Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

An essay on the history and reality of apparitions. Being an account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not. As also how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits and how we ought to behave to them. With a great variety of surprizing and diverting examples, never publish'd before

by Daniel Defoe

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Subjects: Apparitions

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Wellcome Collection bibliographic record 6 unnumbered leaves, 395 pages : frontispiece, plates ; (8vo)	M DCC XXVII	J. Roberts	English	—	Public digitized item	Wellcome Collection (opens in a new tab) Wellcome Collection (opens in a new tab)