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Mr Sikes gives a very graphic description of the appearance of this apparition to a peasant farmer near Cardiff, a little over forty years ago
Read record →Another well-known Welsh haunting that may be relegated to the same class of phenomena as the corpse candles is that of the Stradling Ghost
Read record →It was night; without the house everything was still and calm; within the aged watcher was seated close beside the sick man's bed, the head of which had been placed near the window, so that the sufferer could, in the daylight, steal a glimpse at the fields and
Read record →At this, the old watcher, who was now getting nervous, arose and went into the next room, and asked those assembled there if they had heard anything
Read record →His speech was of very short duration, but it was hardly over, before a loud rapping of high-heeled shoes sounded on the stone steps, and a number of women, dressed in every conceivable fashion, from the quaintly picturesque costume of the Middle Ages to the s
Read record →I did not know, for instance, that once, when my youngest sister, who was a little older than I, was passing along that passage I so much dreaded, she heard, close beside her, a short, sharp laugh, or chuckle, and so expressive of hatred and derision, that the
Read record →I had gone to bed early, and had been sleeping for some time, when I was awakened about two o'clock by a loud noise, for which I could not account, and which reverberated in my ears for fully half a minute
Read record →There, looking over the rails at the top of the stairway, was an object so horrible that I shudder when I think of it even now
Read record →In 1840 I became acquainted with Dr
Read record →Near the close of the seance, the lady who sat next the cabinet said there was a form present who gave the name of "Maggie Brackett." She would not be certain about the first name, as the form was very weak and spoke in a whisper
Read record →If I was disappointed in the first form, I was doubly so in this
Read record →What claimed to be my niece came to me in a very beautiful illuminated dress
Read record →At a Thursday afternoon seance, held last spring, she came out very lively; and after a cordial greeting I said, "You are feeling strong to-day; can you not do something to interest us?" She hesitated a moment; then leading me into the middle of the room, look
Read record →Fay's seance with some friends from New Bedford and Cincinnati
Read record →6, 1885, previous to the seance, Mrs
Read record →She returned to the cabinet, and many forms came out and were recognized
Read record →Fay stepped behind the curtain, Auntie came out, fully materialized, greeting me cordially, shaking hands with me, and expressing pleasure at meeting me; then, in a clear and forcible manner, discussed the question of the proposed seance, going freely into det
Read record →but it is not easy to understand how any intelligent investigator, who has given the subject any considerable attention, should come to the conclusion that the forms are automatons, and that our friends from the other side never take possession, or control the
Read record →er, tongued and grooved, nailed, screwed, and glued together in such a way as to render it impossible to remove the boards, or for a confederate to enter it except through the door in the audience-room, in the presence of the visitors
Read record →While thus situated, conversing freely with the medium and little Maud (who was evidently pleased to have me there), a spirit materialized and went out among the audience
Read record →"What we have already written in reference to Cadaleene and her control of the medium, is equally applicable to this seance; also the expressions of confidence in reference to the cabinet
Read record →Brewer, I attended a private seance with Mrs
Read record →As I examined the walls and everything connected with the temporary cabinet, I have no hesitation in saying that the forms that came from or appeared in it were materialized beings
Read record →As she laid her face to mine, she said in the most earnest yet tender tones, "You did not think I would come." This was true; tired with my journey and the sultry heat, I was indifferent to taking an active part in the seance
Read record →In looking over my notes, my attention is strongly drawn to the many remarkable things I have witnessed at the Berry Sisters'
Read record →I will state, however, for the benefit of those who have any doubt about this arrangement, that the seat I occupied commanded a full view of this door, and that I unlocked it after the seance, and can state positively that it was impossible for the door to hav
Read record →Fay's seance, where I first saw her, she showed, on meeting you, that spiritual illumination in the face which joy and gladness give to us when we meet those we love, after an absence
Read record →"When at Miss Helen Berry's seance, a few days later, I had the assurance made doubly sure that she was not a being of earth, by seeing, about three feet from the cabinet, a small, white, cloud-like substance expand until it was four or five feet high, when su
Read record →I have seen hundreds and thousands of materialized forms; have seen, in a few instances, personation, where the medium was taken possession of, brought out, and controlled as in trance-mediumship; I have seen what appeared to be the double of the medium, so th
Read record →arments used to clothe the forms are materialized and dematerialized in the cabinet, any sudden disturbance of the magnetic conditions of the circle might arrest the process of dematerialization, leaving the draperies intact
Read record →Again, there are often from fifty to sixty distinct individual forms appearing at each seance, requiring as many confederates to represent them
Read record →Considering the state of feeling with which many persons enter the seance-room, it is not singular that they are sometimes treated to what seems to be deception
Read record →At every seance there are more or less clandestine visitors, who shrink from letting their best friends know anything about it
Read record →I have been taken into the cabinet by one of these forms, and, with my left arm around the form (to all appearance as solid as my own), have put my right hand on the entranced medium, and while in this position have seen a white, luminous cloud rise slowly fro
Read record →While they exhibit no feelings of selfishness or jealousy in their associations with us, the same cannot always be said of "the control." For some reason which we do not understand, but which may be a necessity, the controlling spirit of the seance exercises a
Read record →Method of Presentation--The Logical Verdict--Trustworthiness of Legends--The Fairy-Faith held by the highly educated Celt as well as by the Celtic Peasant--The Evidence is complete and adequate--Its Analysis--The Fairy Tribes dealt with-- Witnesses and their T
Read record →The God Arthur and the Hero Arthur--Sevenfold Evidence to show Arthur as an Incarnate Fairy King--Lancelot the Foster-son of a Fairy Woman--Galahad, the Offspring of Lancelot and the Fairy Woman Elayne--Arthur as a Fairy King in Kulhwch and Olwen--Gwynn ab Nud
Read record →Inadequacy of Pygmy Theory--According to the Theories concerning Divine Images and Fetishes, Gods, Daemons, and Ancestral Spirits haunt Megaliths--Megaliths are religious and funereal, as shown chiefly by Cenn Cruaich, Stonehenge, Guernsey menhirs, Monuments i
Read record →The Extension of the Terms Fairy and Fairyland--The Real Man as an Invisible Force acting through a Body-Conductor-- A Psychical Organ essential for Memory--Pre-existence a Scientific Necessity--The Vitalistic View of Evolution--Old Theory of Heredity disprove
Read record →As the new manuscript of the 'Fairy-Faith' lies before me revised and finished, I realize even more fully than I did two years ago with respect to the original study, how little right I have to call it mine
Read record →There is probably no other place in Celtic lands more congenial, or more inspiring for the writing down of one's deeper intuitions about the Fairy-Faith, than Carnac, under the shadow of the pagan tumulus and mount of the sacred fire, now dedicated by triumpha
Read record →And there seems never to have been an uncivilized tribe, a race, or nation of civilized men who have not had some form of belief in an unseen world, peopled by unseen beings
Read record →By the Celtic Fairy-Faith we mean that specialized form of belief in a spiritual realm inhabited by spiritual beings which has existed from prehistoric times until now in Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, or other parts of the ancient
Read record →a year's preparatory work in things Celtic under the direction of the Oxford Professor of Celtic, Sir John Rhys, I began to travel in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany, and to collect material there at first hand from the people who have shaped and who st
Read record →The Naturalistic Theory shows accurately enough that natural phenomena and environment have given direction to the anthropomorphosing of gods, spirits, or fairies, but after explaining this external aspect of the Fairy-Faith it cannot logically go any further
Read record →The second theory may be called the Pygmy Theory, which Mr
Read record →Over against the champions of the Pygmy Theory may be set two of its opponents, Dr
Read record →The Druid Theory to account for fairies is less widespread
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