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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TraceyB, post: 3156206, member: 17017&quot;]Interesting. [USER=56]@moreotherstuff[/USER] I don&#039;t think I will try and read at night time. It&#039;s quite creepy. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I found this on Wikipedia...</p><p>The <i>Apparition of Mrs. Veal</i> is the most famous example<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-Gothic_Documents-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-Gothic_Documents-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> of a well-established genre at the time, that of the &quot;apparition narrative&quot;, which flourished in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a> The genre had similarities to later ghost stories and gothic fiction, but differed from both in its philosophical starting point. The subject of &quot;apparitions&quot; was not necessarily regarded as supernatural – a category that was still evolving at the time – nor were they taken to be spirits of the dead, a concept which contemporary English Protestant writers (not least Defoe himself, in his <i>History and Reality of Apparitions</i>) strongly rejected.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-9" rel="nofollow">[9]</a> They were taken to be literally &quot;appearances&quot; in which &quot;a spirit may vest it self with Flesh and Blood&quot;, as Defoe put it; a form with apparently solid substance but no actual person present.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apparition_of_Mrs._Veal#cite_note-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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