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ſeen ſomething, and that they are very ſure they are not ſure what it is.
An Imaginary Apparition the effect of Fraud, from
the Secrets of the inviſible world laid open
A Perſon who kept a lodging houſe near the ſprings, at aix-la-Chapelle having loſt his wife, committed the management of his family to his daughter, a ſprightly well made handſome girl, about twenty.
There was at that time in the houſe two ladies and their waiting woman, two Dutch, officers and a Dominican friar.
It happened that as the young woman of the houſe was aſleep one night in her bed, ſhe was awakened by ſomething that attempted to draw the clothes off the bed, ſhe was at firſt frighted, but thinking, upon recollection, that it might be the houſe dog, ſhe called him by his name: The cloaths however, were ſtill pulled from her, and ſhe ſtill imagining it was by the dog, took up a bruſh that lay in her reach, and attempted to ſtrike him. At that moment ſhe ſaw a flaſh of ſudden light that filled the whole room; upon which ſhe ſhrieked out, at the ſame time covering her face with the ſheet: When ſhe again ventured to look out, all was dark and ſilent, and the cloaths were no longer drawn from her.
In the morning when ſhe related this ſtory every one treated it as a dream, and the girl herſelf at laſt took it for granted, that it was no more than an illuſion.
