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Chapter 1 THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD ANGELS PROVED BY THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Chapter 2 THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD ANGELS PROVED BY THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Chapter 3 UNDER WHAT FORM HAVE GOOD ANGELS APPEARED
Chapter 4 OPINIONS OF THE JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MAHOMETANS, AND ORIENTAL NATIONS CONCERNING THE APPARITIONS OF GOOD ANGELS.
Chapter 5 OPINION OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS ON THE APPARITIONS OF GOOD GENII.
Chapter 6 THE APPARITION OF BAD ANGELS PROVED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTURES-UNDER WHAT FORM THEY HAVE APPEARED.
Chapter 7 OF MAGIC.
Chapter 8 OBJECTIONS TO THE REALITY OF MAGIC.
Chapter 9 REPLY TO THE OBJECTIONS.
Chapter 10 EXAMINATION OF THE AFFAIR OF HOCQUE, MAGICIAN.
Chapter 11 MAGIC OF THE EGYPTIANS AND CHALDEANS.
Chapter 12 MAGIC AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS.
Chapter 13 EXAMPLES WHICH PROVE THE REALITY OF MAGIC.
Chapter 14 EFFECTS OF MAGIC ACCORDING TO THE POETS.
Chapter 15 OF THE PAGAN ORACLES.
Chapter 16 THE CERTAINTY OF THE EVENT PREDICTED IS NOT ALWAYS A PROOF THAT THE PREDICTION COMES FROM GOD.
Chapter 17 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 18 ON SORCERERS AND SORCERESSES, OR WITCHES.
Chapter 19 INSTANCES OF SORCERERS AND WITCHES BEING, AS THEY SAID, TRANSPORTED TO THE SABBATH.
Chapter 20 STORY OF LOUIS GAUFREDI AND MAGDALEN DE LA PALUD, OWNED BY THEMSELVES TO BE A SORCERER AND SORCERESS.
Chapter 21 REASONS WHICH PROVE THE POSSIBILITY OF SORCERERS AND WITCHES BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE SABBATH.
Chapter 22 CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT.
Chapter 23 OBSESSION AND POSSESSION OF THE DEVIL.
Chapter 24 THE TRUTH AND REALITY OF POSSESSION AND OBSESSION BY THE DEVIL PROVED FROM SCRIPTURE.
Chapter 25 EXAMPLES OF REAL POSSESSIONS CAUSED BY THE DEVIL.
Chapter 26 CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT. No.26
Chapter 27 OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE OBSESSIONS AND POSSESSIONS OF THE DEMON-REPLY TO THE OBJECTIONS.
Chapter 28 CONTINUATION OF OBJECTIONS AGAINST POSSESSIONS, AND SOME REPLIES TO THOSE OBJECTIONS.
Chapter 29 OF FAMILIAR SPIRITS.
Chapter 30 SOME OTHER EXAMPLES OF ELVES.
Chapter 31 SPIRITS THAT KEEP WATCH OVER TREASURE.
Chapter 32 OTHER INSTANCES OF HIDDEN TREASURES WHICH WERE GUARDED BY GOOD OR BAD SPIRITS.
Chapter 33 SPECTRES WHICH APPEAR, AND PREDICT THINGS UNKNOWN AND TO COME.
Chapter 34 OTHER APPARITIONS OF SPECTRES.
Chapter 35 EXAMINATION OF THE APPARITION OF A PRETENDED SPECTRE.
Chapter 36 OF SPECTRES WHICH HAUNT HOUSES.
Chapter 37 OTHER INSTANCES OF SPECTRES WHICH HAUNT CERTAIN HOUSES.
Chapter 38 PRODIGIOUS EFFECTS OF IMAGINATION IN THOSE MEN OR WOMEN WHO BELIEVE THEY HOLD INTERCOURSE WITH THE DEMON.
Chapter 39 RETURN AND APPARITIONS OF SOULS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY, PROVED FROM SCRIPTURE.
Chapter 40 APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS PROVED FROM HISTORY.
Chapter 41 MORE INSTANCES OF APPARITIONS.
Chapter 42 ON THE APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS WHO IMPRINT THEIR HANDS ON CLOTHES OR ON WOOD.
Chapter 43 OPINIONS OF THE JEWS, GREEKS, AND LATINS CONCERNING THE DEAD WHO ARE LEFT UNBURIED.
Chapter 44 EXAMINATION OF WHAT IS REQUIRED OR REVEALED TO THE LIVING BY THE DEAD WHO RETURN TO EARTH.
Chapter 45 APPARITIONS OF MEN STILL ALIVE, TO OTHER LIVING MEN, ABSENT, AND VERY DISTANT FROM EACH OTHER.
Chapter 46 ARGUMENTS CONCERNING APPARITIONS.
Chapter 47 OBJECTIONS AGAINST APPARITIONS, AND REPLIES TO THOSE OBJECTIONS.
Chapter 48 SOME OTHER OBJECTIONS AND REPLIES.
Chapter 49 THE SECRETS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY TAKEN FOR SUPERNATURAL THINGS.
Chapter 50 CONCLUSION OF THE TREATISE ON APPARITIONS.
Chapter 51 WAY OF EXPLAINING APPARITIONS.
Chapter 52 THE RESURRECTION OF A DEAD PERSON IS THE WORK OF GOD ONLY.
Chapter 53 ON THE REVIVAL OF PERSONS WHO WERE NOT REALLY DEAD.
Chapter 54 REVIVAL OF A MAN WHO HAD BEEN INTERRED FOR THREE YEARS, AND WAS RESUSCITATED BY ST. STANISLAUS.
Chapter 55 CAN A MAN WHO IS REALLY DEAD APPEAR IN HIS OWN BODY
Chapter 56 REVIVAL OR APPARITION OF A GIRL WHO HAD BEEN DEAD SOME MONTHS.
Chapter 57 A WOMAN TAKEN ALIVE FROM HER GRAVE.
Chapter 58 LET US NOW EXAMINE THE FACT OF THE REVENANS OR VAMPIRES OF MORAVIA.
Chapter 59 DEAD PERSONS IN HUNGARY WHO SUCK THE BLOOD OF THE LIVING.
Chapter 60 ACCOUNT OF A VAMPIRE, TAKEN FROM THE JEWISH LETTERS (LETTRES JUIVES); LETTER 137.
Chapter 61 OTHER INSTANCES OF GHOSTS-CONTINUATION OF THE GLEANER.
Chapter 62 ARGUMENTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THE LETTRES JUIVES, ON THE SUBJECT OF THESE PRETENDED GHOSTS.
Chapter 63 CONTINUATION OF THE ARGUMENT OF THE DUTCH GLEANERS, OR GLANEUR HOLLANDAIS.
Chapter 64 NARRATION EXTRACTED FROM THE MERCURE GALENT OF 1693 AND 1694, CONCERNING GHOSTS.
Chapter 65 CONJECTURES OF THE GLANEUR DE HOLLANDE, DUTCH GLEANER, IN 1733.-NO. IX.
Chapter 66 ANOTHER LETTER ON GHOSTS.
Chapter 67 PRETENDED VESTIGES OF VAMPIRISM IN ANTIQUITY.
Chapter 68 OF GHOSTS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES.
Chapter 69 GHOSTS IN ENGLAND.
Chapter 70 GHOSTS IN PERU.
Chapter 71 GHOSTS IN LAPLAND.
Chapter 72 REAPPEARANCE OF A MAN WHO HAD BEEN DEAD FOR SOME MONTHS.
Chapter 73 EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS WHO GO OUT OF THE CHURCHES.
Chapter 74 SOME OTHER INSTANCES OF EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS BEING CAST OUT OF CONSECRATED GROUND.
Chapter 75 AN INSTANCE OF AN EXCOMMUNICATED MARTYR BEING CAST OUT OF THE EARTH.
Chapter 76 A MAN REJECTED FROM THE CHURCH FOR HAVING REFUSED TO PAY TITHES.
Chapter 77 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 78 OF PERSONS WHO PERFORM A PILGRIMAGE AFTER THEIR DEATH.
Chapter 79 ARGUMENT CONCERNING THE EXCOMMUNICATED WHO QUIT CHURCHES.
Chapter 80 DO THE EXCOMMUNICATED ROT IN THE GROUND
Chapter 81 INSTANCES TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE EXCOMMUNICATED DO NOT DECAY, AND THAT THEY APPEAR TO THE LIVING.
Chapter 82 INSTANCE OF THE REAPPEARANCES OF THE EXCOMMUNICATED.
Chapter 83 VROUCOLACA EXHUMED IN PRESENCE OF MONSIEUR DE TOURNEFORT.
Chapter 84 HAS THE DEMON POWER TO CAUSE ANY ONE TO DIE AND THEN TO RESTORE THE DEAD TO LIFE
Chapter 85 EXAMINATION OF THE OPINION WHICH CONCLUDES THAT THE DEMON CAN RESTORE MOTION TO A DEAD BODY.
Chapter 86 INSTANCES OF PHANTOMS WHICH HAVE APPEARED TO BE ALIVE, AND HAVE GIVE MANY SIGNS OF LIFE.
Chapter 87 DEVOTING TO DEATH, A PRACTICE AMONG THE PAGANS.
Chapter 88 INSTANCES OF DEVOTING OR DOOMING AMONGST CHRISTIANS.
Chapter 89 INSTANCES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE PROMISED TO GIVE EACH OTHER NEWS OF THE OTHER WORLD AFTER THEIR DEATH.
Chapter 90 EXTRACT FROM THE POLITICAL WORKS OF M. L'ABBE DE ST. PIERRE.[556]
Chapter 91 DIVERS SYSTEMS FOR EXPLAINING THE RETURN OF SPIRITS.
Chapter 92 VARIOUS INSTANCES OF PERSONS BEING BURIED ALIVE.
Chapter 93 INSTANCES OF DROWNED PERSONS RECOVERING THEIR HEALTH.
Chapter 94 INSTANCES OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN BELIEVED TO BE DEAD, AND WHO HAVE COME TO LIFE AGAIN.
Chapter 95 CAN THESE INSTANCES BE APPLIED TO THE HUNGARIAN GHOSTS
Chapter 96 DEAD PERSONS WHO CHEW IN THEIR GRAVES LIKE HOGS, AND DEVOUR THEIR OWN FLESH.
Chapter 97 SINGULAR INSTANCE OF A HUNGARIAN GHOST.
Chapter 98 REASONINGS ON THIS MATTER.
Chapter 99 ARE THE VAMPIRES OR REVENANS REALLY DEAD
Chapter 100 INSTANCE OF A MAN NAMED CURMA WHO WAS SENT BACK INTO THE WORLD.
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Chapter 46 ARGUMENTS CONCERNING APPARITIONS.

After having spoken at some length upon apparitions, and after having established the truth of them, as far as it has been possible for us to do so, from the authority of the Scripture, from examples, and by arguments, we must now exercise our judgment on the causes, means, and reasons for these apparitions, and reply to the objections which may be

             
            

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