A case of levitation

In the last century, the reverend Father Dominic Carme Déchaux was raised from the ground before the King of Spain, the Queen, and all the court, so that they had only to blow upon his body to move it about like a soap-bubble.

Augustin Calmet (1672–1757)

In: Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires (1751), translated by Henry Christmas (1811–1868) as The Phantom World (1850)


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A case of levitation

In the last century, the reverend Father Dominic Carme Déchaux was raised from the ground before the King of Spain, the Queen, and all the court, so that they had only to blow upon his body to move it about like a soap-bubble.

Augustin Calmet (1672–1757)

In: Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires (1751), translated by Henry Christmas (1811–1868) as The Phantom World (1850)


Text on Project Gutenberg