Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants of Hungary, Moravia, et al.
Subtitle: The Complete Volumes 1 and 2: Expanded edition.
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9781533145680
Description: A treatise of a 1700's abbot monk Augustin Calmet surfaced two centuries ago regarding the supernatural and scientific phenomenon that plagued Europe in an era when Magic, witchcraft, demonology, instances of haunting and even cases of vampires were recorded in historical documentation. It was during the age of reason when a Black Monk from the Benedictine Order of the 18th century, penned a work that would become one of the most influential and controversial works of his time. A plethora of cases regarding events in the supernatural had plagued mankind with fear and mystery throughout history, many inhabitants to the regions of Europe came under an epidemic of social hysteria which steamed from reports of corpses rising from their graves, killing and sucking the blood of victims inhabiting small villages or visitations and the haunting of ghosts, evil spirits and demons. The Black Monk, Abbot Don Augustin Calmet tasked himself with the study of these real and historically documented reports for the purpose of providing the public with the rules to determine a claim's legitimacy through philosophical reasoning and scientific examination that was approved by the King of France in 1746. This work provides an in depth look into the history of most superstitions, mythologies, the analysis of events depicted in ancient texts from various religions and historically renowned cases which had in fact occurred.

Calmet lays out the rules for determining the fraudulent claims from the real while also providing a "how to" manual when dealing with or investigating occult matters in witchcraft, ghosts, vampires and demonic possessions. This work was written by an ordained abbot monk and was accepted by European society as scientific research in his time.

This new edition includes translations from the French and Italian works that are being published for the first time! Including the missing letters, detailed notes definitions, and translations of Latin, Italian and French phrases quotes and citations

This treatise investigates a number of topics:

VOL I

DISSERTATION ON
THE APPEARANCE OF ANGELS
DEMONS
SPIRITS / SPECTERS
MAGIC, WITCHES, WIZARDS, ORACLES, POSSESSIONS, ETC

VOL II

DISSERTATION ON
THE APPARITIONS OF THE SOULS OF THE DEAD
THE APPEARANCE OF THE LIVING AS PROJECTIONS
THE GHOSTS WHO RETURN TO THE EARTHLY BODY
THE OUPIRES OR VAMPIRES, VROUCOLACAS, ETC.

From Volume 1
* Angelic and demonic intervention
* The reality and mythology of magic; divination; curses
* Understanding the difference between real accounts vs that of impostors
* Examples and instances of real possessions caused by the devil
* The power and authority which Satan and demons possess
* False prophets and predictions of happenstance;
* The appearance and examinations of specters and pretended specters
* Examinations on Specters that haunt houses
* The dead who return to the earth
* Explanations and objections on the instances of apparitions;

* The studies on Familiars; Elves
* The secrets of physics and chemistry taken as supernatural things

Also included from volume 2
* Resurrection of the dead
* Instances of people returning from the grave
* Examination to people being buried alive but thought to be dead
* Examinations of (then) modern revenants, ghosts and vampires
* The study of vampires, ghosts in mythology and religions
* Historically recorded accounts of vampires between the 17th and 18th centuries
* Examinations on bodies that do not decay and corpses that show life after death
* The power of demons to kill and restore life
* On the return of the excommunicated
* Instances of bodies that devour their own flesh
* Instances on exhumed bodies and their examinations
* Analysis on whether vampires or revenants are truly dead
* Instances of people returning from the grave months after declared deceased.
Table of contents: title: HISTORY OF ABBOT DOM ANTOINE AUGUSTIN CALMET	viii.; title: WORKS OF DON AUGUSTIN CALMET	ix.; title: INTRODUCTIONS	xi.; title: VOLUME I; title: PREFACE………………………………………………………………………………….5.; title: I. THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD ANGELS PROVED BY THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT	13.; title: II. THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD ANGELS PROVED BY THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.	16.; title: III. UNDER WHAT FORM HAVE GOOD ANGELS APPEARED?	20.; title: IV. OPINIONS OF THE JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MAHOMETANS, AND ORIENTAL NATIONS CONCERNING THE APPARITIONS OF GOOD ANGELS.	25.; title: V. OPINION OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS ON THE APPARITIONS OF GOOD GENII.	29.; title: VI. THE APPARITION OF BAD ANGELS PROVED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTURES—UNDER WHAT FORM THEY HAVE APPEARED	35.; title: VII. OF MAGIC	44.; title: VIII. OBJECTIONS TO THE REALITY OF MAGIC.	50.; title: IX. REPLY TO THE OBJECTIONS	53.; title: X. EXAMINATION OF THE AFFAIR OF HOCQUE, MAGICIAN.	59.; title: XI. MAGIC OF THE EGYPTIANS AND CHALDEANS	64.; title: XII. MAGIC AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS	68.; title: XIII. EXAMPLES WHICH PROVE THE REALITY OF MAGIC	72.; title: XIV. EFFECTS OF MAGIC ACCORDING TO THE POETS	80.; title: XV. OF THE PAGAN ORACLES	83.; title: XVI. THE CERTAINTY OF THE EVENT PREDICTED IS NOT ALWAYS A PROOF THAT THE PREDICTION COMES FROM GOD	87.; title: XVII. REASONS WHICH LEAD US TO BELIEVE THAT THE GREATER PART OF THE ANCIENT ORACLES WERE ONLY IMPOSITIONS OF THE PRIESTS AND PRIESTESSES, WHO FEIGNED THEY WERE INSPIRED BY GOD	92.; title: XVIII. ON SORCERERS AND SORCERESSES, OR WITCHES	97.; title: XIX. INSTANCES OF SORCERERS AND WITCHES BEING, AS THEY SAID, TRANSPORTED TO THE SABBATH	103.; title: XX. STORY OF LOUIS GAUFREDI AND MAGDALEN DE LA PALUD, OWNED BY THEMSELVES TO BE A SORCERER AND SORCERESS	108.; title: XXI. REASONS WHICH PROVE THE POSSIBILITY OF SORCERERS AND WITCHES BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE SABBATH	114.; title: XXII. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT	122.; title: XXIII. OBSESSION AND POSSESSION OF THE DEVIL	125.; title: XXIV. THE TRUTH AND REALITY OF POSSESSION AND OBSESSION BY THE DEVIL PROVED FROM SCRIPTURE	129.; title: XXV. EXAMPLES OF REAL POSSESSIONS CAUSED BY THE DEVIL	132.; title: XXVI. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT	137.; title: XXVII. OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE OBSESSIONS AND POSSESSIONS OF THE DEMON—REPLY TO THE OBJECTIONS	144.; title: XXVIII. CONTINUATION OF OBJECTIONS AGAINST POSSESSIONS, AND SOME REPLIES TO THOSE OBJECTIONS	150.; title: XXIX. OF FAMILIAR SPIRITS	157.; title: XXX. SOME OTHER EXAMPLES OF ELVES	164.; title: XXXI. SPIRITS THAT KEEP WATCH OVER TREASURE	172.; title: XXXII. OTHER INSTANCES OF HIDDEN TREASURES WHICH WERE GUARDED BY GOOD OR BAD SPIRITS	178.; title: XXXIII. SPECTERS WHICH APPEAR, AND PREDICT THINGS UNKNOWN AND TO COME	182.; title: XXXIV. OTHER APPARITIONS OF SPECTERS	186.; title: XXXV. EXAMINATION OF THE APPARITION OF A PRETENDED SPECTER	191.; title: XXXVI. OF SPECTERS WHICH HAUNT HOUSES	194.; title: XXXVII. OTHER INSTANCES OF SPECTERS WHICH HAUNT CERTAIN HOUSES	200.; title: XXXVIII. PRODIGIOUS EFFECTS OF IMAGINATION IN THOSE MEN OR WOMEN WHO BELIEVE THEY HOLD INTERCOURSE WITH THE DEMON             204.; title: XXXIX. RETURN AND APPARITIONS OF SOULS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY, PROVED FROM SCRIPTURE	209.; title: XL. APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS PROVED FROM HISTORY	214.; title: XLI. MORE INSTANCES OF APPARITIONS	222.; title: XLII. ON THE APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS WHO IMPRINT THEIR HANDS ON CLOTHES OR ON WOOD	228.; title: XLIII. OPINIONS OF THE JEWS, GREEKS, AND LATINS CONCERNING THE DEAD WHO ARE LEFT UNBURIED	235.; title: XLIV. EXAMINATION OF WHAT IS REQUIRED OR REVEALED TO THE LIVING BY THE DEAD WHO RETURN TO EARTH.	243.; title: XLV. APPARITIONS OF MEN STILL ALIVE, TO OTHER LIVING MEN, ABSENT, AND VERY DISTANT FROM EACH OTHER.	248.; title: XLVI. ARGUMENTS CONCERNING APPARITIONS 	263.; title: XLVII. OBJECTIONS AGAINST APPARITIONS, AND REPLIES TO THOSE OBJECTIONS	270.; title: XLVIII. SOME OTHER OBJECTIONS AND REPLIES	275.; title: XLIX. THE SECRETS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY TAKEN FOR SUPERNATURAL THINGS	282.; title: L. CONCLUSION OF THE TREATISE ON APPARITIONS	286.; title: LI. WAY OF EXPLAINING APPARITIONS	291.; title: LII. THE DIFFICULTY OF EXPLAINING THE MANNER IN WHICH APPARITIONS MAKE THEIR APPEARANCE, WHATEVER SYSTEM MAY BE PROPOSED ON THE SUBJECT	293.; title: VOLUME II; title: PREFACE………………………………………………………………………………303.; title: I. THE RESURRECTION OF A DEAD PERSON IS THE WORK OF GOD ONLY	307.; title: II. ON THE REVIVAL OF PERSONS WHO WERE NOT REALLY DEAD	311.; title: III. REVIVAL OF A MAN WHO HAD BEEN INTERRED FOR THREE YEARS, AND WAS RESUSCITATED BY ST. STANISLAUS	313.; title: IV. CAN A MAN WHO IS REALLY DEAD APPEAR IN HIS OWN BODY?	316.; title: V. REVIVAL OR APPARITION OF A GIRL WHO HAD BEEN DEAD SOME MONTHS	320.; title: VI. A WOMAN TAKEN ALIVE FROM HER GRAVE	324.; title: VII. LET US NOW EXAMINE THE FACT OF THE REVENANTS OR VAMPIRES OF MORAVIA	326.; title: VIII. DEAD PERSONS IN HUNGARY WHO SUCK THE BLOOD OF THE LIVING	329.; title: IX. ACCOUNT OF A VAMPIRE, TAKEN FROM THE JEWISH LETTERS (LETTRES JUIVES); LETTER 137	331.; title: X. OTHER INSTANCES OF GHOSTS—CONTINUATION OF THE GLEANER	333.; title: XI. ARGUMENTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THE "JEWISH LETTERS," ON THE SUBJECT OF THESE PRETENDED GHOSTS	336.; title: XII. CONTINUATION OF THE ARGUMENT OF THE "DUTCH GLEANERS," OR "GLANEUR HOLLANDAIS.”	341.; title: XIII. NARRATION EXTRACTED FROM THE "MERCURE GALENT" OF 1693 AND 1694, CONCERNING GHOSTS	345.; title: XIV. CONJECTURES OF THE "GLANEUR DE HOLLANDE," DUTCH GLEANER, IN 1733. — NO. IX	346.; title: XV. ANOTHER LETTER ON GHOSTS	350.; title: XVI. PRETENDED VESTIGES OF VAMPIRISM IN ANTIQUITY	353.; title: XVII. OF GHOSTS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES	358.; title: XVIII. GHOSTS IN ENGLAND	360.; title: XIX. GHOSTS IN PERU	362.; title: XX. GHOSTS IN LAPLAND	363.; title: XXI. REAPPEARANCE OF A MAN WHO HAD BEEN DEAD FOR SOME MONTHS	364.; title: XXII. EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS WHO GO OUT OF THE CHURCHES	369.; title: XXIII. SOME OTHER INSTANCES OF EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS BEING CAST OUT OF CONSECRATED GROUND	372.; title: XXIV. AN INSTANCE OF AN EXCOMMUNICATED MARTYR BEING CAST OUT OF THE EARTH	374.; title: XXV. A MAN REJECTED FROM THE CHURCH FOR HAVING REFUSED TO PAY TITHES	376.; title: XXVI. INSTANCES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SHOWN SIGNS OF LIFE AFTER THEIR DEATH, AND WHO HAVE DRAWN BACK FROM RESPECT, TO MAKE ROOM OR GIVE PLACE TO SOME WHO WERE MORE WORTHY THAN THEMSELVES	377.; title: XXVII. OF PERSONS WHO PERFORM A PILGRIMAGE AFTER THEIR DEATH	380.; title: XXVIII. ARGUMENT CONCERNING THE EXCOMMUNICATED WHO QUIT CHURCHES	382.; title: XXIX. DO THE EXCOMMUNICATED ROT IN THE GROUND?  	386.; title: XXX. INSTANCES TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE EXCOMMUNICATED DO NOT DECAY, AND THAT THEY APPEAR TO THE LIVING	388.; title: XXXI. INSTANCE OF THE REAPPEARANCES OF THE EXCOMMUNICATED	390.; title: XXXII. VROUCOLACA EXHUMED IN PRESENCE OF MONSIEUR DE TOURNEFORT 	  392.; title: XXXIII. HAS THE DEMON POWER TO CAUSE ANYONE TO DIE AND THEN TO RESTORE THE DEAD TO LIFE? 	397.; title: XXXIV. EXAMINATION OF THE OPINION WHICH CONCLUDES THAT THE DEMON CAN RESTORE MOTION TO A DEAD BODY	400.; title: XXXV. INSTANCES OF PHANTOMS WHICH HAVE APPEARED TO BE ALIVE, AND HAVE GIVE MANY SIGNS OF LIFE	404.; title: XXXVI. DEVOTING TO DEATH, A PRACTICE AMONG THE PAGANS…  	407.; title: XXXVII. INSTANCES OF DEVOTING OR DOOMING AMONGST CHRISTIANS  	411.; title: XXXVIII. INSTANCES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE PROMISED TO GIVE EACH OTHER NEWS OF THE OTHER WORLD AFTER THEIR DEATH	416.; title: XXXIX. EXTRACT FROM THE POLITICAL WORKS OF M. L'ABBE DE ST. PIERRE	422.; title: XL. DIVERS SYSTEMS FOR EXPLAINING THE RETURN OF SPIRITS	429.; title: XLI. VARIOUS INSTANCES OF PERSONS BEING BURIED ALIVE	432.; title: XLII. INSTANCES OF DROWNED PERSONS RECOVERING THEIR HEALTH	435.; title: XLIII. INSTANCES OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN BELIEVED TO BE DEAD, AND WHO HAVE COME TO LIFE AGAIN	438.; title: XLIV. CAN THESE INSTANCES BE APPLIED TO THE HUNGARIAN GHOSTS?	441.; title: XLV. DEAD PERSONS WHO CHEW IN THEIR GRAVES LIKE HOGS, AND DEVOUR THEIR OWN FLESH	442.; title: XLVI. SINGULAR INSTANCE OF A HUNGARIAN GHOST	444.; title: XLVII. REASONINGS ON THIS MATTER	446.; title: XLVIII. ARE THE VAMPIRES OR REVENANTS REALLY DEAD?	448.; title: XLIX. INSTANCE OF A MAN NAMED CURMA WHO WAS SENT BACK INTO THE WORLD	457.; title: L. INSTANCES OF PERSONS WHO COULD FALL INTO A TRANCE WHEN THEY PLEASED, AND REMAINED PERFECTLY SENSELESS	462.; title: LI. APPLICATION OF THE PRECEDING INSTANCES TO VAMPIRES	465.; title: LII. EXAMINATION OF THE OPINION THAT THE DEMON FASCINATES THE EYES OF THOSE TO WHOM VAMPIRES APPEAR	470.; title: LIII. INSTANCES OF PERSONS RESUSCITATED, WHO RELATE WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN IN THE OTHER WORLD	473.; title: LIV. THE TRADITIONS OF THE PAGANS CONCERNING THE FUTURE LIFE ARE DERIVED FROM THE HEBREWS AND EGYPTIANS	477.; title: LV. INSTANCES OF CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE BEEN RESUSCITATED AND SENT BACK TO THE WORLD—VISION OF VETINUS, A MONK OF AUGIA	480.; title: LVI. THE VISION OF BERTHOLDUS, AS RELATED BY HINCMAR, ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS	483.; title: LVII. THE VISION OF SAINT FURSIUS	485.; title: LVIII. VISION OF A PROTESTANT OF YORK, AND OTHERS	487.; title: LIX. CONCLUSIONS OF THIS DISSERTATION	492.; title: LX. THE MORAL IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE REVENANTS COMING OUT OF THEIR GRAVES	495.; title: LXI. WHAT IS RELATED CONCERNING THE BODIES OF THE EXCOMMUNICATED LEAVING THE CHURCH, IS SUBJECT TO VERY GREAT DIFFICULTIES	498.; title: LXII. REMARKS ON THE DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE SPIRIT WHICH REAPPEARED AT ST. MAUR DES FOSSES	501.; title: LXIII DISSERTATION BY AN ANONYMOUS WRITER	511.; title: LETTERS	535.; title: I. LETTER OF M. THE MARQUIS MAFFEI ON MAGIC.	537.; title: II. FROM THE REVEREND FATHER DOM AUGUSTINE CALMET, ABBOT OF SENONES, TO M. DE BURE SENIOR, LIBRARIAN AT PARIS	581.; title: EDITOR’S NOTE………………………………………………………………………………..595.