie in the time of warres, whereby the people being offended, ouerthrew the images of the Emperour and his wife, dragging them in roapes about the citie, and reporting all kinde of villany and dispite against them, thus he saith. But in the night before, assoone as the rebellion began, immediatly at the breake of the day, it is certainly reported there was a straunge sight séene, of a woman hauing a huge stature and most horrible looke, running vp and downe the citie through the stréetes aloft in the aire, whisking & beating the aire with a whip, rendring a fearefull sound. That as men are wont to prouoke wilde beasts to anger, which serue for publike spectacles: euen so it séemed, some euil angell by the craft of the diuell stirred vp that commotion amongst the people. [Sidenote: Theodorus.] [Sidenote: Nicephorus.]