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Pickett, Thomas J. 1996. “Can Contamination Save the Shroud of Turin?” Skeptical Briefs 6, no. 2 (June): 3.
Shafersman, Steven D. 1982. “Science, the Public, and the Shroud of Turin.” Skeptical Inquirer 6, no. 3 (Spring).
Van Biema, David. 1998. “Science and the Shroud.” Time, April 20, pp. 53–61.
Whanger, Mary, and Alan Whanger. 1998. The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure of Discovery. Franklin, TN: Providence House.
Wilcox, Robert K. 1977. Shroud. New York: Macmillan.
Wilson, Ian. 1979. The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ? Rev. ed. Garden City, New York: Image Books.
———. 1998. The Blood and the Shroud. New York: Free Press.
Chapter 19. Artistry and the Shroud
Chevalier, Ulysse. 1900. Etude Critique sur l'Origine du Saint Suaire de Lirey-Chambéry-Turin. Paris: A. Picard.
Damon, P. E., et al. 1989. “Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin.” Nature 337: 611–15.
Davidson, J. Leroy, and Phillipa Gerry, eds. 1939. The New Standard Encyclopedia of Art. New York: Garden City, pp. 226–27.
Janson, H. W. 1963. History of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, pp. 267, 286.
McCrone, Walter. 1996. Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin. Chicago: Microscope.
Nickell, Joe. 1998. Inquest on the Shroud of Turin. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Polidoro, Massimo. 2010. “The Shroud of Turin Duplicated.” Skeptical Inquirer 34, no. 1 (January/February): 18.
Chapter 20. Oviedo's Holy Sudarium
Anderson, Mary Jo. “Scientists: Relic Authenticates Shroud of Turin.” World Net Daily. http://www.wnd.com/2000/10/4279/ (accessed February 14, 2013).
Guscin, Mark. 1998. The Oviedo Cloth. Cambridge, UK: Lutterworth Press.
Humber, Thomas. 1978. The Sacred Shroud. New York: Pocket Books.
McCrone, Walter C. 1993. Letters to Joe Nickell, June 11 and 30.
———. 1996. Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin. Chicago: Microscope.
Nickell, Joe. 1998. Inquest on the Shroud of Turin. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 2001. “Scandals and Follies of the ‘Holy Shroud.’” Skeptical Inquirer 25, no. 5 (September/October): 17–20.
———. 2007. Relics of the Christ. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Whanger, Mary, and Alan Whanger. 1998. The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure of Discovery. Franklin, TN: Providence House.
Wilson, Ian. 1979. The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ? Rev. ed. Garden City, New York: Image Books.
———. 1998. The Blood and the Shroud. New York: Free Press.
Chapter 21. Miraculous Relics
Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. 1996. Holy Blood, Holy Grail. London: Arrow.
Barber, Richard. 2004. The Holy Grail. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bernstein, Amy D. 2004. “Decoding the Da Vinci Phenomenon.” In Secrets of the Da Vinci Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel. 2004. N.p.: U.S. News & World Report, pp. 7–15.
Brown, Dan. 2004. The Da Vinci Code. New York: Doubleday.
Calvin, John. 1543. Traité des Reliques, reprinted in Jean Calvin, Three French Treatises, edited by Francis M. Higman. London: Athlone, 1970, pp. 47–97.
“Christian Relics.” 2004. ReligionFacts. http://www.religionfacts.com/Christianity/things/relics.htm (accessed February 28, 2005).
Coulson, John, ed. 1958. The Saints: A Concise Biographical Dictionary. New York: Hawthorn.
Cruz, Joan Carroll. 1984. Relics. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor.
Frazier, Kendrick. 2005. “In the Land of Galileo, Fifth World's Skeptics Congress Solves Mysteries, Champions Scientific Outlook.” Skeptical Inquirer 29, no. 1 (January/February): 5–9.
Garlaschelli, Luigi, et al. 1991. Letter published in Nature 353 (October 10): 507.
———. 2004. Personal communications, October 15–16; typescript, “Miraculous Italian Blood Relics,” n. d.
Jepson, Tim. 2001. National Geographic Traveler: Italy. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
Lowenthal, David. 1998. “Fabricating Heritage.” History & Memory 10, no. 1 (Spring). http://iupjournals.org.history/ham10-1.html (accessed March 7, 2005).
McCrone, Walter. 1996. Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin. Chicago: Microscope.
Nickell, Joe. 1993. Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions, and Healing Cures. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 1998. Inquest on the Shroud of Turin. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Nickell, Joe, and John F. Fischer. 1992. Mysterious Realms. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 145–64.
Olson, Carl E., and Sandra Miesel. 2004. The Da Vinci Hoax. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
Pick, Christopher, ed. 1979. Mysteries of the World. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books.
Picknett, Lynn, and Clive Prince. 1998. The Templar Revelation. New York: Touchstone.
Polidoro, Massimo. 2004. “What a Bloody Miracle!” Skeptical Inquirer 28, no. 1 (January/February): 18–20.
“Relics.” 1967. New Catholic Encyclopedia.
“Relics.” 1973. Encyclopedia Britannica.
Secrets of the Da Vinci Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel. 2004. N.p.: U.S. News & World Report.
Chapter 22. In Search of the Emerald Grail
Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. 1996. Holy Blood, Holy Grail. London: Arrow.
Barber, Richard. 2004. The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Brown, Dan. 2003. The Da Vinci Code. New York: Doubleday.
Calvin, John. 1543. Treatise on Relics. Translated by Count Valerian Kasinski, 1854. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: John Stone, Hunter, 1870, pp. 217–18; reprinted, with an introduction by Joe Nickell. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2009.
Cox, Simon. 2004. Cracking the Da Vinci Code. New York: Barnes and Noble.
Encyclopedia Britannica. 11th ed. 1910. New York: Encyclopedia Britannica.
“‘Holy Grail’ Shattered.” 1914. New York Times, April 18.
Kunz, George Frederick. 1971. Reprint of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones. New York: Dover, 1913.
Lottero, Fabio. 2010. “The Dish of the Last Supper.” CICAP, available online (in Italian) at http://www.cicap.org/new/articolo.php?id=102013 (accessed January 26, 2010).
Marica, Patrizia. 2007. Museo del Tesoro. Genoa, Italy: Sagep Editori Sri.
“Museum of the Treasury of the Cathedral of St. Lawrence of Genoa.” N.d. Museum handout in English. Copy obtained by author, October 31, 2009.
Nickell, Joe. 2007. Relics of the Christ. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. (Additional sources given in this source.)
Chapter 23. St. James's Miraculous Relics
Attwater, Donald. 1983. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. London: Penguin, p. 179.
Baker, Robert A., and Joe Nickell. 1992. Missing Pieces: How to Investigate Ghosts, UFOs, Psychics, and Other Mysteries. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 221–26.
Blackmore, Susan. 1991. “Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep?” Skeptical Inquirer 15, no. 4 (Summer): 362–70.
Cavendish, Richard, ed. 1989. Legends of the World. New York: Crescent Books, p. 251.
Coulson, John, ed. 1958. The Saints: A Concise Biographical Dictionary. New York: Hawthorne Books, p. 237.
El Camino de Santiago. 1990. Travel booklet. N. p., Spain: Ministerio de Transportes, Turismo y Comunicaciones.
Gies, Joseph, and Frances Gies. 1969. Life in a Medieval City. New York: Harper Colophon Books, p. 128.
Gitlitz, David M., and Linda Kay Davidson. 2000. The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. 1991. Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience. New York: HarperCollins, s.v. “Karma,” “Leys.”
Hauck, Dennis William. 2000. The International Directory of Haunted Places. New York: Pengu
in Books, pp. 133–34.
Howatson, M. C., ed. 1989. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 582–83.
Jones, Alison. 1994. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Saints. Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Reference, p. 144.
Kennedy, Richard. 1984. The Dictionary of Beliefs. London: Ward Lock Educational, p. 93.
Kurtz, Paul. 1991. The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 23–26.
MacLaine, Shirley. 2000. The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit. New York: Pocket Books.
McBirnie, William Steuart. 1973. The Search for the Twelve Apostles. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, pp. 87–107.
Neville, Anne. 2000. “Walking a Mile in the Pilgrim's Shoes.” Review of MacLaine's The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit. Buffalo News, July 5.
Nickell, Joe. 1998. Looking for a Miracle. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 19–29, 73–77.
———. 2000. “Haunted Inns: Tales of Spectral Guests.” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 5 (September/October): 17–21.
Nooteboom, Gees. 1997. Roads to Santiago: A Modern-Day Pilgrimage through Spain. New York: Harcourt.
Oxford Latin Dictionary. 1969. Oxford: Clarendon.
Pick, Christopher, ed. 1929. Mysteries of the World. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, pp. 101–102.
“Santiago de Compostela.” 1960. Encyclopedia Britannica.
Wilson, Sheryl C., and T. X. Barber. 1983. “The Fantasy-Prone Personality: Implications for Understanding Imagery, Hypnosis, and Parapsychological Phenomena.” In Imagery: Current Theory, Research and Application, edited by Anees A. Sheikh. New York: Wiley, pp. 340–90.
Woodward, Kenneth L. 1990. Making Saints. New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 63.
Chapter 24. “Incorruptible Corpses”
Cruz, Joan Carroll. 1977. The Incorruptibles. Rockford, IL: Tan.
Geberth, Vernon J. 1993. Practical Homicide Investigation. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Gonzales, Thomas A., et al. 1954. Legal Medicine. 2nd ed. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
MacDougall, Curtis D. 1958. Hoaxes. New York: Dover.
Nickell, Joe. 1993. Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions, and Healing Cures. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 1994. “Historical Sketches: Petrified Girl.” Licking Valley Courier, November 3. (Except as otherwise noted, information on this case is taken from this source, which provides much more detailed documentation.)
———. 2011. Tracking the Man-Beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies, and More. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Spitz, Werner U., ed. 1993. Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death. 3rd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
Stein, Gordon. 1993. Encyclopedia of Hoaxes. Detroit: Gale Research.
Ubelaker, Douglas, and Henry Scammell. 1992. Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook. New York: HarperCollins.
Wilson, Colin, and Damon Wilson. 1992. Unsolved Mysteries Past and Present. Chicago: Contemporary, pp. 368–400.
Chapter 25. Jesus’ Healings
Allegro, John M. 1970. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Paperjacks.
Asimov, Isaac. 1968. Asimov's Guide to the Bible. Vol. 1, The Old Testament. New York: Avon.
Baker, Robert A. 1990. They Call It Hypnosis. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1901. Books on Egypt and Chaldea. Vol. 2, Egyptian Magic. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.
Carroll, Davod. 1975. The Magic Makers: Magic and Sorcery through the Ages. Scarborough, ON: New American Library of Canada.
Craveri, Marcello. 1970. The Life of Jesus. New York: Grove Press.
Dummelow, Rev. J. R., ed. 1951. A Commentary on the Holy Bible. New York: Macmillan.
Enslin, Morton Scott. 1968. The Prophet from Nazareth. New York: Schocken Books.
Graham, Lloyd M. 1975. Deceptions and Myths of the Bible. Secaucus, NJ: University Books.
Hines, Terence. 1988. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Larue, Gerald. 1990. The Supernatural Occult and the Bible. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Randi, James. 1987. The Faith Healers. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Spraggett, Allen. 1970. Kathryn Kuhlman: The Woman Who Believed in Miracles. New York: Signet.
United Church. 1967. Sickness and Health. Report by Canada's largest Protestant group. Cited in Spraggett 1970, pp. 64–65.
Chapter 26. Lourdes and Other Healing Waters
“Fountain of Youth.” 2005a. Web Gallery of Art. http://www.wga.hu/html/c/cranach/lucas_e/8/0fountain.html (accessed July 1, 2005).
“Fountain of Youth.” 2005b. Available at http://www.fountainofyouth.com (accessed July 7, 2005).
“Fountain of Youth.” 2005c. http://tfn.net/Springs/FountainofYouth.html/c/cranach/(accessed July 1, 2005).
Gonzalez, David. 1992. “At Lourdes of Bronx, Where Cooling Hope Flows.” New York Times, May 27.
Jones, Alison. 1994. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Saints. Ware, UK: Wordsworth Editions.
Morris, Linda. 2004. “Priest Offers $5,000 to Disprove Miracles of Lourdes.” Sydney Morning Herald, August 30.
Nickell, Joe. 1998. Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions, and Healing Cures. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Ponce de León, Juan. 2005. Available at http://library.thinkingquest.org/J0002678F/ponce_de_leon.htm (accessed July 1, 2005).
Swanner, Grace Maguire. 1988. Saratoga: Queen of Spas. Utica, NY: North Country Books.
“Who Wants to Live Forever?” 2000. Economist, December 23, pp. 23–24.
Chapter 27. The Belgian Lourdes
Delcour, Adrien. 1987. “A Great ‘Lourdes Miracle’: The Cure of Pierre de Rudder or, What Is the Value of Testimony?” A paper by Delcour, of Brussels, Belgium. Translated by Jan Willem Nienhuys.
De Meester, Canon A. 1957. “Report of the Holy See of Bruges.” Cited in Delcour 1987.
Nieman, Carol. 1995. Miracles: The Extraordinary, the Impossible, and the Divine. New York: Viking Studio Books.
Nickell, Joe. 2007. Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Notre Dame de Lourdes a Oostakker. 1975. Souvenir booklet in French (“Imprimature Gradae, 7–4–1975, O. Schelfhout, vic. Gen.”), distributed at the shrine.
Chapter 28. Miracle Dirt of Chimayó
Del Monte, Steven. 2000. Personal communication, October 20.
Eckholm, Eric. 2008. “A Pastor Begs to Differ with Flock on Miracles.” New York Times, February 20.
El Santuariò…a Stop on the High Road to Taos. 1994. Silver Spring, MD: Sons of the Holy Family.
Hamm, Elizabeth Catanach. 2006. “It's a Miracle: Hope, Faith Bond at El Santuario de Chimayó.” New Mexico (March), pp. 40–45.
Harrington, John Peabody. 1916. Cited in Kay 1987, p. 14.
Hines, Terence. 1988. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
“Holy Dirt of Chimayó.” 2011. The Miracle Detectives. Aired April 10.
Kay, Elizabeth. 1987. Chimayó Valley Traditions. Santa Fe, NM: Ancient City Press.
Kutz, Jack. 1988. Mysteries and Miracles of New Mexico. Corrales, NM: Rhombus.
Nealson, Christina. 2001. New Mexico's Sanctuaries, Retreats, and Sacred Places. Englewood, CO: Westcliffe, pp. 61–63.
Nickell, Joe. 1988. Secrets of the Supernatural. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 103–17.
———. 2004. The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, pp. 51–55.
———. 2007. Relics of the Christ. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
———. 2008. “Lourdes Medical Bureau Rebels. Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell (blog). http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/lourdes_medical_bureau_rebels/ (accessed February 15, 2013).
Russell, Inez. 2004. “Saving El Santuario: Preserva
tion Process Almost a Miracle.” New Mexico (December): 36–41.
Chapter 29. Peter Popoff's “Gift of Knowledge”
Alexander, David. 1987. “Peter Popoff's Broken Window.” Free Inquiry 7, no. 4 (Fall): 47–49.
Asimov, Isaac. 1969. Asimov's Guide to the Bible. Vol. 2, The New Testament. New York: Avon Books, pp. 337–39.
Basil, Robert. 1987. “James Randi and The Faith Healers.” Free Inquiry 7, no. 4 (Fall): 49.
“Benny Hinn” 2002. Biblical Discernment Ministries. http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hinn/general.htm (accessed February 15, 2012).
Garrison, Greg. 1991. “Unmasking Fake Miracles.” Birmingham News, January 11.
Hines, Terence. 1988. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Kazenske, Donna. 2003. “Spiritual Gifts: The Gift of the Word of Knowledge.” Christian Online Magazine. Available at http://sites.silaspartners.com/cc/CDA/Content_Blocks/CC_Printer_Friendly_Version_Utility/1„PTID42281_CHID147904_CIID933680,00.html (accessed February 15, 2013).
Nickell, Joe. 1993. Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions, and Healing Cures. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
———. 2002. “Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?” Skeptical Inquirer 26, no. 3 (May/June): 14–17.
Popoff, Peter. 2001. Letter to Joe Nickell, July 26. (Previously published in Adventures in Paranormal Investigation, by Joe Nickell [© 2007 the University of Kentucky Press].)
———. 2002a. Letter to Joe Nickell, n. d. (before June 2).
———. 2002b. Toronto “Miracle Crusade” (live).
———. 2002c. Paid program, BET. November 11.
———. 2003. Paid program, Court TV. April 10.
Randi, James. 1987. The Faith Healers. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Stein, Gordon. 1993. Encyclopedia of Hoaxes. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, pp. 219–20.
Steiner, Robert A. 1986. “Exposing the Faith-Healers.” Skeptical Inquirer 11, no. 1 (Fall): 28–31.
———. 1989. Don't Get Taken! El Cerrito, CA: Wide-Awake Books, pp. 124–26.
Chapter 30. Benny Hinn's Miracle Crusades
Baker, Robert A. 1990. They Call It Hypnosis. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
“Benny Hinn” 2002. Biblical Discernment Ministries. http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hinn/general.htm (accessed February 15, 2012).
