293

XXVI. Instances of Persons who have given Signs of Life after
their Death, and have withdrawn themselves respectfully
to make room for more worthy Persons 294

XXVII. People who perform Pilgrimage after Death 296

XXVIII. Reasoning upon the Excommunicated who go out of
Churches 297

XXIX. Do the Excommunicated rot in the Earth? 300

XXX. Instances to show that the Excommunicated do not rot, and
that they appear to the Living 301

XXXI. Instances of these Returns to Earth of the Excommunicated 302

XXXII. A Vroucolacan exhumed in the presence of M. de
Tournefort 304

XXXIII. Has the Demon power to kill, and then to restore to
Life? 308

XXXIV. Examination of the Opinion that the Demon can restore
Animation to a Dead Body 310

XXXV. Instances of Phantoms which have appeared to the Living
and given many Signs of Life 313

XXXVI. Devoting People to Death, practised by the Heathens 314

XXXVII. Instances of dooming to Death among Christians 317

XXXVIII. Instances of Persons who have promised to give each
other News of themselves from the other World 321

XXXIX. Extracts from the Political Works of the Abbe de St.
Pierre 325

XL. Divers Systems to explain Ghosts 331

XLI. Divers Instances of Persons being Buried Alive 333

XLII. Instances of Drowned Persons who have come back to Life
and Health 335

XLIII. Instances of Women thought Dead who came to Life again 337

XLIV. Can these Instances be applied to the Hungarian Revenans? 339

XLV. Dead People who chew in their Graves and devour their own
Flesh 340

XLVI. Singular Example of a Hungarian Revenant 341

XLVII. Argument on this matter 343

XLVIII. Are the Vampires or Revenans really Dead? 344

XLIX. Instance of a Man named Curma being sent back to this
World