{"product_id":"the-phantom-world-or-the-philosophy-of-spirits-apparitions-etc-paperback-9781108044264","title":"The Phantom World; Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, Etc (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108044264","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\"\u003e9781108044264, 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\"\u003e374 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 2.1 x 14 cm, 0.48 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 2 investigates tales of vampires and ghosts from many different European countries. 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\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. That the resurrection of a dead person is the work of God only\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revival of persons who were not really dead\u003cbr\u003e 3. Resurrection of a man who had been buried three years, resuscitated by St Stanislaus\u003cbr\u003e 4. Can a man really dead appear in his own body?\u003cbr\u003e 5. Revival or apparition of a girl who had been dead some months\u003cbr\u003e 6. A woman taken alive from her tomb\u003cbr\u003e 7. Revenans, or vampires of Moravia\u003cbr\u003e 8. Dead men of Hungary who suck the blood of the living\u003cbr\u003e 9. Narrative of a vampire from the Jewish Letters, Letter 137\u003cbr\u003e 10. Other instances of revenans. Continuation of the 'Gleaner'\u003cbr\u003e 11. Argument of the author of the Jewish Letters, concerning revenans\u003cbr\u003e 12. Continuation of the argument of the Dutch Gleaner\u003cbr\u003e 13. Narrative from the 'Mercure Gallant' of 1693 and 1694 on revenans\u003cbr\u003e 14. Conjectures of the Dutch Gleaner\u003cbr\u003e 15. Another letter on revenans\u003cbr\u003e 16. Pretended vestiges of vampirism in antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 17. Ghosts in northern countries\u003cbr\u003e 18. Ghosts in England\u003cbr\u003e 19. Ghosts in Peru\u003cbr\u003e 20. Ghosts in Lapland\u003cbr\u003e 21. Return of a man who had been dead some months\u003cbr\u003e 22. Excommunicated persons who went out of churches\u003cbr\u003e 23. Some instances of the excommunicated being rejected or cast out of consecrated ground\u003cbr\u003e 24. Instance of an excommunicated martyr being cast out of the ground\u003cbr\u003e 25. A man cast out of the church for having refused to pay tithes\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 27. People who perform pilgrimage after death\u003cbr\u003e 28. Reasoning upon the excommunicated who go out of churches\u003cbr\u003e 29. Do the excommunicated decay in the earth?\u003cbr\u003e 30. Instances to show that the excommunicated do not decay, and that they appear to the living\u003cbr\u003e 31. Instances of these returns to earth of the excommunicated\u003cbr\u003e 32. A Vroucolaca exhumed in the presence of M. de Tournefort\u003cbr\u003e 33. Has the demon power to kill, and then to restore to life?\u003cbr\u003e 34. Examination of the opinion that the demon can restore animation to a dead body\u003cbr\u003e 35. Instances of phantoms which have appeared to the living, and given many signs of life\u003cbr\u003e 36. Devoting people to death, practised by the heathens\u003cbr\u003e 37. Instances of dooming to death among Christians\u003cbr\u003e 38. Instances of persons who have promised to give each other news of themselves from the other world\u003cbr\u003e 39. Extracts from the political works of the Abbé de St Pierre\u003cbr\u003e 40. Divers systems to explain ghosts\u003cbr\u003e 41. Divers instances of persons being buried alive\u003cbr\u003e 42. Instances of drowned persons who have come back to life and health\u003cbr\u003e 43. Instances of women thought dead who came to life again\u003cbr\u003e 44. Can these instances be applied to the Hungarian revenans?\u003cbr\u003e 45. Dead people who masticate in their graves and devour their own flesh\u003cbr\u003e 46. Singular example of a Hungarian revenant\u003cbr\u003e 47. Argument on this matter\u003cbr\u003e 48. Are the vampires or revenans really dead?\u003cbr\u003e 49. Instance of a man named Curma being sent back to this world\u003cbr\u003e 50. Instances of persons who fall into ecstatic trances when they will, and remain senseless\u003cbr\u003e 51. Application of such instances to vampires\u003cbr\u003e 52. Examination of the opinion that the demon fascinates the eyes of those to whom vampires appear\u003cbr\u003e 53. Instances of resuscitated persons who relate what they saw in the other world\u003cbr\u003e 54. The traditions of the pagans on the other life, are derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians\u003cbr\u003e 55. Instances of Christians being resuscitated and sent back to this world. Vision of Vetinus, a monk of Augia\u003cbr\u003e 56. Vision of Bertholdus, related by Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims\u003cbr\u003e 57. Vision of St Fursius\u003cbr\u003e 58. Vision of a Protestant of York, and others\u003cbr\u003e 59. Conclusion of this dissertation\u003cbr\u003e 60. Moral impossibility that ghosts can come out of their tombs\u003cbr\u003e 61. That what is related of the bodies of the excommunicated who walk out of churches, is subject to very great difficulties\u003cbr\u003e 62. 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