er 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

CHAPTER

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