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

CONTENTS.

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	Preface	xv
CHAPTER
I.	The Appearance of Good Angels proved by the Books of the Old Testament	37
II.	The Appearance of Good Angels proved by the Books of the New Testament	38
III.	Under what form have Good Angels appeared?	41
IV.	Opinions of the Jews, Christians, Mahometans, and Oriental Nations, concerning the Apparitions of Good Angels	44
V.	Opinion of the Greeks and Romans on the Apparitions of Good Genii	47
VI.	The Apparition of Bad Angels proved by the Holy Scriptures--Under what Form they have appeared	50
VII.	Of Magic	57
VIII.	Objections to the Reality of Magic	61
IX.	Reply to the Objections	63
X.	Examination of the Affair of Hocque, Magician	67
XI.	Magic of the Egyptians and Chaldeans	70
XII.	Magic among the Greeks and Romans	73
XIII.	Examples which prove the Reality of Magic	75
XIV.	Effects of Magic according to the Poets	81
XV.	Of the Pagan Oracles	83
XVI.	The Certainty of the Event predicted, is not always a proof that the Prediction comes from God	86
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	89
XVIII.	On Sorcerers and Sorceresses, or Witches	93
XIX.	Instances of Sorcerers and Witches being, as they said, transported to the Sabbath	98
XX.	Story of Louis Gaufredi and Magdalen de la Palud, owned by themselves to be a Sorcerer and Sorceress	102
XXI.	Reasons which prove the Possibility of Sorcerers and Witches being transported to the Sabbath	106
XXII.	Continuation of the same Subject	111
XXIII.	Obsession and Possession of the Devil	114
XXIV.	The Truth and Reality of Possession and Obsession by the Devil proved from Scripture	117
XXV.	Examples of Real Possessions caused by the Devil	119
XXVI.	Continuation of the same Subject	123
XXVII.	Objections against the Obsessions and Possessions of the Demon--Reply to the Objections	128
XXVIII.	Continuation of Objections against Possessions, and some Replies to those Objections	132
XXIX.	Of Familiar Spirits	138
XXX.	Some other Examples of Elves	142
XXXI.	Spirits that keep Watch over Treasure	149
XXXII.	Other instances of Hidden Treasures, which were guarded by Good or Bad Spirits	153
XXXIII.	Spectres which appear, and predict things unknown and to come	156
XXXIV.	Other Apparitions of Spectres	159
XXXV.	Examination of the Apparition of a pretended Spectre	163
XXXVI.	Of Spectres which haunt Houses	165
XXXVII.	Other Instances of Spectres which haunt certain Houses	170
XXXVIII.	Prodigious effects of Imagination in those Men or Women who believe they hold Intercourse with the Demon	172
XXXIX.	Return and Apparitions of Souls after the Death of the Body, proved from Scripture	176
XL.	Apparitions of Spirits proved from History	180
XLI.	More Instances of Apparitions	185
XLII.	On the Apparitions of Spirits who imprint their Hands on Clothes or on Wood	190
XLIII.	Opinions of the Jews, Greeks, and Latins, concerning the Dead who are left unburied	195
XLIV.	Examination of what is required or revealed to the Living by the Dead who return to Earth	201
XLV.	Apparitions of Men still alive, to other living Men, absent, and very distant from each other	204
XLVI.	Arguments concerning Apparitions	216
XLVII.	Objections against Apparitions, and Replies to those Objections	221
XLVIII.	Some other Objections and Replies	224
XLIX.	The Secrets of Physics and Chemistry taken for supernatural things	229
L.	Conclusion of the Treatise on Apparitions	232
LI.	Way of explaining Apparitions	235
LII.	The difficulty of explaining the manner in which Apparitions make their appearance, whatever system may be proposed on the subject	237

	Dissertation on the Ghosts who return to Earth bodily, the Excommunicated, the Oupires or Vampires, Vroucolacas, etc.	241
	Preface	243
I.	The Resurrection of a Dead Person is the Work of God only	247
II.	Revival of Persons who were not really Dead	249
III.	Resurrection of a Man who had been buried Three Years, resuscitated by St. Stanislaus	251
IV.	Can a Man really Dead appear in his own Body?	253
V.	Revival or Apparition of a Girl who had been Dead some Months	256
VI.	A Woman taken Alive from her Tomb	259
VII.	Revenans, or Vampires of Moravia	260
VIII.	Dead Persons in Hungary who suck the Blood of the Living	262
IX.	Narrative of a Vampire from the Jewish Letters, Letter 137	263
X.	Other Instances of Revenans.--Continuation of the "Gleaner"	264
XI.	Argument of the Author of the Jewish Letters, concerning Revenans	266
XII.	Continuation of the argument of the Dutch Gleaner	270
XIII.	Narrative from the "Mercure Gallant" of 1693 and 1694 on Revenans	272
XIV.	Conjectures of the "Glaneur de Hollandais"	273
XV.	Another Letter on Ghosts	276
XVI.	Pretended Vestiges of Vampirism in Antiquity	278
XVII.	Ghosts in Northern Countries	282
XVIII.	Ghosts in England	283
XIX.	Ghosts in Peru	284
XX.	Ghosts in Lapland	285
XXI.	Return of a Man who had been Dead some Months	285
XXII.	Excommunicated Persons who went out of Churches	289
XXIII.	Some Instances of the Excommunicated being rejected or cast out of Consecrated Ground	291
XXIV.	Instance of an Excommunicated Martyr being cast out of the Ground	292
XXV.	A Man cast out of the Church for having refused to pay Tithes	293
XXVI.	Instances of Persons who have given Signs of Life after their Death, and have withdrawn themselves respectfully to make room for more worthy Persons	294
XXVII.	People who perform Pilgrimage after Death	296
XXVIII.	Reasoning upon the Excommunicated who go out of Churches	297
XXIX.	Do the Excommunicated rot in the Earth?	300
XXX.	Instances to show that the Excommunicated do not rot, and that they appear to the Living	301
XXXI.	Instances of these Returns to Earth of the Excommunicated	302
XXXII.	A Vroucolacan exhumed in the presence of M. de Tournefort	304
XXXIII.	Has the Demon power to kill, and then to restore to Life?	308
XXXIV.	Examination of the Opinion that the Demon can restore Animation to a Dead Body	310
XXXV.	Instances of Phantoms which have appeared to the Living and given many Signs of Life	313
XXXVI.	Devoting People to Death, practised by the Heathens	314
XXXVII.	Instances of dooming to Death among Christians	317
XXXVIII.	Instances of Persons who have promised to give each other News of themselves from the other World	321
XXXIX.	Extracts from the Political Works of the AbbÉ de St. Pierre	325
XL.	Divers Systems to explain Ghosts	331
XLI.	Divers Instances of Persons being Buried Alive	333
XLII.	Instances of Drowned Persons who have come back to Life and Health	335
XLIII.	Instances of Women thought Dead who came to Life again	337
XLIV.	Can these Instances be applied to the Hungarian Revenans?	339
XLV.	Dead People who chew in their Graves and devour their own Flesh	340
XLVI.	Singular Example of a Hungarian Revenant	341
XLVII.	Argument on this matter	343
XLVIII.	Are the Vampires or Revenans really Dead?	344
XLIX.	Instance of a Man named Curma being sent back to this World	351
L.	Instances of Persons who fall into Ecstatic Trances when they will, and remain senseless	354
LI.	Application of such Instances to Vampires	356
LII.	Examination of the Opinion that the Demon fascinates the Eyes of those to whom Vampires appear	360
LIII.	Instances of Resuscitated Persons who relate what they saw in the other World	361
LIV.	The Traditions of the Pagans on the other Life, are derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians	364
LV.	Instances of Christians being Resuscitated and sent back to this World.--Vision of Vetinus, a Monk of Augia	366
LVI.	Vision of Bertholdas, related by Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims	368
LVII.	Vision of St. Fursius	369
LVIII.	Vision of a Protestant of York, and others	371
LIX.	Conclusion of this Dissertation	374
LX.	Moral Impossibility that Ghosts can come out of their Tombs	376
LXI.	What is related of the Bodies of the Excommunicated who walk out of Churches, is subject to very great Difficulties (in Belief and Explanation)	378
LXII.	Remarks on the Dissertation, concerning the Spirit which came to St. Maur des FossÉs	380
LXIII.	Dissertation of an Anonymous Writer on what should be thought of the Appearance of Spirits, on Occasion of the Adventure at St. Maur, in 1706	387
	Letter of the Marquis Maffei on Magic	407
	Letter of the Reverend Father Dom Calmet, to M. Debure	440

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