Volume 1: the appearance of good angels proved by the books of the Old Testament; the appearance of good angels proved by books of the New Testament; under what form have good angels appeared?; opinions of the Jews, Christians, Mahometans and oriental nations, concerning the apparitions of good angels; opinion of the Greeks and Romans on the apparitions of good genii; the apparition of bad angels proved by the Holy Scriptures - under what form they have appeared; of magic; objections to the reality of magic; reply to the objections; examination of the affair of Hocque, magician; magic of the Egyptians and Chaldeans; magic among the Greeks and Romans; examples which prove the reality of magic; effects of magic according to the poets; of the pagan oracles; the certainty of the event predicted, is not always a proof that the prediction comes from God; reasons which lead us to believe that the greater part of the ancient oracles were only impositions of the priests and priestesses, who feigned that they were inspired by God; on sorcerers and sorceresses, or witches; instances of sorcerers and witches being, as they said, transported to the Sabbath; story of Louis Gaufredi and Magdalen de la Palud, owned by themselves to be a sorcerer and sorceress; reasons which prove the possibility of sorcerers and witches being transported to the Sabbath; continuation of the same subject; obsession and possession by the devil; the truth and reality of possession and obsession by the devil proved from scripture; examples of real possession caused by the devil; continuation of the same subject; objections against the obsessions and possessions of the demon - reply to the objections; continuation of objections against possessions, and some replies to those objections; of familiar spirits; some other examples of elves; spirits that keep watch over treasure; other intsances of hidden treasures, which were guarded by good or bad spirits; spectres which appear, and predict things unknown and to come; other apparitions of spectres; examination of the apparition of a pretended spectre; of spectres which haunt houses; other instances of spectres which haunt certain houses; prodigious effects of imagination in those men or women who believe they hold intercouse with the demon; return and apparitions of souls after the death of the body, proved from scripture; apparitions of spirits proved from history; more instances of apparitions; on the apparitions of spirits who imprint their hands on clothes or on wood; opinions of the Jews, Greeks, and Latins, concerning the dead who are left unburied; examination of what is required or revealed to the living by the dead who return to earth; apparitions of men still alive, to other living men, absent and very distant from each other; arguments concerning apparitions; objections against apparitions, and replies to those objections; some other objections and replies; the secrets of physics and chemistry taken for supernatural things; co
