PREFACE

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139176422.001

PREFACE

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013

Augustin Calmet

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Henry Christmas

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PREFACE
CHAPTER I That the Resurrection of a Dead Person is the Work of God only
CHAPTER II Revival of Persons who were not really Dead
CHAPTER III Resurrection of a Man who had been buried Three Years, resuscitated by St. Stanislaus
CHAPTER IV Can a Man 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 Tomb
CHAPTER VII Revenans, or Vampires of Moravia
CHAPTER VIII Dead Men of Hungary who suck the Blood of the Living
CHAPTER IX Narrative of a Vampire from the Jewish Letters, Letter 137
CHAPTER X Other Instances of Revenans. — Continuation of the “Gleaner”
CHAPTER XI Argument of the Author of the Jewish Letters, concerning Revenans
CHAPTER XII Continuation of the Argument of the Dutch Gleaner
CHAPTER XIII Narrative from the “Mercure Gallant” of 1693 and 1694 on Revenans
CHAPTER XIV Conjectures of the Dutch Gleaner
CHAPTER XV Another Letter on Revenans
CHAPTER XVI Pretended Vestiges of Vampirism in Antiquity
CHAPTER XVII Ghosts in Northern Countries
CHAPTER XVIII Ghosts in England
CHAPTER XIX Ghosts in Peru
CHAPTER XX Ghosts in Lapland
CHAPTER XXI Return of a Man who had been Dead some Months
CHAPTER XXII Excommunicated Persons who went out of Churches
CHAPTER XXIII Some Instances of the Excommunicated being rejected or cast out of Consecrated Ground
CHAPTER XXIV Instance of an Excommunicated Martyr being cast out of the Ground
CHAPTER XXV A Man cast out of the Church for having refused to pay Tithes
CHAPTER XXVI Instances of Persons who have given Signs of Life after their Death, and have withdrawn themselves respectfully to make room for more worthy Persons
CHAPTER XXVII People who perform Pilgrimage after Death
CHAPTER XXVIII Reasoning upon the Excommunicated who go out of Churches
CHAPTER XXIX Do the Excommunicated decay in the Earth?
CHAPTER XXX Instances to show that the Excommunicated do not decay, and that they appear to the Living
CHAPTER XXXI Instances of these Returns to Earth of the Excommunicated
CHAPTER XXXII A Vroucolaca exhumed in the presence of M. de Tournefort
CHAPTER XXXIII Has the Demon power to kill, and then to restore to Life?
CHAPTER XXXIV Examination of the Opinion that the Demon can restore Animation to a Dead Body
CHAPTER XXXV Instances of Phantoms which have appeared to the Living, and given many Signs of Life
CHAPTER XXXVI Devoting People to Death, practised by the Heathens
CHAPTER XXXVII Instances of dooming to Death among Christians
CHAPTER XXXVIII Instances of Persons who have promised to give each other News of themselves from the other World
CHAPTER XXXIX Extracts from the Political Works of the Abbé de St. Pierre
CHAPTER XL Divers Systems to explain Ghosts
CHAPTER XLI Divers Instances of Persons being Buried Alive
CHAPTER XLII Instances of Drowned Persons who have come back to Life and Health
CHAPTER XLIII Instances of Women thought Dead who came to Life again
CHAPTER XLIV Can these Instances be applied to the Hungarian Revenans?
CHAPTER XLV Dead People who masticate in their Graves and devour their own Flesh
CHAPTER XLVI Singular Example of a Hungarian Revenant
CHAPTER XLVII Argument on this matter
CHAPTER XLVIII Are the Vampires or Revenans really Dead?
CHAPTER XLIX Instance of a Man named Curma being sent back to this World
CHAPTER L Instances of Persons who fall into Ecstatic Trances when they will, and remain senseless
CHAPTER LI Application of such 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 Resuscitated Persons who relate what they saw in the other World
CHAPTER LIV The Traditions of the Pagans on the other Life, are derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians
CHAPTER LV Instances of Christians being Resuscitated and sent back to this World.—Vision of Vetinus, a Monk of Augia
CHAPTER LVI Vision of Bertholdus, related by Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims
CHAPTER LVII Vision of St. Fursius
CHAPTER LVIII Vision of a Protestant of York, and others
CHAPTER LIX Conclusion of this Dissertation
CHAPTER LX Moral Impossibility that Ghosts can come out of their Tombs
CHAPTER LXI That what is related of the Bodies of the Excommunicated who walk out of Churches, is subject to very great Difficulties
CHAPTER LXII Remarks on the Dissertation, concerning the Spirit which appeared at St. Maur des Fossés
CHAPTER LXIII Dissertation of an Anonymous Writer on the Appearance of Spirits at St. Maur, in 1706
Letter of the Marquis Maffei on Magic
Letter of the Reverend Father Dom Calmet, to M. Debure

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Information: The Phantom World
Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, Etc
, pp. 1 - 4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176422.001 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2012

First published in: 1850

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