An essay towards a theory of apparitions

ESSAY
TOWARDS
A THEORY
APPARITIONS.
JOHN FERRIAR, M. D.
A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory,
Of calling shapes, and beck’ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues, that syllable men’s names
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound.
Comus, 1. 205.