Excerpt from Odic-Magnetic LettersDID you ever see a ghost? At least some Of your familiar acquaintances have seen them. Many persons whom you know by name have Seen them, very respectable people too, serious, honest, sensible and stout-hearted as men need be. The Old belief in ghosts is cherished by many Of those whom you meet every day in society, perhaps they are ashamed to confess it, but they still have-the belief, and if you get them in a confidential humor and approach them in the right manner, you may hear some of them tell very strange things, Did you ever read Mrs. Crowe's nag/it Side of Nature? And Stilling's Pneumatology? They are earnest pleas for the doctrine Of ghosts, or rather they are collections of ghost stories, interspersed with a few arguments to defend the truth and genuine ness of the stories. Stilling was a devout and much esteemed German author, a friend of Goethe. Mrs. Crowe is a lady of excellent standing in society and a novellist of reputation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.