After what sort they should behaue themselues, whiche see good or euil spirits, or meete with other straunge aduentures: and first how Iewes and Gentiles behaued themselues in the like cases.
[Sidenote: What the Gētiles did when they sawe spirits.]
That we may rightly vnderstand how we ought to behaue our selues, if any thing either good or euill, appeare vnto vs, we wil first declare how the Gentiles and Iewes vsed themselues in like cases. Amongst the Gentiles, not only those wandring spirits beare men in hand that they were mens soules, but also shewed what were good and expedient for them to doo for their sake, to wit, that they should do sacrifices for their soules, obserue their obsequies, burie their bodies, erect Temples, make holy dayes, and such like stuffe. =Suetonius= writeth, that the Emperor =Caligule= his bodie was priuily conueyed into the gardeins called _Lamiam_, and there with a hastie fire being but halfe consumed, was cast into a pit, and couered with a litle earth. But afterwards, whē his sisters returned from exile, it was taken vp, and thorowly burnt, and afterward solemnly buried. But before they had so done, the gardē kéepers were very much troubled with appearing of spirites. And moreouer, no man could passe any night in the same house where he was slaine, without some great feare, vntil such time as the house was vtterly destroyed with fire.
[Sidenote: Septimæ Tricessimæ Anniuersaria.]
We read also in other writers, that the ghostes of them which were not orderly buried, or whose accustomed rites and ceremonies in the time of warres were omitted, did appeare either to their friendes or vnto others, complayning and intreating that their funerals, and all other ceremonies might be obserued for their sake: whereof came the hearses, wéekemindes, monthmindes, and anniuersaries, whereof we reade many things in the Ethnike writers, and many things are recited out of the olde Poets, and in =Lilius Giraldus=, in his booke _De sepultura_, and also in =Polid. Virgilius= _De Inuentione rerum.lib.6.cap.10_. We haue shewed before in the second part and first Chapter, that some haue desired others, that they might bee buried after that they were dead. =Cicero= writeth in his 1. booke _De legibus_, that =Romulus= the first founder of _Rome_, walking after his death not farre from =Atticus= house, appeared vnto =Iulius Proculus=, and told him that he was now a god, and that his name was =Quirinus=, and therwith commanded that there should be a Temple erected and dedicated vnto him in the same place.