Excerpt from Apparitions, or the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, Developed: Being a Collection of Entertaining Stories, Founded on Fact, and Selected for the Purpose of Eradicating Those Fears, Which the Ignorant, the Weak, and the Superstitious, Are but Too Apt to Encourage The other stories are selected from history, and respectable publications; forming in the whole, I hepe, an antidote against a too credulous belief in every v'illag we tale, or old gossip' s story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.