phantasma

And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2018

II.36 phantasma: a vision of things that are not.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

Thou hast imprinted on our being, O God, such singular phantasma of inconsequence, and hast made to rise such strange phenomena.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

He decided at last to extinguish it, and repeated the stanza he had already heard sung that evening in chapel: Procul recedant somnia Et noctium phantasmata, Hostemque nostrum comprime, Ne polluantur corpora.

From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

The phantasmata vary, but the invisible what?—or who?—remains the same.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

If you know anything of ecclesiastical Latin, the words noctium phantasmata may perhaps occur to you, and the whole field of demonology in connection with the Fraternity will open before you.

From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite

Somnambulism and other nocturnal deceptions frequently lend their aid to the formation of such phantasmata as are formed in this middle state, betwixt sleeping and waking.

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott