Of Ghosts and Spirits The two main causes are that they imagine they see or hear proceedeth either melancholy, madness, weakness of the senses, fear, or of some other perturbation. The other cause the writer explains is when they see or hear beasts, vapors, or some other natural things, then they vainly suppose they have seen sights I wot not what. Those suffering of melancholy are not believed at all because the sights or sounds …showed first 75 words of 221 total…

…showed last 75 words of 221 total…partakers or eternal damnation. The souls do not vanish away and die with the body, as Epicurus' opinion is, neither yet be in every place, as some do imagine. The correct explanation for true "ghost" phenomena is, If it be not a vain persuasion proceeding through weakness of the senses, through fear, or some such like cause, or if it be not deceit of men or some natural thing. In most cases these ghosts are