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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