Abbe Simonnet Jacques Albin Simon Collin De Plancy (2 results)

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FIRST EDITION. Modern boards, uncut. First edition, "excessively rare"- Dorbon. A refutation of Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, which the author believes trivializes and negates the true existence of the paranormal. Here Simonnet provides anecdotal evidence for ghost sightings, miracles, witchcraft, werewolves, demons, and prophecies. In his conclusion, he asserts that denying the existence of these things is heresy. The text concludes with an alphabetic table of the authors cited. This work was so incendiary to the Catholic Church that the Vatican invested huge sums of money to remove copies from private libraries. Caillet 10217; Yve-Plessis 76; Dorbon 977; Barbier Anon IV: 16. …