They flew: a history of the impossible

Introduction: huge claims, vague proof

Part one. Aloft

1. Hovering, flying, and all that: a brief history of levitation

2. Saint Teresa of Avila, reluctant aethrobat

3. Saint Joseph of Cupertino, shrieking aerial ecstatic

4. Making sense of the flying friar

Part two. Here. . .and here too

5. Transvection, teleportation, and all that: a brief history of bilocation

6. María de Ágreda, avatar of the impossible

7. The trouble with María

Part three. Malevolent

8. Tricksters of the impossible

9. Protestants, deviltry, and the impossible

10. The devil himself

Epilogue: vague logic, leaps of faith

Appendix 1: Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century bilocators in America and Europe

Appendix 2: The emergence of the "lady in blue" legend: a chronology.