^ a b "XLII/KWS 37/Dictionnaire infernal".^ Dictionnaire infernal: répertoire universel des êtres, des personnages, des livres, des faits et des choses qui tiennent aux esprits.The Dictionary of Demons: Names of the Damned. ^ Belanger, Michelle (8 October 2010).Dictionnaire Infernal 1863 (Sixth Edition w/Illustrations by Louis le Breton).Dictionnaire Infernal 1853 (Fifth Edition).Dictionnaire Infernal 1845 (Fourth Edition).Dictionnaire Infernal 1844 (Third Edition).
Dictionnaire Infernal 1826 (Reprint of Second Edition).Dictionnaire Infernal 1825 (Second Edition).Dictionnaire Infernal 1818 (First Edition).The Dictionaire Infernal had multiple releases over the years with varying contents: For a thousand different people they will have the same result and consulted twenty times about the same subject, they will produce twenty contradictory productions" (p. 82). But the cards, merely human artifacts, not knowing either the future, nor the present, nor the past, have nothing of the individuality of the person consulting them. For example, he admits the possible effectiveness of chiromancy, while rejecting cartomancy: "It is certain that chiromancy, and especially physiognomy, have at least some plausibility: they draw their predictions from signs which relate to features which distinguish and characterize people of lines which the subjects carry with themselves, which are the work of nature, and that someone can believe significant, since they are unique to each individual. Many articles written in the Dictionnaire Infernal illustrate the author's vacillation between rationalism, faith, and willingness to believe without evidence. de Plancy collaborated with Jacques Paul Migne, a French priest, to complete a Dictionary of the occult sciences or theological Encyclopaedia, which is described as an authentic Roman Catholic work.
This influence is most clearly seen in the sixth and final 1863 edition of the book, which is decorated with many engravings and seeks to affirm the existence of the demons. In later years, De Plancy rejected and modified his past works, thoroughly revising his Dictionnaire Infernal to conform with Roman Catholic theology. By the end of 1830 he was an enthusiastic Roman Catholic, to the consternation of his former admirers. The skepticism of Collin de Plancy increasingly subsided over time. Theologians should leave to the poets the depiction of Hell, and not themselves seek to frighten minds with hideous paintings and appalling books" (p. 164). All the catalogues made herebefore are only the fruit of a more or less disordered imagination. But only God could know the punishments meted out to the guilty, or the place that holds them. For example, the book reassures its contemporaries as to the torments of Hell: "To deny that there are sorrows and rewards after death is to deny the existence of God since God exists, it must be necessarily so. Influenced by Voltaire, Collin de Plancy initially did not believe in superstition. Infernal Dictionary, or, a Universal Library on the beings, characters, books, deeds, and causes which pertain to the manifestations and magic of trafficking with Hell divinations, occult sciences, grimoires, marvels, errors, prejudices, traditions, folktales, the various superstitions, and generally all manner of marvellous, surprising, mysterious, and supernatural beliefs. The cover page for the 1826 edition reads: This book attempts to provide an account of all the knowledge concerning superstitions and demonology.Īnecdotes of the nineteenth century or stories, recent anecdotes, features and little known words, singular adventures, various quotations, compilations and curious pieces, to be used for the history of the customs and the mind of the century in which we live, compared with centuries past. Dictionnaire Infernal was first published in 1818 and then divided into two volumes, with six reprints-and many changes-between 18.
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