A treatise of specters or straunge sights, visions and apparitions appearing sensibly vnto men. Wherein is delivered, the nature of spirites, angels, and divels: their power and properties: as also of witches, sorcerers, enchanters, and such like. With a table of the contents of the several chapters annexed in the end of the booke. Newly done out of French into English.

Title

A treatise of specters or straunge sights, visions and apparitions appearing sensibly vnto men. Wherein is delivered, the nature of spirites, angels, and divels: their power and properties: as also of witches, sorcerers, enchanters, and such like. With a table of the contents of the several chapters annexed in the end of the booke. Newly done out of French into English.

Author

Loyer, Pierre le, 1550-1634.

Publication

At London :: Printed by Val. S[immes] for Mathew Lownes,

1605.

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Subject terms

Apparitions -- Early works to 1800.

Demonology -- Early works to 1800.

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"A treatise of specters or straunge sights, visions and apparitions appearing sensibly vnto men. Wherein is delivered, the nature of spirites, angels, and divels: their power and properties: as also of witches, sorcerers, enchanters, and such like. With a table of the contents of the several chapters annexed in the end of the booke. Newly done out of French into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05303.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO The Kings most excellent Ma∣ieslie, of great Brytaine, France and Ireland, &c.
• The Epistle of the French Au∣thour to the Queene Mother of the King.
• To the learned Reader.
• A Catalogue of the Authours alledged in the Treatise of Specters.
• A TREATISE OF Specters, strange Sightes, or Apparitions.
  • CAP. I.
  • CAP. II.
  • CAP. III.
  • CAP. IIII.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • That the fantasie corrupted doth receive many false Impressious and Specters, aswel as the senses.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
• A Table of the Contents of the severall Chapters.
• Errata.