8o On Popular Illufions. 



" magiftrates appeared, to make their fubmiflion 

 " t^ his Royal Highnefs. I could not have 

 *' believed what I have related, if I had not 

 «' been affured of its truth at Saragoffa, by the 

 ** principal people of the city*." It feems the 

 ligature of armies could no longer be performed, 

 when this remarkable exorcifm took place. 



The principal writers on fpirits, of this 

 country, are Aubrey, More, Glanville, Baxter, 

 Beaumont, and profeflbr Sinclair, of Glafgow, 

 to whom we muft add Mr. Cumberland f a well- 

 known living author, as the lateft fupporter of 

 the do6lrine among us, though he has produced 

 only one hiftory, and that of an old date(R). 



It was mentioned before, that fome fpeftral 

 philofophers accounted for the phenomena of 

 apparitions from demoniacal aftion, but it muft 

 be obferved, that fome believed thofe demons 

 to be material; this v/as the opinion of Pfellus|; 

 Paracelfus fuppofed the elements to be inhabited 

 by four fpecies of demons; fpirits, nymphs, pyg- 

 mies (our fairies) and falamanders ; thefe he reck- 

 oned material, but of a different fubftance from 

 man, that is, of the Caro non-adamica; Cudworth 

 was inclined to think that angels were material \ 

 and Dr. Henry More was fo much preffed with the 

 difficulties which he found in reconciling the 



* Meinoires de Berwick, p.' 398. 

 t Obferver, No. 71. J Cudworth's Int. Syft. 



propofed 



