Phœnomenon of Dreaming. 141^ith frightful, ghastly apparitions, whicha £ c then obtruded on the imagination; soa t the party is made to fancy that the di-e faper itself proceeds from their pressingl m down with a weight like to stifle him.■^nd for this very reason, the Latins call this"order the Incubus ; as if we should fay, the^trwhelmer, or oppreffor : and the Greek^tste, imports much the fame

^‘ n g- And this, I believe, is allowed to® a casual distemper of the brain, by whichs animal spirits are obstructed. But nowbodily indisposition here, and the dis-a § l 'eeable vision made to accompany it, are^0 very different things: and as it would bea bsurd to make the disorder of the materialQr gan the efficient cause of the apparitions*hat are exhibited along with it; for theseare often ugly phantoms , which to fright usmore, appear to have bad designs upon

Pffa, o r 2sew Dictionary ; where an account of a fur-Pming instance of this disease is given. Macro&ius fays

- In hoc genere f fomniorum ] ejl ipid/da, qusm

Pxblica persuajio quiescentes opinatur invadere, iS pan -ese s uo P r ffi: ac sentient es grave re. In fom. Scip, lib. r.

3- He means the ugly phantoms, which are made0 ac company the pain felt.