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| Preface | |
| That the resurrection of a dead person is the work of God only | |
| Revival of persons who were not really dead | |
| Resurrection of a man who had been buried three years, resuscitated by St Stanislaus | |
| Can a man really dead appear in his own body? | |
| Revival or apparition of a girl who had been dead some months | |
| A woman taken alive from her tomb | |
| Revenans, or vampires of Moravia | |
| Dead men of Hungary who suck the blood of the living | |
| Narrative of a vampire from the Jewish Letters, Letter 137 | |
| Other instances of revenans. Continuation of the 'Gleaner' | |
| Argument of the author of the Jewish Letters, concerning revenans | |
| Continuation of the argument of the Dutch Gleaner | |
| Narrative from the 'Mercure Gallant' of 1693 and 1694 on revenans | |
| Conjectures of the Dutch Gleaner | |
| Another letter on revenans | |
| Pretended vestiges of vampirism in antiquity | |
| Ghosts in northern countries | |
| Ghosts in England | |
| Ghosts in Peru | |
| Ghosts in Lapland | |
| Return of a man who had been dead some months | |
| Excommunicated persons who went out of churches | |
| Some instances of the excommunicated being rejected or cast out of consecrated ground | |
| Instance of an excommunicated martyr being cast out of the ground | |
| A man cast out of the church for having refused to pay tithes | |
| Instances of persons who have given signs of life after their death, and have withdrawn themselves respectfully to make room for more worthy persons | |
| People who perform pilgrimage after death | |
| Reasoning upon the excommunicated who go out of churches | |
| Do the excommunicated decay in the earth? | |
| Instances to show that the excommunicated do not decay, and that they appear to the living | |
| Instances of these returns to earth of the excommunicated | |
| A Vroucolaca exhumed in the presence of M. de Tournefort | |
| Has the demon power to kill, and then to restore to life? | |
| Examination of the opinion that the demon can restore animation to a dead body | |
| Instances of phantoms which have appeared to the living, and given many signs of life | |
| Devoting people to death, practised by the heathens | |
| Instances of dooming to death among Christians | |
| Instances of persons who have promised to give each other news of themselves from the other world | |
| Extracts from the political works of the Abbé de St Pierre | |
| Divers systems to explain ghosts | |
| Divers instances of persons being buried alive | |
| Instances of drowned persons who have come back to life and health | |
| Instances of women thought dead who came to life again | |
| Can these instances be applied to the Hungarian revenans? | |
| Dead people who masticate in their graves and devour their own flesh | |
| Singular example of a Hungarian revenant | |
| Argument on this matter | |
| Are the vampires or revenans really dead? | |
| Instance of a man named Curma being sent back to this world | |
| Instances of persons who fall into ecstatic trances when they will, and remain senseless | |
| Application of such instances to vampires | |
| Examination of the opinion that the demon fascinates the eyes of those to whom vampires appear | |
| Instances of resuscitated persons who relate what they saw in the other world | |
| The traditions of the pagans on the other life, are derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians | |
| Instances of Christians being resuscitated and sent back to this world. Vision of Vetinus, a monk of Augia | |
| Vision of Bertholdus, related by Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims | |
| Vision of St Fursius | |
| Vision of a Protestant of York, and others | |
| Conclusion of this dissertation | |
| Moral impossibility that ghosts can come out of their tombs | |
| That what is related of the bodies of the excommunicated who walk out of churches, is subject to very great difficulties | |
| Remarks on the dissertation, concerning the spirit which appeared at St Maur des Foss | |
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