The Phantom World
Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, Etc

Table of Contents

Preface
1. That the resurrection of a dead person is the work of God only
2. Revival of persons who were not really dead
3. Resurrection of a man who had been buried three years, resuscitated by St Stanislaus
4. Can a man really dead appear in his own body?
5. Revival or apparition of a girl who had been dead some months
6. A woman taken alive from her tomb
7. Revenans, or vampires of Moravia
8. Dead men of Hungary who suck the blood of the living
9. Narrative of a vampire from the Jewish Letters, Letter 137
10. Other instances of revenans. Continuation of the 'Gleaner'
11. Argument of the author of the Jewish Letters, concerning revenans
12. Continuation of the argument of the Dutch Gleaner
13. Narrative from the 'Mercure Gallant' of 1693 and 1694 on revenans
14. Conjectures of the Dutch Gleaner
15. Another letter on revenans
16. Pretended vestiges of vampirism in antiquity
17. Ghosts in northern countries
18. Ghosts in England
19. Ghosts in Peru
20. Ghosts in Lapland
21. Return of a man who had been dead some months
22. Excommunicated persons who went out of churches
23. Some instances of the excommunicated being rejected or cast out of consecrated ground
24. Instance of an excommunicated martyr being cast out of the ground
25. A man cast out of the church for having refused to pay tithes
26. Instances of persons who have given signs of life after their death, and have withdrawn themselves respectfully to make room for more worthy persons
27. People who perform pilgrimage after death
28. Reasoning upon the excommunicated who go out of churches
29. Do the excommunicated decay in the earth?
30. Instances to show that the excommunicated do not decay, and that they appear to the living
31. Instances of these returns to earth of the excommunicated
32. A Vroucolaca exhumed in the presence of M. de Tournefort
33. Has the demon power to kill, and then to restore to life?
34. Examination of the opinion that the demon can restore animation to a dead body
35. Instances of phantoms which have appeared to the living, and given many signs of life
36. Devoting people to death, practised by the heathens
37. Instances of dooming to death among Christians
38. Instances of persons who have promised to give each other news of themselves from the other world
39. Extracts from the political works of the Abbé de St Pierre
40. Divers systems to explain ghosts
41. Divers instances of persons being buried alive
42. Instances of drowned persons who have come back to life and health
43. Instances of women thought dead who came to life again
44. Can these instances be applied to the Hungarian revenans?
45. Dead people who masticate in their graves and devour their own flesh
46. Singular example of a Hungarian revenant
47. Argument on this matter
48. Are the vampires or revenans really dead?
49. Instance of a man named Curma being sent back to this world
50. Instances of persons who fall into ecstatic trances when they will, and remain senseless
51. Application of such instances to vampires
52. Examination of the opinion that the demon fascinates the eyes of those to whom vampires appear
53. Instances of resuscitated persons who relate what they saw in the other world
54. The traditions of the pagans on the other life, are derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians
55. Instances of Christians being resuscitated and sent back to this world. Vision of Vetinus, a monk of Augia
56. Vision of Bertholdus, related by Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims
57. Vision of St Fursius
58. Vision of a Protestant of York, and others
59. Conclusion of this dissertation
60. Moral impossibility that ghosts can come out of their tombs
61. That what is related of the bodies of the excommunicated who walk out of churches, is subject to very great difficulties
62. Remarks on the dissertation, concerning the spirit whic

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