They which saile on the great Ocean sea, make report, that in certaine places, where the =Anthropophagi= do inhabit, are many spirits, which doo the people there very much harme.
Here many straunge things might be brought concerning visions appearing vnto men in their sléepe: and also of them, which being in a traunce, haue lyen a whole day and more without mouing, lyke vnto dead men: and after being restored to themselues againe, haue told many miraculous things which they haue séene.
=Cicero= writeth of maruellous things in his booke of diuination, or soothsaying. And so do many other men also. Augustine himselfe reciteth in many places of his bookes, that some after they were dead, haue warned many their friends of diuers matters, and haue disclosed vnto them secrete things, which were to come, and haue shewed sicke folkes good remedies for their diseases, and haue done many such like things.
=Auenzoar Albumato=, a Phisitian of _Arabia_, writeth, that he receiued an excellent medicine for his sore eyes, of a Phisitian lately deceased, appearing vnto him in his sléep: as =Marcilius Ficinus= doth testifie, writing of the immortalitie of the soule. =Lib. 16. cap. 5.=
The holy Scriptures also teach vs, that God hath reuealed many things vnto men by dreames. =S. Mathew= in his first and second chapter writeth, that the Angell of God appeared many times vnto =Ioseph=, our Sauiour Christes foster father in a dreame, and commaunded him to beware of those which laie in wayt to destroy Christ Iesus.
We reade in the tenth Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, that S. =Peter= fell into a traunce, sawe the heauens open, and sawe a vessell, as it were a great shéete, descend downe vnto him from heauen, knit togither at the foure corners, wherein were all maner of foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beasts, and créeping things, and foules of the heauen. And there came a voyce vnto him: Rise =Peter=, kill and eate.
And in the 16. Chapter, as S. =Paul= was yet in _Asia_, comming downe towardes _Troada_, this vision appeared vnto him: There stoode a man of _Macedonia_ and prayed him, saying: Come into _Macedonia_ and helpe vs. Hereby =Paule= gathered, it was the will of God, that he should passe the sea, and should preach the Gospell in _Macedonia_.