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 historiographers reporte, that =Castor= and =Pollux= haue béen
often séene in battailes sitting on white horses, & valiantly
fighting against yͤ enemies campe. =Plutarch= writeth in
=Coriolanus= life, that they were séene in the battaile against
=Tarquinius=, and that immediatly after, they bare tidings to _Rome_
of the victory. The selfe same writeth =Titus Liuius= also in his
8.booke of his first decade. We may reade in the history of the siege
of the noble citie of _Magdeburge_ in _Saxonie_, that the enimie
which laide siege to the towne, so often as the citizens issued out
to skirmish with them, supposed that one vpō a white horse came
riding before the citizens battaile, when as the citizens themselues
sawe no such man. =Iosephus= in his bookes of the warres in _Iurie_,
recordeth what straunge signes hapned before the destructiō of
=Ierusalem=: which were, that a brasen gate being fast rampierd
with barres, opened in the night time of his owne accord. And that
before the Sunne set, there were séene chariots in the aire, and
armies of men well furnished, enuironing the citie rounde about. And
that at Whitsontide, as the priests entred the temple to celebrate
diuine seruice, they heard a great noise, and by & by a voice crying
=Migremus hinc=. Let vs depart hence. He reckeneth vp other like
things, which we néede not repeate in this place. The same night that
=Leo= of =Constantinople= was slayne in the temple, the trauellers by
sea heard a voice in the aire which said: that =Leo= had roared out
euen to the same place.
[Sidenote: Felix Malleolus.]
=Felix Malleolus= doctor of both yͤ lawes, master of =Solodor=, &
canon at =Tigurū=, a mā of great reading, as it may easily apeare
by his lerned writings which ar yet extāt. (For he liued about yͤ
time whē yͤ Coūcell of =Basil= was holdē) writeth in his booke
=de nobilitate=, =c.=30. yͭ it is to be séen in yͤ historie of
=Rodulphus= king of the Romanes, that when the said =Rodulphus= had
vanquished =Othotarus=, King of _Boemia_, continuing on the place all
night, where the battell was fought, about midnight, certain Spirits
or Deuils, with horrible noise and tumulte, troubled and disordered
his whole armie. And that those were spirits walking by night, it
appeared hereby, that they sodeynly vanished away like smoake.
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