…most of this kind of evidence did refer to spirits of the dead. It's interesting in this context to compare for example what Burton in the Anatomy of Melancholy has to say on the subject with what one of the pioneers in the psychical research F.W.H.…

…say on the subject with what one of the pioneers in the psychical research F.W.H. Myers had to say 200 years later Burton in the Anatomy of Melancholy dismisses as self-evidently absurd the idea that a departed spirit could possess what we should now call…