The Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.

Name: The Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.
Author: Augustin Calmet

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Phantom World: The History and Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, &c. &c. From the French of Augustine Calmet. With A Preface and Notes by the Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., Librarian an
Introduction
Preface
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Chapter I. The Appearance of Good Angels Proved by the Books of the Old Testament
Chapter II. The Appearance of Good Angels Proved by the Books of the New Testament
Chapter III. Under What Form Have Good Angels Appeared?
Chapter IV. Opinions of the Jews, Christians, Mahometans, and Oriental Nations Concerning the Apparitions of Good Angels
Chapter V. Opinion of the Greeks and Romans on the Apparitions of Good Genii
Chapter VI. The Apparition of Bad Angels Proved by the Holy Scriptures—Under What Form They Have Appeared
Chapter VII. Of Magic
Chapter VIII. Objections to the Reality of Magic
Chapter IX. Reply to the Objections
Chapter X. Examination of the Affair of Hocque, Magician
Chapter XI. Magic of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
Chapter XII. Magic Among the Greeks and Romans
Chapter XIII. Examples Which Prove the Reality of Magic
Chapter XIV. Effects of Magic According to the Poets
Chapter XV. Of the Pagan Oracles
Chapter XVI. The Certainty of the Event Predicted Is Not Always a Proof That the Prediction Comes from God
Chapter XVII. Reasons Which Lead Us to Believe That the Greater Part of the Ancient Oracles Were Only Impositions of the Priests and Priestesses, Who Feigned That They Were Inspired by God
Chapter XVIII. On Sorcerers and Sorceresses, or Witches
Chapter XIX. Instances of Sorcerers and Witches Being, as They Said, Transported to the Sabbath
Chapter XX. Story of Louis Gaufredi and Magdalen De La Palud, Owned by Themselves to Be a Sorcerer and Sorceress
Chapter XXI. Reasons Which Prove the Possibility of Sorcerers and Witches Being Transported to the Sabbath
Chapter XXII. Continuation of the Same Subject
Chapter XXIII. Obsession and Possession of the Devil
Chapter XXIV. The Truth and Reality of Possession and Obsession by the Devil Proved from Scripture
Chapter XXV. Examples of Real Possessions Caused by the Devil
Chapter XXVI. Continuation of the Same Subject
Chapter XXVII. Objections Against the Obsessions and Possessions of the Demon—Reply to the Objections
Chapter XXVIII. Continuation of Objections Against Possessions, and Some Replies to Those Objections
Chapter XXIX. Of Familiar Spirits
Chapter XXX. Some Other Examples of Elves
Chapter XXXI. Spirits That Keep Watch Over Treasure
Chapter XXXII. Other Instances of Hidden Treasures Which Were Guarded by Good or Bad Spirits
Chapter XXXIII. Spectres Which Appear, and Predict Things Unknown and to Come
Chapter XXXIV. Other Apparitions of Spectres
Chapter XXXV. Examination of the Apparition of a Pretended Spectre
Chapter XXXVI. Of Spectres Which Haunt Houses
Chapter XXXVII. Other Instances of Spectres Which Haunt Certain Houses
Chapter XXXVIII. Prodigious Effects of Imagination in Those Men or Women Who Believe They Hold Intercourse with the Demon
Chapter XXXIX. Return and Apparitions of Souls After the Death of the Body, Proved from Scripture
Chapter XL. Apparitions of Spirits Proved from History
Chapter XLI. More Instances of Apparitions
Chapter XLII. On the Apparitions of Spirits Who Imprint Their Hands on Clothes or on Wood
Chapter XLIII. Opinions of the Jews, Greeks, and Latins Concerning the Dead Who Are Left Unburied
Chapter XLIV. Examination of What Is Required or Revealed to the Living by the Dead Who Return to Earth
Chapter XLV. Apparitions of Men Still Alive, to Other Living Men, Absent, and Very Distant from Each Other
Chapter XLVI. Arguments Concerning Apparitions
Chapter XLVII. Objections Against Apparitions, and Replies to Those Objections
Chapter XLVIII. Some Other Objections and Replies
Chapter XLIX. The Secrets of Physics and Chemistry Taken for Supernatural Things
Chapter L. Conclusion of the Treatise on Apparitions
Chapter LI. Way of Explaining Apparitions
Chapter LII. The Difficulty of Explaining the Manner in Which Apparitions Make Their Appearance, Whatever System May Be Proposed on the Subject
Preface
Chapter I. The Resurrection of a Dead Person Is the Work of God Only
Chapter II. On the Revival of Persons Who Were Not Really Dead
Chapter III. Revival of a Man Who Had Been Interred for Three Years, and Was Resuscitated by St. Stanislaus
Chapter IV. Can a Man Who Is Really Dead Appear in His Own Body?
Chapter V. Revival or Apparition of a Girl Who Had Been Dead Some Months
Chapter VI. A Woman Taken Alive from Her Grave
Chapter VII. Let Us Now Examine the Fact of the Revenans or Vampires of Moravia
Chapter VIII. Dead Persons in Hungary Who Suck the Blood of the Living
Chapter IX. Account of a Vampire, Taken from the Jewish Letters (Lettres Juives); Letter 137
Chapter X. Other Instances of Ghosts—Continuation of the Gleaner
Chapter XI. Arguments of the Author of the "Lettres Juives," on the Subject of These Pretended Ghosts
Chapter XII. Continuation of the Argument of the "Dutch Gleaners," or "Glaneur Hollandais."
Chapter XIII. Narration Extracted from the "Mercure Galent" of 1693 and 1694, Concerning Ghosts
Chapter XIV. Conjectures of the "Glaneur De Hollande," Dutch Gleaner, in 1733.—No. IX
Chapter XV. Another Letter on Ghosts
Chapter XVI. Pretended Vestiges of Vampirism in Antiquity
Chapter XVII. Of Ghosts in the Northern Countries
Chapter XVIII. Ghosts in England
Chapter XIX. Ghosts in Peru
Chapter XX. Ghosts in Lapland
Chapter XXI. Reappearance of a Man Who Had Been Dead for Some Months
Chapter XXII. Excommunicated Persons Who Go Out of the Churches
Chapter XXIII. Some Other Instances of Excommunicated Persons Being Cast Out of Consecrated Ground
Chapter XXIV. An Instance of an Excommunicated Martyr Being Cast Out of the Earth
Chapter XXV. A Man Rejected from the Church for Having Refused to Pay Tithes
Chapter XXVI. Instances of Persons Who Have Shown Signs of Life After Their Death, and Who Have Drawn Back from Respect, to Make Room or Give Place to Some Who Were More Worthy Than Themselves
Chapter XXVII. Of Persons Who Perform a Pilgrimage After Their Death
Chapter XXVIII. Argument Concerning the Excommunicated Who Quit Churches
Chapter XXIX. Do the Excommunicated Rot in the Ground?
Chapter XXX. Instances to Demonstrate That the Excommunicated Do Not Decay, and That They Appear to the Living
Chapter XXXI. Instance of the Reappearances of the Excommunicated
Chapter XXXII. Vroucolaca Exhumed in Presence of Monsieur De Tournefort
Chapter XXXIII. Has the Demon Power to Cause Any One to Die and Then to Restore the Dead to Life?
Chapter XXXIV. Examination of the Opinion Which Concludes That the Demon Can Restore Motion to a Dead Body
Chapter XXXV. Instances of Phantoms Which Have Appeared to Be Alive, and Have Give Many Signs of Life
Chapter XXXVI. Devoting to Death, a Practice Among the Pagans
Chapter XXXVII. Instances of Devoting or Dooming Amongst Christians
Chapter XXXVIII. Instances of Persons Who Have Promised to Give Each Other News of the Other World After Their Death
Chapter XXXIX. Extract from the Political Works of M. L'Abbe De St. Pierre
Chapter XL. Divers Systems for Explaining the Return of Spirits
Chapter XLI. Various Instances of Persons Being Buried Alive
Chapter XLII. Instances of Drowned Persons Recovering Their Health
Chapter XLIII. Instances of Women Who Have Been Believed to Be Dead, and Who Have Come to Life Again
Chapter XLIV. Can These Instances Be Applied to the Hungarian Ghosts?
Chapter XLV. Dead Persons Who Chew in Their Graves Like Hogs, and Devour Their Own Flesh
Chapter XLVI. Singular Instance of a Hungarian Ghost
Chapter XLVII. Reasonings on This Matter
Chapter XLVIII. Are the Vampires or Revenans Really Dead?
Chapter XLIX. Instance of a Man Named Curma Who Was Sent Back Into the World
Chapter L. Instances of Persons Who Could Fall Into a Trance When They Pleased, and Remained Perfectly Senseless
Chapter LI. Application of the Preceding Instances to Vampires
Chapter LII. Examination of the Opinion That the Demon Fascinates the Eyes of Those to Whom Vampires Appear
Chapter LIII. Instances of Persons Resuscitated, Who Relate What They Have Seen in the Other World
Chapter LIV. The Traditions of the Pagans Concerning the Future Life Are Derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians
Chapter LV. Instances of Christians Who Have Been Resuscitated and Sent Back to the World—Vision of Vetinus, a Monk of Augia
Chapter LVI. The Vision of Bertholdus, as Related by Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims
Chapter LVII. The Vision of Saint Fursius
Chapter LVIII. Vision of a Protestant of York, and Others
Chapter LIX. Conclusions of This Dissertation
Chapter LX. The Moral Impossibility of the Revenans Coming Out of Their Graves
Chapter LXI. What Is Related Concerning the Bodies of the Excommunicated Leaving the Church, Is Subject to Very Great Difficulties
Chapter LXII. Remarks on the Dissertation Concerning the Spirit Which Reappeared at St. Maur Des Fosses
Chapter LXIII. Dissertation by an Anonymous Writer
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