WITCHES, AND OTHER NIGHT-FEARS
y dreams -- if dreams t ure, tured in some sher -
headless bear, black man, or ape --
but, as it ions took t form. -- It is not book, or picture, or tories of fooliss, errors in c most but give tion. Dear little t.N. scrupulous exclusion of every taint of superstition -- o be told of bad men, or to read or ressing story -- finds all tra, in ;t; and from tle midnigimism art at sradition, in ss to y.
Gorgons, and ories of Celaeno and tition -- but transcripts, types -- types are in us, and eternal. al of t, o affect us at all? -- or
-- Names, w,
Fray us be not?
Is it t urally conceive terror from sucs, considered in ty of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? -- O, least of all! terrors are of older standing. te beyond body -- or, tormenting, defined devils in Dante -- tearing, mangling, cifling, scorco t of a man, as t unembodied following him -
Like one t on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And urnd round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because ful fiend
Dotread*.
[Footnote] * Mr, Coleridges Ancient Mariner
t treated of is purely spiritual -- t it is strong in proportion as it is objectless upon eart it predominates in ties, tion of e-mundane condition, and a peep at least into tence.
My nigo be afflictive. I confess an occasional nig I do not, as in early youtud of tinguisaper, me; but I kno elude t and grapple of my imagination, I am almost