The Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.. Calmet Augustin

nam ut cantu, nimiumque potentibus herbisVerterit in tacitos juvenilia corpora pisces."

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"Vipereo generi et graviter spirantibus hydrisSpargere qui somnos cantuque manque solebat,"

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Plin. lib. viii. c. 48.

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Herodot. lib. ix.

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Vide Joan. Marsham, Sæc. iv. pp. 62, 63.

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Pausan. lib. vii. p. 141.

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Homer, Iliad, xii. 2, 235.

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Herodot. lib. ii. c. 52, 55.

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Exod. xxv. 22.

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Deut. xviii. 13.

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2 Kings i. 2, 3, 16, &c.

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1 Sam. xiv. 24.

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Deut. xiii. 1, 2.

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Isaiah xli. 22, 23.

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Tertull. Apolog. c. 20.

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Hieronym. in Dan.

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Matt. xxiv. 11, 24.

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Jonah i. 2.

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2 Kings xx. 1. Isai. xxxviii. 1.

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Numb. xxii. xxiii. xxiv.

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Numb. xxxi. 8.

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Aug. de Divinat. Dæmon. c. 3, pp. 507, 508, et seq.

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Idem. c. 5.

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S. August. in his Retract. lib. ii. c. 30, owns that he advanced this too lightly.

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Porphr. apud Euseb. de Præpar. Evang. lib, iv. c. 5, 6.

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Plutarch, de Defectu Oracul. p. 434.

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Macrob. Saturnal. lib. i. c. 23.

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Lettres édifiantes, tom. x.

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Cicero, de Divinat. lib. ii. c. 57.

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"Reges timent futuraEt superos vetant loqui." Lucan, Pharsal. lib. v. p. 112.

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Strabo, lib. xvii.

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Joan. Vier. lib. ii. c. 7.

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A remarkably fine print on this subject was published at Paris some years ago; if we remember right, it was suppressed.

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Horat. Epodon. xviii. 4.

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"Quædam sceleratæ mulieres dæmonum illusionibus et phantasmatibus seductæ, credunt se et profitentur nocturnis horis cum Dianâ Paganorum deâ et innumerâ multitudine mulierum equitare super quasdam bestias et multa terrarum spalia intempestæ noctis silentio pertransire ejusque jussionibus veluti dominæ obedire." – Baluz. Capitular. fragment. c. 13. Vide et Capitul. Herardi, Episc. Turon.

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Agobard de Grandine.

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Vide Baluzii in Agobard. pp. 68, 69.

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Fleury, Hist. Eccles. tom. xvii. p. 53, ann. 1234.

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Alphons. à Castro ex Petro Grilland. Tract. de Hæresib.

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Bolland, 5 Jul. p. 287.

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Causes Célèbres, tom. vi. p. 192.

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Job i. 12, 13, 22.

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2 Cor. xii. 7, 8.

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John xiii. 2.

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Matt. xxiv. 5.

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Luke xxi.

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The attentive reader of this horrible narrative will hardly fail to conclude that Gaufredi's fault was chiefly his seduction of Mademoiselle de la Palud, and that the rest was the effect of a heated imagination. The absurd proportions of the "Sabbath" bell will be sufficient to show this. If the bell were metallic, it would have weighed many tons, and a wooden bell of such dimensions, even were it capable of sounding, would weigh many hundred weight.

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Matt. iv. 5.

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Dan. xiv. 33, 34. Douay Version.

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Acts viii. 40.

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Joan. Diacon. Vit. Gregor. Mag.

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Lettre de M. G. P. R., 5th October, 1746.

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On the 26th of May, of the Bollandists, c. xx. n. 356, 357.

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Acta S. J. Bolland. 3 Jul. p. 95.

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Ibid. 31 Jul. pp. 432, 663.

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Acta S. J. Bolland, 21 Aug. pp. 469, 481.

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Ibid. 18 Aug. p. 503.

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Ibid. 17 Aug. p. 255.

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Ibid. 4 Aug. p. 405.

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Vita S. Christina. 24 Jul. Bolland. pp. 652, 653.

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Nicole, tom. i. Letters, pp. 203, 205. Letter xlv.

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Vita Sancti Dunstani, xi. 42.

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It is worthy of remark, that in the cases which Calmet refers to of persons in his own time, and of his own acquaintance, being thus raised from the ground, he in no instance states himself to have been a witness of the wonder.

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Petrus Venerab. lib. ii. de Miraculis, c. 1, p. 1299.

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1 Sam. xvi. 23.

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Matt. viii. 16; x. 11; xviii. 28.

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Tob. iii. 8.

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Justin. Dialog. cum supplem. Tertull. de Corona Militis, c. 11; and Apolog. c. 23; Cyp. ad Demetriam, &c.; Minutius, in Octavio, &c.

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James i. 14.

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Joseph. Antiq. lib. vii. c. 25.

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Ibid. lib. viii. c. 2.

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Matt. xii. 24.

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Luke viii. 21.

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Luke x. 17.

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Mark xvi. 27.

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Mark ix. 36-38. Acts xi. 14.

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Acts xix. 14.

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Jean de Lorres, sur l'an 1599. Thuan. Hist. l. xii.

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Charles IX. died in 1574.

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This story is taken from a book entitled "Examen et Discussion Critique de l'Histoire des Diables de Loudun, &c., par M. de la Ménardaye." A Paris, chez de Bure l'Ainé, 1749.

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Trésor et entière Histoire de la Victime du Corps de Dieu, presentée au Pape, au Roi, au Chancelier de France, au Premier Président. A Paris, 4to. chez Chesnau. 1578.

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This account is one of the many in which the theory of possession was made use of to impugn the Protestant faith. The simplicity and credulity of Calmet are ve