The following table sets out the astronomical designations for every apparition of Halley's Comet from 240 BCE, the earliest documented widespread sighting.

The only surviving record of the 164 BCE apparition is found on two fragmentary Babylonian tablets, now owned by the British Museum.

The apparition of 12 BCE was recorded in the Book of Han by Chinese astronomers of the Han Dynasty who tracked it from August through October.

Suddenly there was a commotion upstairs, a despairing boyish shriek, and the strains of the waltz faltered and died as the musicians and guests gaped at an apparition descending the marble staircase.

Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.

Having left his widow expecting a child, the spectre of Kirk told Graham that he would appear at the baptism, whereupon Graham was to throw an iron knife at the apparition, thus freeing Kirk from the Fairies ' clutches.

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

The Old English cognate was dréag (" apparition, ghost ").

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

This recognition of a religious apparition from likeness to an image was also a characteristic of pagan pious accounts of appearances of gods to humans, and was a regular topos in hagiography.

According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.

In October 1817, a tubular, glowing apparition was claimed to have been seen in the Jewel House by the Keeper of the Crown Jewels, Edmund Lenthal Swifte.

When Sister Lúcia was asked in an interview why the Blessed Virgin appeared as Our Lady of Mount Carmel in her last apparition, she replied: " Because Our Lady wants all to wear the Scapular ...

For example, " 1P / 1982 U1, 1986 III, 1982i " indicates that for the perihelion in 1986, Halley's Comet was the first period comet known ( designated 1P ) and this apparition was the first seen in " half-month " U ( the first half of November ) in 1982 ( giving 1P / 1982 U1 ); it was the third comet past perihelion in 1986 ( 1986 III ); and it was the ninth comet spotted in 1982 ( provisional designation 1982i ).

This apparition was the only one to occur during ben Hananiah's lifetime.

The 141 CE apparition was recorded in Chinese chronicles.

The 684 CE apparition was recorded in Europe in one of the sources used by the compiler of the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicles.

The 1145 apparition was recorded by the monk Eadwine.

Some claim that Genghis Khan was inspired to turn his conquests toward Europe by the 1222 apparition.

Halley's apparition of 1456 was also witnessed in Kashmir and depicted in great detail by Śrīvara, a Sanskrit poet and biographer to the Sultans of Kashmir.

Halley's 1910 apparition is distinct from the Great Daylight Comet of 1910, which surpassed Halley in brilliance and was actually visible in broad daylight for a short period, approximately four months before Halley made its appearance.

" Chaco Native Americans in New Mexico may have recorded the 1066 apparition in their petroglyphs.

In 2008 a video was recorded, showing what appeared to show the apparition of a girl in a blue dress.

The comet was first recorded on 8 March 1772 by Jacques Leibax Montaigne ; during the same apparition it was independently discovered by Charles Messier.

* 1617 – recorded apparition of St Catherine to a ploughman Ján Manca, inhabitant of Dechtice.

This apparition was recorded in Chinese chronicles.

The pantheon of Babylonian gods are terrified by this apparition and appeal to the sun-god Sin: who will slay the dragon and exercise kingship?

Our Lady of the Rosary is the title received by the Marian apparition to Saint Dominic in 1208 in the church of Prouille in which the Virgin Mary gave the Rosary to him.

The connection with Joseph of Arimathea and with vessels associated with the Last Supper and crucifixion of Jesus, dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d ' Arimathie ( late 12th century ) in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Great Britain.

This idea first appears in Robert de Boron's Joseph d ' Arimathie, in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Britain.

At first he was unsure of the meaning of the apparition, but in the following night he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign against his enemies.

According to the earliest account of the apparition, the Nican Mopohua, which was written in the Nahuatl language around 1556, the Virgin Mary told Juan Bernadino, the uncle of Juan Diego, that the image left on the tilma was to be known by the name " the Perfect Virgin, Holy Mary of Guadalupe.

This contains Nican mopohua (" Here it is recounted "), a tract about the Virgin which contains the story of the apparition and the supernatural origin of the image, plus two other sections, Nican motecpana (" Here is an ordered account "), describing fourteen miracles connected with Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Nican tlantica (" Here ends "), an account of the Virgin in New Spain.

Miguel Sánchez, the author of the first Spanish language apparition account, identified Guadalupe as Revelation's Woman of the Apocalypse, and said: this New World has been won and conquered by the hand of the Virgin Mary ... had prepared, disposed, and contrived her exquisite likeness in this her Mexican land, which was conquered for such a glorious purpose, won that there should appear so Mexican an image.

To further strengthen its force of proof it bore the signatures of the important historical figures Antonio Valeriano and Bernardino de Sahagún which seemed to date it unequivocally to the mid 16th century around the time of the apparition.

In the culture and practice of some Christian churches-mainly, but not solely, the Roman Catholic Church-a Shrine to the Virgin Mary ( or Marian shrine ) is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Marian devotion.

* Chaleur Bay is host to an unusual visual phenomenon, the Fireship of Chaleur Bay, an apparition of sorts resembling a ship on fire which has reportedly appeared at several locations in the bay.

It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholics, especially Portuguese-speaking and to some degree Spanish-speaking.

A Marian apparition is an event in which someone believes the Blessed Virgin Mary has supernaturally appeared to one or more people.

" Dolly " may be a corruption of " idol " or may have come directly from the Greek word eidolon ( apparition ); that which represents something else.

Architecturally designed after the tiny country church at Knock, Ireland ( which became famous when the miraculous apparition of Our Lady of Knock appeared there in 1878 ), St. Kieran's was rumored to be one of Bishop Neumann's favored parishes.

Morgan's most famous performance was in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), in which he played the carnival huckster " Professor Marvel ", the gatekeeper of the Emerald City, the driver of the carriage drawn by " The Horse of a Different Color ", the armed guard leading to the Wizard's hall, the apparition of the Wizard as a monstrous disembodied Head, and the Wizard himself.

Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, who was born in Seville, Spain, became closely associated with the Palmar de Troya movement, which had its origins in an alleged apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 30 March 1968 in El Palmar de Troya, a little village near Utrera in the Province of Seville.

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

Most significant was the apparition in Rianxo, Galicia, in 1931, in which she said that Jesus visited her, taught her two prayers and delivered a message to give to the church's hierarchy.

There was also the Fatima story, an officially sanctioned apparition, the cult of which, far from being condemned, was actively encouraged by the Church.

Later, he has an epiphany in his cell: he is reading a letter from Elijah Muhammad when an apparition of Muhammad comes to him and tells him, " I have come to give you something which can never be taken away from you: I bring to you a sense of your own worth ".

The best-known community outside of the municipal seat is Chalma, which is famous for being the sanctuary of the Lord of Chalma, an apparition of a crucified black Christ.