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... alterations concerning certain revelations challenge this view2. Keith Thomas suggested that "it may be a relatively frivolous question today to ask whether or not one believes in ghosts, it was in the sixteenth century a shibboleth which distinguished Protestant from Catholic almost as effectively as belief in the Massor the Papal Supremacy."3 Yet it was not just catholic and protestant contrasting of views that made he very question of visions and apparitions appear difficult. To append to perplexity, there were scientific claims by natural magicians of visual or sensual revelations being nothing but a trick of the eye. This essay aims to suggests that leading up to the Early modern period in Europe visions and apparitions were already topic for debate yet the reformation added even more reasons to confuse the long going issue religion, philosophy and science each held its part in making the matter of deciding between true ...