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Not only are the voices and stature of the demons described by Remy's authorities, but many other extraordinary circumstances are recorded, which might have been omitted with great propriety. The curiosity of the worthy judge seems to have been as unlimited as his credu-. lity. I ought to add, that his book is

de nocte chorea in triviis tum videri ferebantur (la Mequie Hennequin) id est, familiam Hellequinam vocitabant: nam Hellequinos ab incubis Dæmonibus suam traxisse originem non ignobiles Scriptores prodiderunt.

Nicolæa Ganatia, Eva Hesoletia, Jana Nigra Armacuriana, ac pleræque aliæ vocem illis esse aiunt, qualem emittunt, qui os in dolium, aut testam rimosam, insertum habent............Aut certé exilem et debilem, p. 80.

In the 6th chapter, Remy has indulged his curiosity in a most extraordinary, and almost reprehensible

manner.

Ab hoc qui nobis istos concubitus, succubitusque Dæmonum memorant uno ore loquuntur omnes, nihil iis frigidius &c. The other details are too shocking to be repeated, p. 55.

written in Latin, in a good style, and bears marks of considerable erudition.

The result of all these inquiries has been, that recollected images only are presented to the persons labouring under delusions of this nature.

But the most remarkable and decisive narrative of this kind was published, some years ago, by Nicolai, the celebrated author and bookseller, of Berlin. "Those who pretend to have seen and "heard ghosts obstinately maintain, that

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they perceived these apparitions by

means of their senses. In order to "defeat that belief, we generally desire "them to consider how many people have "been imposed on by artful novices, and "how liable we are to deceive ourselves;

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we advise them to lay hold of the sup

posed spectres; assuring them that they "are generally found to be of a very corporeal nature. But those who have a

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predilection for the miraculous, pay no regard to these objections; insisting "that the productions of their disordered

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imaginations are real beings. We can"not therefore collect too many of such "well substantiated facts, as shew how

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easily our imagination imposes on us "erroneous notions, and deludes not only delirious persons but even those "who are in full possession of their facul"ties, by causing them to see phantasms "which scarcely can be distinguished " from real appearances."

"I have myself experienced a case of "this nature, which to me appears highly remarkable, both psychologically and "medicinally; I saw, in a state of mind

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completely sound, and after the first "terror was over, with perfect calmness, "for nearly two months, almost constantly "and involuntarily a vast number of hu"man and other forms, and even heard “their voices, though all this was merely

"the consequence of a diseased state of "the nerves and an irregular circulation " of the blood."

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"It being a matter of considerable importance that an incident of this nature "should be observed with the strictest at"tention, and related, together with all "collateral circumstances, with the most "conscientious fidelity, I shall not omit any thing of which I retain a clear "recollection. The truth of what I am going to advance will not require a far"ther testimony, as Dr. Selle, who was

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my physician and was daily informed "by me of every trifling occurrence and

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change that happened, is still living, "and will, by all who know him, be most readily admitted as an unobjectionable "witness. During the ten latter months of "the year 1790, I had experienced seve"ral melancholy incidents which deeply "affected me, particularly in September, from which time I suffered an almost

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uninterrupted series of misfortunes that "afflicted me with the most poignant grief. "I was accustomed to be bled twice a year, and this had been done once on "the 9th of July, but was omitted to be repeated at the end of the year 1790. "I had, in 1783, been suddenly taken “with a violent vertigo, which my phy"sicians imputed to obstructions in the "finer vessels of the abdomen, brought

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on by a sedentary life and a continual "exertion of the mind. This indisposition "was successfully removed by means of a more regular and strict diet; particu

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larly efficacious in the beginning I had found leeches to the arms, and they "were afterwards repeated two or three "times annually when I felt violent congestions in the head. The last leeches

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" which had been put on, previous to the

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appearance of the phantasms of which "I am about to speak, had been applied on the first of March 1790, less blood "had consequently been evacuated in

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