351

L. Instances of Persons who fall into Ecstatic Trances when
they will, and remain senseless 354

LI. Application of such Instances to Vampires 356

LII. Examination of the Opinion that the Demon fascinates the
Eyes of those to whom Vampires appear 360

LIII. Instances of Resuscitated Persons who relate what they
saw in the other World 361

LIV. The Traditions of the Pagans on the other Life, are
derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians 364

LV. Instances of Christians being Resuscitated and sent back
to this World.--Vision of Vetinus, a Monk of Augia 366

LVI. Vision of Bertholdas, related by Hincmar, Archbishop of
Rheims 368

LVII. Vision of St. Fursius 369

LVIII. Vision of a Protestant of York, and others 371

LIX. Conclusion of this Dissertation 374

LX. Moral Impossibility that Ghosts can come out of their Tombs 376

LXI. What is related of the Bodies of the Excommunicated who
walk out of Churches, is subject to very great
Difficulties (in Belief and Explanation) 378

LXII. Remarks on the Dissertation, concerning the Spirit which
came to St. Maur des Fosses 380

LXIII. Dissertation of an Anonymous Writer on what should be
thought of the Appearance of Spirits, on Occasion of
the Adventure at St. Maur, in 1706 387

Letter of the Marquis Maffei on Magic 407

Letter of the Reverend Father Dom Calmet, to M. Debure 440

PREFACE.

The great number of authors who have written upon the apparitions of
angels, demons, and disembodied souls is not unknown to me; and I do
not presume sufficiently on my own capacity to believe that I shall
succeed better in it than they have done, and that I shall enhance
their knowledge and their discoveries. I am perfectly sensible that I
expose myself to criticism, and perhaps to the mockery of many
readers, who regard this matter as done with, and decried in the minds
of philosophers, learned men, and many theologians. I must not reckon
either on the approbation of the people, whose want of discernment
prevents their being competent judges