Monday, 13 October 2014

Devotional Somnium

A very interesting case, this: Rachel Baker was a New York woman who created something of a local sensation in the early 18teens by falling asleep and preaching the gospel in her somnific state. These sermons and prayers were collected in Devotional Somnium (1815), together with medical accounts of other sleep-walking cases famous at the time. Here's its title page:

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