The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales

Eighteenth-century Welsh Calvinist minister Edmund Jones's narratives are presented in an updated and accessible form in this book of collected apparitions. The testimonies of many witnesses to supernatural encounters in 17th- and 18th-century Wales, from abductions by fairies to poltergeist activity, are included. Like many Protestant reformers before him, Jones was fascinated by the occult and spent a lifetime gathering what he believed to be incontrovertible evidence of the existence of apparitions. The stories in this work evoke a spiritually dark landscape in which the dead and damned wander, and present a fascinating insight into how the people of the 18th century visualized and feared the spirit world.