{"product_id":"the-phantom-world-or-the-philosophy-of-spirits-apparitions-etc-paperback-9781108044257","title":"The Phantom World; Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, Etc (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108044257","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Phantom World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOr, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, Etc\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalmet's 1746 work, translated into English in 1850, investigates a wide range of supernatural events across Europe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAugustin Calmet (Author), Henry Christmas (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108044257, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 March 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Benedictine monk and biblical scholar Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672–1757) published this work in 1746; it was translated into English in 1850 by Henry Christmas (1811–68). It examines a wide selection of supernatural tales and beliefs from across Europe. Taking the stance of a scientific enquirer, Calmet sought to understand the truth behind stories of good and bad angels, vampires, witchcraft, possession by demons, and the dead who come back to life. He compiled accounts of the supernatural from official reports, newspapers, eyewitness accounts and travel writing, and this two-volume anthology of his collected data analyses the material, noting problems and inconsistencies. Volume 1 investigates the appearance of good and bad angels, magic among the Greeks and Romans, sorcerers and witches, and possession by demons. Covering a vast repertory of legends, the work paints a vivid picture of the beliefs entertained in an ostensibly Christian era.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The appearance of good angels proved by the books of the Old Testament\u003cbr\u003e 2. The appearance of good angels proved by the books of the New Testament\u003cbr\u003e 3. Under what form have good angels appeared?\u003cbr\u003e 4. Opinions of the Jews, Christians, Mahometans, and oriental nations, concerning the apparitions of good angels\u003cbr\u003e 5. Opinion of the Greeks and Romans on the apparitions of good genii\u003cbr\u003e 6. The apparition of bad angels proved by the Holy Scriptures. Under what form they have appeared\u003cbr\u003e 7. Of magic\u003cbr\u003e 8. Objections to the reality of magic\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reply to the objections\u003cbr\u003e 10. Examination of the affair of Hocque, magician\u003cbr\u003e 11. Magic of the Egyptians and Chaldeans\u003cbr\u003e 12. Magic among the Greeks and Romans\u003cbr\u003e 13. Examples which prove the reality of magic\u003cbr\u003e 14. Effects of magic according to the poets\u003cbr\u003e 15. Of the pagan oracles\u003cbr\u003e 16. The certainty of the event predicted, not always a proof that the prediction comes from God\u003cbr\u003e 17. 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\u003cbr\u003e 18. Of sorcerers and sorceresses, or witches\u003cbr\u003e 19. Instances of sorcerers and witches being, as they said, transported to the Sabbath\u003cbr\u003e 20. Story of Louis Gaufredi and Magdalen de la Palud, owned by themselves to be a sorcerer and sorceress\u003cbr\u003e 21. Reasons which prove the possibility of sorcerers and witches being transported to the Sabbath\u003cbr\u003e 22. Continuation of the same subject\u003cbr\u003e 23. Obsession and possession of the Devil\u003cbr\u003e 24. The truth and reality of possession and obsession by the Devil proved from Scripture\u003cbr\u003e 25. Examples of real possessions caused by the Devil\u003cbr\u003e 26. Continuation of the same subject\u003cbr\u003e 27. Objections against the obsessions and possessions of the demon. Reply to the objections\u003cbr\u003e 28. Continuation of objections against possessions, and some replies to those objections\u003cbr\u003e 29. Of familiar spirits\u003cbr\u003e 30. Some other examples of elves\u003cbr\u003e 31. Spirits that keep watch over treasure\u003cbr\u003e 32. Other instances of hidden treasures, which were guarded by good or bad spirits\u003cbr\u003e 33. Spectres which appear, and predict things unknown and to come\u003cbr\u003e 34. Other apparitions of spectres\u003cbr\u003e 35. Examination of the apparition of a pretended spectre\u003cbr\u003e 36. Of spectres which haunt houses\u003cbr\u003e 37. Other instances of spectres which haunt certain houses\u003cbr\u003e 38. Prodigious effects of imagination in those men or women who believe they hold intercourse with the demon\u003cbr\u003e 39. Return and apparitions of souls after the death of the body, proved from Scripture\u003cbr\u003e 40. Apparitions of spirits proved from history\u003cbr\u003e 41. More instances of apparitions\u003cbr\u003e 42. On the apparitions of spirits who imprint their hands on clothes or on wood\u003cbr\u003e 43. Opinions of the Jews, Greeks, and Latins, concerning the dead who are left unburied\u003cbr\u003e 44. Examination of what is required or revealed to the living by the dead who return to earth\u003cbr\u003e 45. Apparitions of men still alive, to other living men, absent, and very distant from each other\u003cbr\u003e 46. Arguments concerning apparitions\u003cbr\u003e 47. Objections against apparitions, and replies to those objections\u003cbr\u003e 48. Some other objections and replies\u003cbr\u003e 49. The secrets of physics and chemistry taken for supernatural things\u003cbr\u003e 50. Conclusion of the treatise on apparitions\u003cbr\u003e 51. Way of explaining apparitions\u003cbr\u003e 52. The difficulty of explaining the manner in which apparitions make their appearance, whatever system may be proposed on the subject.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266075578648,"sku":"9781108044257","price":34.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108044257i_a5ce9614-b2bf-4e18-9082-d654e8f19ea3.jpg?v=1696746636","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-phantom-world-or-the-philosophy-of-spirits-apparitions-etc-paperback-9781108044257","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}