Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. On Monsters and Marvels
7. Preface 1
8. 1. The Causes of Monsters 3
9. 2. An Example of the Glory of God 4
10. 3. An Example of the Wrath of God 5
11. 4. An Example of Too Great a Quantity of Seed 8
12. 5. On Women Who Carry Several Children during One Pregnancy 23
13. 6. On Hermaphrodites or Androgynes 26
14. 7. Memorable Stories about Women Who Have Degenerated into Men 31
15. 8. An Example of Lack in the Quantity of Seed 33
16. 9. An Example of Monsters That Are Created through the Imagination 38
17. 10. An Example of the Narrowness or the Smallness of the Womb 42
18. 11. An Example of Monsters That Are Formed, the Mother Having Remained Seated Too Long, Having Had Her Legs Crossed, or Having Bound Her Belly Too Tight While She Was Pregnan 43
19. 12. An Example of Monsters Who Are Created, the Mother Having Received Some Blow or Fall, Being Great with Child 46
20. 13. An Example of Monsters That Are Created by Hereditary Diseases 46
21. 14. An Example of Monstrous Things Which Have Occurred in Accidental Illnesses 48
22. 15. Of Stones That Are Engendered in the Human Body 49
23. 16. On Certain Monstrous Animals That Are Born Abnormally in the Bodies of Men, Women, and Small Children 53
24. 17. On Certain Strange Things That Nature Repels through Her In6nite Providence 60
25. 18. An Example of Several Other Strange Things 64
26. 19. An Example of Monsters Created through Corruption and Putrefaction 66
27. 20. An Example of the Mixture or Mingling of Seed 67
28. 21. An Example of the Artifice of Wicked Spital Beggars 74
29. 22. The Imposture of a Woman Beggar Who Pretended to Have a Canker on Her Breast 74
30. 23. The Imposture of a Certain Beggar Who Was Counterfeiting a Leper 76
31. 24. About a Hedge-Whore Beggar-Woman Pretending to Be Sick with Saint Fiacre's Disease, and a Long Thick Gut Made by Trickery Came out of Her Bum 81
32. 25. About a Fat Wench from Normandy, Who Pretended to Have a Snake in Her Belly 83
33. 26. An Example of Monstrous Things Done by Demons and Sorcerers 85
34. 27. About Those Who Are Possessed of Demons, Who Speak in Various Parts of Their Bodies 88
35. 28. How Demons Inhabit Quarries or Mines 89
36. 29. How Demons Can Deceive Us 91
37. 30. An Example of Several Diabolical Illusions 94
38. 31. On the Art of Magic 95
39. 32. On Certain Strange Illnesses 97
40. 33. On Incubi and Succubi According to Physicians 105
41. 34. On "Point-Knotters" 105
42. Other Stories Not off the Subject 106
43. 35. Concerning Marine Monsters 107
44. 36. On Fiying Monsters 136
45. 37. On Terrestrial Monsters 141
46. 38. On Celestial Monsters 150
47. 39. (On Natural Disasters] 158
48. Appendix 1. Items from the Discourse on the Unicorn 163
49. Appendix 2. From The Book of Tumors 170
50. Appendix 3. From The Sicke Womans Private Looking-Glasse 174
51. Suggested Identifications 177
52. Notes 181
53. Bibliography 208
54. Index 213