0 The Unseen World; COMMUNICATIONS WITH IT, REAL OR IMAGINARY, INCLUDING APPARITIONS, WARNINGS, HAUNTED PLACES, PROPHECIES, AERIAL VISIONS, ASTROLOGY, &c. &c. by LONDON: JAMES BURNS, 17, PORTMAN STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE. MDCCCXLVII. PREFACE. THE following little book makes no pretence at being a systematic treatise on the subject on which it treats: its aim is to set forth Christian views on a point of popular belief which writers have generally considered worthy of ridicule or pity, or at least susceptible of a natural explanation. With respect to stories hitherto unpublished, the writer has related none which he has not good grounds for believing; and he has endeavoured to state, in each particular account, the degree of evidence by which it is supported. |