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Title: The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell
Year: 1748 (1740s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Hill, Thomas, 1661-1734, ill Bond, William, d. 1735, supposed author Wallis, John, 1616-1703 Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, engraver
Subjects: Campbell, Duncan, 1680?-1730
Publisher: London: : Printed for, and sold by James Fleming...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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has been feen butrarely. There were Spirits alfo that appeared inthe fliape of Women, Horfes, Swines, Cats,and fome like fiery Balls, which would fol-low Men in the Fields, but there have beenbut few Inftances of thefe for upwards ofForty Years paft. Thefe Spirits usd alfo to form Sounds inthe Air, refembling thofe of an Harp, Pipes,crowing of a^Cock, and of the grinding ofHand-mills: And fometimes Voices have beenheard in the Air at Night, finging Irijh Songs;the Words of which Songs fome of the Au-thors Acquaintances ftill retain ; one of themrefembled the Voice of a Woman, who diedIbme time before, and the Song related to herState in the other World. All thefe Accounts,the Author fays, he had from Perfons of asgreat Integrity as any are in the World. Sofar Mr. Marten^ whofe Account is fo long,thatI have given the Reader only a flidrt Abridg-ment thereof; and fliall therefore fatisfy myfelf, without relating any further PafTages, bydirecting the Reader to others alfo, learned Men^,
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TcAV^ 0(ii;)(,nia 111 till WooUiKuLP tdkliou llulL-I ortlll r?/iWr.DUNCANCAMPBELr. Ipl Men, who have written on the fame Subjed. Laurentius Ananias printed a Volume in L^jffi^j 2t Venice J Anno 1581, about the Nature of D^nw?is, where, in the Third Book, he writes toncerning the Second-Sight.—The Learned Cafnerarim docs the Uke ; and names a Per- fon of his own Acquaintance, whom he te- ftifies to have had that Gift. St. AnJIin him- felf teftifiesfomething (not very different froni what we now call theGift of the Second-Sight)^ of one Ciirina^ who lived in the Country of Hippo^ m Africa. —Bonayfleau tells us fome- thing like it, in his Bifc, de ExceU. & Dig. HominiSj concerning the Spirit of Hermoti- tnus,—So do likewife Herodotus and Maximns Tyriiis^ about the Spirit of Ariflmts.—Cardan does the fame, in his De Rernm variet. 1. 8. c. 84. of his Kinfman Baptifta Cardan^ a Student at Vaviar—Baptijla Fulgofm tells us of w hat we call the Second-Sight^ in other Words, in hi

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