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

213

Agobard de Grandine.

214

Vide Baluzii in Agobard. pp. 68, 69.

215

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

216

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

217

Bolland, 5 Jul. p. 287.

218

Causes Célèbres, tom. vi. p. 192.

219

Job i. 12, 13, 22.

220

2 Cor. xii. 7, 8.

221

John xiii. 2.

222

Matt. xxiv. 5.

223

Luke xxi.

224

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.

225

Matt. iv. 5.

226

Dan. xiv. 33, 34. Douay Version.

227

Acts viii. 40.

228

Joan. Diacon. Vit. Gregor. Mag.

229

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

230

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

231

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

232

Ibid. 31 Jul. pp. 432, 663.

233

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

234

Ibid. 18 Aug. p. 503.

235

Ibid. 17 Aug. p. 255.

236

Ibid. 4 Aug. p. 405.

237

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

238

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

239

Vita Sancti Dunstani, xi. 42.

240

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.

241

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

242

1 Sam. xvi. 23.

243

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

244

Tob. iii. 8.

245

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

246

James i. 14.

247

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

248

Ibid. lib. viii. c. 2.

249

Matt. xii. 24.

250

Luke viii. 21.

251

Luke x. 17.

252

Mark xvi. 27.

253

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

254

Acts xix. 14.

255

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

256

Charles IX. died in 1574.

257

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.

258

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.

259

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 very remarkable. – Editor.

260

Matt. xii. 24-27. Luke xi. 15-18.

261

Matt. viii. 29.

262

Tertullian does not say so much in the passage cited; on the contrary, he affirms that we are ignorant of their nature: substantia ignoratur.

263

See the letter of the Bishop of Senez, printed at Utrecht, in 1736, and the works that he therein cites and refutes.

264

Erasm. Orat. de laudibus Medicinæ.

265

Le Loyer, lib. de Spec. cap. ii. p. 288.

266

Fernel, de abditis Rerum Causis, lib. ii. c. 26.

267

August. contra Academic. lib. ii. art. 17, 18.

268

Acts xvi. 16.

269

Matt. xviii. 10.

270

Psalm xc. 11.

271

Isai. xiii. 22. Pilosi saltabunt ibi.

272

Isai. xxxiv. 15.

273

Cassian, Collat. vii. c. 23.

274

"Quos seductores et joculatores esse manifestum est, cùm nequaquam tormentis eorum, quos prætereuntes potuerint decipere, oblectentur, sed de risu tantum modò et illusione contenti, fatigare potiùs, studeant, quám nocere."

275

Plin. i. 7. Epist. 27, suiv.

276

Life of Plotin. art. x.

277

Chron. Hirsaug. ad ann. 1130.

278

Geo. Agricola, de Mineral. Subterran. p. 504.

279

Olaus Mag. lib. iii. Hist. 5, 9-14.

280

Olaus Mag. lib. vi. c. 9.

281

Le Loyer, p. 474.

282

Ibid. liv. ii. p. 258.

283

Ibid. p. 550.

284

St. Sulpit. Sever. Dialog. ii. c. 14, 15.

285

Bodin Demonomania, lib. ii. c. 2.

286

Guillelm. Paris, 2 Part. quæst. 2, c. 8.

287

Grot. Epist. Part. ii. Ep. 405.

288

They affirm that it happened at Dijon, in the family of the MM. Surmin, in which a constant tradition has perpetuated the memory of the circumstance.

289

Continuation of the Count de Gabalis, at the Hague, 1708, p. 55.

290

Cicero, de Divinat. lib. i.

291

John xiv. 2.

292

Matt. iv. 8.

293

Job iii. 13, 14, 22.

294

Joseph. Ant. lib. xiii.

295

Martian. lib. iv.

296

Le Loyer, liv. ii. p. 495.

297

Remy, Demonol. c. iv. Ann. 1605.

298

M. le Chevalier Guiot de Marre.

299

See Vagenseil Opera liborum Juvenil. tom. ii. p. 295, the Geography of Hubner, and the Geographical Dictionary of la Martinière, under the name Hamelen.

300

Sueton. in Jul. Cæsar.

301

Dio. Cassius. lib. lxviii.

302

Diogen. Laert. in Simon. Valer. Maxim. lib. xxiii.

303

Julian, apud Cyrill. Alex.

304

Plutarch in Cimone.

305

Pausanias, lib. i. c. 324.

306

Moshovius, p. 22.

307

See the following chapter.

308

Vie de Gassendi, tom. i. p. 258.

309

Alais is a town in Lower Languedoc, the lords of which bear the title of prince, since this town has passed into the House of Angoulême and De Conty.

310

Plin. junior, Epist. ad Suram. lib. vii. cap. 27.

311

In Philo pseud. p. 840.

312

Bolland, 31 Jul. p. 211.

313

Plaut. Mostell. act. ii. v. 67.

314

Vide Joan. Vier. de Curat. Malific. c. 215.

315

Tob. viii.

316

Thyræi Demoniaci cum locis infestis.

317

S. Aug. de Civ. lib. xxii. 8.

318

S. Greg. Mag. Dial. cap. 39.

319

Alexander ab Alexandro, lib. v. 23.

320

Causes Célèbres, tom. xi. p. 374.

321

Mém. de Cardinal de Retz, tom. i. pp. 43, 44

322

Gen. vi. 1, 2.

323

Athenagorus and Clem. Alex. lib. iii. & v. Strom. & lib. ii. Pedagog.

324

Joseph. Antiq. lib. i. c. 4.

325

Justin. Apolog. utroque.

326

Vita St. Bernard, tom. i. lib. 20.

327

Cardan, de Variet. lib. xv. c. lxxx. p. 290.

328

Matt. vi. 16. Mark vi. 43.

329

Acts xii. 13, 14.

330

Luke xxi. 14, 15.

331

Luke ix. 32.

332

Matt. xxvii. 34.

333

1 Sam. xxviii. 7, ad finem.

334

Augustin de Diversis Quæst. ad Simplicium, Quæst. cxi.

335

Acts xxvi. 17.

336

Macc. x. 29.

337

2 Macc. x. 29.

338

1 Macc. xi. 1.

339

Deut. xviii. 11.

340

Gen. xix. 11.

341

2 Kings vi. 19.

342

Luke xxvi. 16.

343

Aug. de Curâ gerendâ pro Mortuis, c. xiii.

344

Aug. de Curâ gerend. pro Mortuis, c. x.

345

Concil. Eliber, auno circiter 300.

346

Amplilo. vita S. Basil. and Chronic. Alex. p. 692.

347

Acta sincera Mart. pp. 11, 22. Edit. 1713.

348

Paulin. vit. S. Ambros. n. 47, 48.

349

Ambros. Epist. 22, p. 874; vid. notes, ibid.

350

Evod. Upsal. apud Aug. Epist. clviii. Idem, Aug. Epist. clix.

351

"Animan igitur omni corpore carere omnino non posse, illud, ut puto, ostendit quia Deus solus omni corpore semper caret."

352

"Quid se præcipitat de rarissimis aut inexpertis quasi definitam ferre sententiam, cum quotidiana et continua non solvat?"

353

Palladius, Dialog, de Vita Chrysost. c. xi.

354

Lactant. de Mort. Persec. c. 46.

355

Acta sincera Martyr. passion. S. Theodos. M. pp. 343, 344.

356

Euseb. Hist. Eccles. lib. vi. c. 8.

357

Richer Senon. in Chronic. m. (Hoc non exstat in impresso).

358

Herman Contraet. Chronic. p. 1006.

359

D'Aubigné, Hist. Univ. lib. ii. c. 12. Ap. 1574.

360

Henry IV.

361

Mém. de Sully, in 4to. tom. i. liv. x. p. 562, note 26. Or Edit. in 12mo. tom. iii. p. 321, note 26.

362

Bongars, Epist. ad Camerarium.

363

Chronic. Metens. Anno, 1330.

364

Taillepied, Traité de l'Apparition des Esprits, c. xv. p. 173.

365

Anecdote Mabill, p. 320. Edition in fol.

366

Philipp. Melancth. Theolog. c. i. Oper. fol. 326, 327.

367

Martin Luther, de Abroganda Missa Privata, part. ii.

368

Ibid. tom. vii. 226.

369

Joseph Bell. Jud. lib. iii c. 25.

370

Deut. xxi. 23.

371

Homer, Iliad, XXIV.

372

Origenes contra Celsum, p. 97.

373

Origenes in Joan. ix. &c. Theophylac. ibid.

374

Tertull. lib. de Anima.

375

Origenes contra Cels. lib. ii.

376

Bereseith Rabbæ. c. 22. Vide Menasse de Resurrect. Mort.

377

"Parete precantiNon in Tartareo latitantem poscimus antro,Assuetamque diù tenebris; modò luce fugatâDescendentem animam primo pallentis hiatuHæret adhuc orci." Lucan, Pharsal. 16.

378

Porphyr. de Abstin. lib. ii. art. 47.

379

Demet. lib. iv. art. 10.

380

Gruter, p. lxiii. Mauric. Hist. de Metz, preface, p. 15.

381

Homer, Odyss. sub finem. Horat. lib. i. satyr. 8. Aug. de Civit. Dei, lib. vii. c. 35. Clem. Alex. Pædag. lib. ii. c. 1. Prudent. lib. iv. contra Symmach. Tertull. de Anim. Lactantius, lib. iii.

382

Virgil, Æn. iii. 150, et seq.

"Proptereà jacet exanimum tibi corpus amici,Heu nescis! totamque incestat funere classem.Sedibus hunc refer ante suis et conde sepulcre."

383

"Animamque sepulchroCondimus, et magnâ supremum voce ciemus."

384

"Romulus ut tumulo fraternas condidit umbras,Et malè veloci justa soluta Remo."

385

"Hæc omnis, quam cernis, inops inhumataque turba est.Centum errant annos, volitantque hæc littora circum."

386

Sallust. Philos. c. 19, 20.

387

Stolust. lib. ii. de Bella Persico, sub fin.

388

"Sequar atris ignibus absens;Et cum frigida mors animæ subduxerit artus,Omnibus umbra lecis adero: dubis, improbe, pœnas."

389

Homer, Iliad, XXIII.

390

Ibid. Odyss. V.

391

"Infelix simulacrum etque ipsius umbra CreüsæVisa mihi ante oculos, et notâ major imago." Virgil, Æneid I.

392

Tertull. de Anim.

393

Ibid.

394

Iren. lib. ii. c. 34.

395

Greg. Mag. lib. iv. Dialog. c. 55.

396

Cor. xi. 14.

397

Rev. xxi. 14.

398

Bodin, Dæmon. tom. iii. c. 6.

399

Rev. xxi. 27.

400

Sulpit. Sever. Vita St. Martin. c. 5.

401

Ratzivil, Peregrin, Jerosol. p. 218.

402

Ezek. viii. 1, 2, &c.

403

Matt. xvii. 3.

404

Acts ix. 10.

405

Acts ix. 2.

406

Ammian. Marcell. lib. xix. Sozomen. lib. vi. c. 35.

407

Aug. lib. viii. de Civit. c. 18.

408

Aug. Serm. cxxiii. pp. 1277, 1278.

409

Aug. de curâ gerendâ pro Mortuis, c. 11, 12.

410

Aug. de curâ gerend. pro Mort. c. xxvii. p. 529.

411

Vita Daniel Stylit. xi. Decemb.

412

Gregor. lib. ii. Dialog. c. xxii.

413

Vita Sancti Euthym. pp. 86, 87.

414

Le Brun, Traité des Superstit. tom. i. pp. 281, 282, et seq.

415

Aug. de Civit. Dei, lib. x. c. 11, 12.

416

Tertull. de Animâ, c. 57.

417

Gen. xviii. 10.

418

Heb. xiii. 2.

419

Acts vii. 30, 33.

420

Gal. iii.

421

Judges ii. 1.

422

Vide commentar. in Judic. ii.

423

Hagg. i. 13.

424

Malac. iii. 1.

425

Deut. xviii. 18.

426

Chron. xxi. 1.

427

2 Sam. xxiv. 1.

428

Gen. iii. 2, 3.

429

Job i. 7-9.

430

Luke xiii. 16.

431

Matt. xvii. 14. Luke ix. 37.

432

Ezek. xxi. 21.

433

Hosea iv. 12.

434

Aug. lib. xiv. de Civit. Dei, c. 24.

435

Galen. de Differ. Sympt.

436

By M. Fransquin Chanoine de Taul.

437

Ludov. Vives, lib. i. de Veritate Fidei, p. 540.

438

M. de S. André, Lett. iii. sur les Maléfices.

439

Matt. ii. 13,14.

440

S. Aug. lib. ii. retract. c. 30.

441

Gen. xviii.

442

Tob. xii. 19.

443

M. Lock. de Intellectu Human. lib. iv. c. 3.

444

Tob. xii. 18, 19.

445

John xi. 39.

446

Job xxi. 25.

447

1 Kings xiii. 21, 22.

448

2 Kings iv.

449

Ezek. xxxvii. 1, 2, 3.

450

1 John xii. 2.

451

2 Kings viii. 5.

452

The reverend fathers the Bollandists, believed that the life of St. Stanislaus, which they had printed, was very old, and nearly of the time of the martyrdom of the saint; or at least that it was taken from a life by an author almost his cotemporary, and original. But since the first edition of this dissertation it has been observed to me that the thing was by no means certain; that M. Baillet, on the 7th of May, in the critical table of authors, asserts that the life of St. Stanislaus was only written 400 years after his death, from uncertain and mutilated memoirs. And in the life of the saint he owns that it is only the tradition of the writers of the country which can render credible the account of the resurrection of Pierre. The Abbé Fleuri, tom. xiii. of the Ecclesiastical History, l. 62, year 1079, does not agree either to what is written in that life or to what has followed it. At any rate, the miracle of the resurrection of Pierre is related as certain in a discourse of John de Polemac, delivered at the Council of Constance, 1433; tom. xii. Councils, p. 1397.

453

Matt. ix. 34.

454

Matt. xxvii. 53.

455

Macc. xiv. 14, 15.

456

Origen. contra Celsum, lib. i. pp. 123, 124.

457

Herodot. lib. iv.

458

Phlegon. de Mirabilib. 18. Gronov. Antiq. Græc. p. 2694.

459

Aug. de Curâ pro Mortuis.

460

Rosweid. vit. P. P. lib. ii. p. 480.

461

Sozomen, Hist. Eccl. lib. i. c. 11.

462

Vit. P. P. lib. ii. p. 650.

463

This story is apparently the same which we related before under the name of Haidamaque, and which happened in 1729 or 1730.

464

Supplem. ad visu Erudit. Lips. an. 1738, tom. ii.

465

Tertull. de Resurrect. initio.

466

Aug. Confess. lib. vi. c. 2.

467

Aug. Epist. 22, ad Aurel. Carthag. et Epist. 29, ad Alipi. Item de Moribus Eccl. c. 34.

468

Aug. lib. viii. de Civit. Dei, c. 27.

469

Aug. Serm. 35, de Sanctis, nunc in Appendice, c. 5. Serm. cxc. cxci. p. 328.

470

Antiquité expliquée, tom. iv. p. 86.

471

Mela. lib. ii. c. 4.

472

V. Moréri on the word stryges.

473

There is reason to believe that this is only a repetition of what has already been said in Chapter X.

474

"Neu pransæ lamiæ vivum puerum ex trahat alvo." Horat. Art. Poet. 340.

475

"Carpere dicuntur lactentia viscera rostris,Et plenum poco sanguine guttur habent,Est illis strigibus nomen."

476

Capitul. Caroli Magni pro partibus Saxoniæ, i. 6: – "Si quis à Diabolo deceptus crediderit secundùm morem Paganorum, virum aliquem aut fœminam strigem esse, et homines comedere; et propter hoc ipsum incenderit, vel carnem ejus ad comedendum dederit, vel ipsam comederit capitis sententià puniatur."

477

Le Loyer, des Spectres, lib. ii. p. 427.

478

Mich. Glycas, part iv. Annal.

479

Aug. Epist. 658, and Epist. 258, p. 361.

480

Thomas Bartolin, de Causis Contemptûs Mortis à Danis, lib. ii. c. 2.

481

William of Malms. lib. ii. c. 4.

482

Andr. Alciat. Parergon Juris, viii. c. 22.

483

Betrus Venerab. Abb. Cluniac. de miracul. lib. i. c. 28. p. 1293.

484

Lib. ii. de Civ. Dei, cap. 24.

485

Aug. lib. ii. de Civ. Dei, c. 25.

486

Trith. Chron. Hirs. p. 155, ad an. 1013.

487

Idem, tom. ii. Chron. Hirs. p. 227.

488

Vita S. Leonis Papæ.

489

Plutarch, in Anton.

490

Greg. Magn. lib. ii. Dialog. c. 23.

491

Aug. de St. Virgin. c. xlv. 364.

492

Greg. lib. ii. Dialog. c. 34.

493

Amphil. in Vit. S. Basilii.

494

Vide Balsamon. ad Canon. 83. Concil. in Trullo, et Concil. Carthagin. III. c. 6. Hippon. c. 5. Antissiod. c. 12.

495

Vit. S. Othmari, c. 3.

496

Vit. S. Cuthberti, lib. iv. c. 2. apud Bolland. 26 Martii.

497

Amalar. de Offic. Eccles. lib. iv. c. 41.

498

Menard. not. in Sacrament. S. Greg. Magn. pp. 484, 485.

499

Humbert. Card. Bibliot. P. P. lib. xviii. et tom. iv. Concil.

500

Vit. S. Gothardi, Sæcul. vi. Bened. parte c. p. 434.

501

Tom. ix. Concil. an 1031, p. 702.

502

John Brompton, Chronic. vide ex Bolland. 26 Maii, p. 396.

503

Tertull. de Animo, c. 5. p. 597. Edit. Pamelii.

504

Chronic. Turon. inter opera Abælardi, p. 1195.

505

Bolland. tom. ii. p. 315, 13 Januar.

506

Evagrius Pont. lib. iv. c. 53.

507

Jean Mosch. pras. spirit. c. 88.

508

Melchior. lib. de Statu Mortuorum.

509

Concil. Meli. in Can. Nemo. 41, n. 43. D. Thom. iv. distinct. 18, 9. 2, art. 1. quæstiuncula in corpore, &c.

510

S. Leo canone Commun. 1. a. 4. 9. 2. See also Clemens III. in Capit. Sacris, 12. de Sepult. Eccl.

511

Eveillon, traité des Excommunicat. et Manitoires.

512

D. Thom. in iv. Sentent. dist. 1. qu. 1. art. 3. quæstiunc. 2. ad. 2.

513

Goar, not. in Eucholog. p. 688.

514

Vide Malva. lib. i. Turco-græcia, pp. 26, 27.

515

Vide Bolland. mense Augusto, tom. ii. pp. 201-203, et Allat. Epist. ad Zachiam, p. 12.

516

See, concerning the bodies of the excommunicated which are affirmed to be exempt from decay, Father Goar, Ritual of the Greeks, pp. 687, 688; Matthew Paris, History of England, tom. ii. p. 687; Adam de Brême, c. lxxv.; Albert de Stade, on the year 1050, and Monsieur du Cange, Glossar. Latinit. at the word imblocatus.