CHAPTER V.. Ignorance of Mental Philosophy.

IGNORANCE OF MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

This ignorance a cause of many superstitions.--Case of a person who slept in a bed room supposed to be haunted.--Skeleton seen by moonlight.--Apparition seen by Dr. Gregory.--Case related by Dr. Conolly.--Ship's crew frightened by an apparition.--Young lady supposed to have been murdered by pirates.--Cases of impressions connected with bodily disease.--Phantasms in febrile diseases.--A farmer frightened to death by a light in the road.--A figure like Death striking a lady in her side with a dart.--Illusion of sight and hearing.--Case of a lady who saw her absent husband standing by her side.--Countenance of a friend seen in a mirror.--Tunes heard.--Inverted objects.--Visions of the world of spirits.--Case of Baron Swedenborg.--Case of a lady in Boston, who saw her deceased grandmother.--The phantom ship seen in New Haven.--The science of optics.--Of nauscopy.--Cases of mirage. 38