Edmund Jones (1702 93) was a Welsh Independent minister, Calvinist, visionary, prophet, topographer, and religious historian. Like many Protestant Reformers and Puritan divines before him, Jones was fascinated by the occult. Throughout his life he amassed what he believed to be convincing evidence for the existence of good and evil apparitions (including ghosts, demons, fairies, witches, angels, and giants) and of the invisible world .

"The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales" contains the testimonies of many witnesses to supernatural encounters in seventeenth- and...