Lewd Apparitions
October 23rd, 2007 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfinthewoodI could give an Account of another Person, whom the Devil haunted frequently, and that for many Years together, with lewd Apparitions; tempting him in his Sleep with the Company of beautiful Women, sometimes naked, sometimes even in Bed with him; and at other times in Conversation prompting him to Wickedness, and that sometimes he was prevail’d upon to consent; but always happily prevented by waking in time...
Daniel Defoe (1660?–1731)
from An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (1727)
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