Ludouicus Viues.
Ludouicus Viues, saith in his first booke De veritate fides, that in the new world lately found out, there is nothing more common, than not only in the night time, but also at noone in the midday, to sée spirits apparantly, in the Cities and fieldes, which speake, commaund, forbid, assault men, feare and strike them. The very same do other report which describe those nauigations of the great Ocean.
Hieronimus Cardanus.
Hieronimus Cardanus of Millen, excellently séene in Philosophie & Phisicke, remembreth a great many of these apparitions, in his booke De subtilitate, & varietate rerum: which who so listeth to reade, I referre him to his bookes, for I am desirous to be bréefe.
Olaus.
Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Vpsalia in Sueueland, declareth in his history De Gentibus Septentrionalibus, the second booke and third chap. that spirits appeare in Iseland, in the shape & likenesse of such, as men are acquainted withal: whom the inhabitants take by the hand in stead of their acquaintance, before they haue heard any word of those their acquaintāce death, whose similitude and likenesse they take on them, neither do they vnderstand that they are deceiued, before they shrinke and vanish away. These things haue I brought togither both out of the olde and also new writers, that it might plainly appeare, that spirites do oftentimes walke and shewe themselues vnto men.
CHAP. XVI.
Daily experience teach vs, that spirits do appeare to men.