Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction: Huge Claims, Vague Proof 1
6. Part One. Aloft
7. Introduction 25
8. 1. Hovering, Flying, and All That: A Brief History of Levitation 27
9. 2. Saint Teresa of Avila, Reluctant Aethrobat 72
10. 3. Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Shrieking Aerial Ecstatic 98
11. 4. Making Sense of the Flying Friar 136
12. Part Two. Here . . . and Here Too
13. Introduction 169
14. 5. Transvection, Teleportation, and All That: A Brief History of Bilocation 171
15. 6. María de Ágreda, Avatar of the Impossible 199
16. 7. The Trouble with María 222
17. Part Three. Malevolent
18. Introduction 253
19. 8. Tricksters of the Impossible 255
20. 9. Protestants, Deviltry, and the Impossible 289
21. 10. The Devil Himself 317
22. Epilogue: Vague Logic, Leaps of Faith 354
23. Appendix 1: Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Bilocators in America and Europe 379
24. Appendix 2: The Emergence of the “Lady in Blue” Legend: A Chronology 383
25. Notes 387
26. Credits 469
27. Index 475