[CHAPTER XXXIII.]
- Antonio the Rich—Dreadful Announcement from a Volcano's
Mouth—Three Ghosts—Mozart apprehensive of Death—Mozart
writing a Requiem for himself—Messenger from another World—Mozart's
Death—Ghost of a Lady—A Haunted House—Iron
Cage—Youth starved to Death—Frightful Dreams and Dreadful
Sights—Dog frightened by a Spirit—Disturbed House—Duchess
of Mazarin—Madame de Beauclair—Compact between
the Living and the Dead—A Lady's Death foretold by a Spirit304
[CHAPTER XXXIV.]
- Sir George Villiers' Ghost—Duke of Buckingham Murdered—Lord
Lyttelton and others profaning Christmas—A Troubled
Mind—Apparition of a Suicide—Neglected Warning—Ominous
Hour—Lord Lyttelton found Dead at the dreaded time—Death
of an old Roman King—Alarming Prodigies—Tales from the
Eddas—A Scandinavian Warrior's Ghost—An Icelandic Lady's
Ghost—Fear of approaching Calamities—Association of Ghosts—Apparitions
of Drowned Men—Christians not disturbed by
Spectres—A Band of Demons—Priest exorcising Evil Spirits312
[CHAPTER XXXV.]
- A Mysterious Hunter—Man and Horse supposed to be Devils—Flagellation—Tales
of the Scotch Highlands—Croaking Raven—Death
of a suspected Witch—Resort of Witches and Evil
Spirits—Spirits hastening to a Church—Black Man with Eyes
like Fire—Horse breathing Smoke and Flame318
[CHAPTER XXXVI.]
- Churchmen subjected to the Onslaught of Demons—St. Maurus
rebuking Evil Spirits—St. Romualdus' Conflict with Satan—St.
Frances—St. Gregory—Monk in Purgatory—Institution of the
Thirty Masses for the Dead—An Excommunicated Gentleman—St.
Benedict and the Blackbird's Song—A Monk restored to
Life—St. Benedict's Sister ascending to Heaven—St. Francis'
Dominion over Living Creatures and the Elements—St. Catherine's
Power—St. Stanislaus' Miracles—A Dead Man giving
Evidence—The Dead refusing a Renewal of Life—St. Philip
Nerius and Evil Spirits—Spirits ministering to St. Erasmus—St.
Norbert—Story relating to Henry I.—St. Margaret's
Triumph—St. Ignatius—St. Stephen—Satan's Hatred of St.
Dominick—St. Donatus endowing a Corpse with Speech—St.
Cyriacus, St. Largus, and St. Smaragdus, the Martyrs—St.
Clare—St. Bernard's Power—St. Cæsarius' Wonder-working
Crook—St. Giles and the Hind—St. Euphemia's Guardian
Angels—St. Francis' Spirit—St. Bridget—St. Denis' Spirit—St.
Teresa and the Angels—St. Hilarian—St. Martin—St.
Catherine's Body carried by Angels to Mount Sinai—St. Francis
Xaverius' Belief in Virtue of Bells—St. Nicholas—St. Ambrose—St.
Lucy raising her Mother from the Dead—St. Anastasia
sustained by Bread from Heaven—St. Thomas enduring Martyrdom
in Life and after Death—Penance of Henry II.—Barbarous
Conduct of Henry VIII.—A Hungarian Legend323
[MAGIC AND ASTROLOGY.]
[CHAPTER XXXVII.]