Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night / And of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, Which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdoms

by Ludwig Lavater

Terriculamenta.

Terriculamenta, are vain visions or sights, which make men afraide. The Latines also call it Terriculum, because it bréedeth feare.

Phantasma.

Mat.24.

Marke 6.

That which S. Matth. 24. and Marke 6. call φαντασμα Erasmus doth translate it Spectrum, but the old interpreter vseth the Gréeke word.

Phasma.

φασμα in like manner doth signifie an elfe, a sighte or vaine apparition. Suidas maketh a difference betwéene Phantasma and Phantasia, saying, that Phantasma is an imagination, an appearance or sight of a thing which is not, as are those sightes which men in their sléepe do thinke they sée: but that Phantasia, is the séeing of that onely which is in very déede.

Pneuma.

Luk.24.