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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| On Monsters and Marvels | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Causes of Monsters | |
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| An Example of the Glory of God | |
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| An Example of the Wrath of God | |
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| An Example of Too Great a Quantity of Seed | |
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| On Women Who Carry Several Children during One Pregnancy | |
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| On Hermaphrodites or Androgynes | |
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| Memorable Stories about Women Who Have Degenerated into Men | |
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| An Example of Lack in the Quantity of Seed | |
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| An Example of Monsters That Are Created through the Imagination | |
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| An Example of the Narrowness or the Smallness of the Womb | |
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| 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 Pregnant | |
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| An Example of Monsters Who Are Created, the Mother Having Received Some Blow or Fall, Being Great with Child | |
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| An Example of Monsters That Are Created by Hereditary Diseases | |
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| An Example of Monstrous Things Which Have Occurred in Accidental Illnesses | |
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| Of Stones That Are Engendered in the Human Body | |
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| On Certain Monstrous Animals That Are Born Abnormally in the Bodies of Men, Women, and Small Children | |
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| On Certain Strange Things That Nature Repels through Her Infinite Providence | |
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| An Example of Several Other Strange Things | |
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| An Example of Monsters Created through Corruption and Putrefaction | |
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| An Example of the Mixture or Mingling of Seed | |
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| An Example of the Artifice of Wicked Spital Beggars | |
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| The Imposture of a Woman Beggar Who Pretended to Have a Canker on Her Breast | |
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| The Imposture of a Certain Beggar Who Was Counterfeiting a Leper | |
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| 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 | |
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| About a Fat Wench from Normandy, Who Pretended to Have a Snake in Her Belly | |
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| An Example of Monstrous Things Done by Demons and Sorcerers | |
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| About Those Who Are Possessed of Demons, Who Speak in Various Parts of Their Bodies | |
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| How Demons Inhabit Quarries or Mines | |
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| How Demons Can Deceive Us | |
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| An Example of Several Diabolical Illusions | |
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| On the Art of Magic | |
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| On Certain Strange Illnesses | |
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| On Incubi and Succubi According to Physicians | |
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| On "Point-Knotters" Other Stories Not off the Subject | |
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| Concerning Marine Monsters | |
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| On Flying Monsters | |
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| On Terrestrial Monsters | |
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| On Celestial Monsters | |
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| [On Natural Disasters] | |
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| Items from the Discourse on the Unicorn | |
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| From The Book of Tumors | |
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| From The Sicke Womans Private Looking-Glasse | |
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| Suggested Identifications | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |