Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums > Anyone know what the oldest known book...

kinley

Nov 22 2005, 03:25 PM

on ghosts or spirts is? Just wondering and if anyone know if it was reprinted and mass produced at any time.

Milo

Nov 22 2005, 04:10 PM

don't know if this helps you...
Secret Wisdom
you might try
Bardo Thodol
I think you are looking for something like the NECRONOMICON, unfortunately (for you) its a fictional work...

Craft

Nov 22 2005, 06:58 PM

Boulton, Richard, (1676 or 7- 1724?). A compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft : containing I. The most authentick and best attested relations of magicians, sorcerers, witches, apparitions, spectres, ghosts, daemons, and other preternatural appearances. II. A collection of several scarce and valuable trials of witches ... III. An account of the first rise of the magicians and witches ... IV. A full confutation of all the arguments that have ever been produced against the belief of apparitions, witches, &c. with a judgment concerning spirits, by the late learned Mr. John Locke.

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/occult/xocc.html

kinley

Nov 25 2005, 01:32 AM

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Boulton, Richard, (1676 or 7- 1724?). A compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft : containing I. The most authentick and best attested relations of magicians, sorcerers, witches, apparitions, spectres, ghosts, daemons, and other preternatural appearances. II. A collection of several scarce and valuable trials of witches ... III. An account of the first rise of the magicians and witches ... IV. A full confutation of all the arguments that have ever been produced against the belief of apparitions, witches, &c. with a judgment concerning spirits, by the late learned Mr. John Locke.

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/occult/xocc.html

Thank You. Very helpful.