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'Raps, noises, and movements of various kinds,' he had indeed witnessed, and he heard wondrous tales from truthful people, 'but I have never been able to see anything worthy of consideration, as not being accounted for by unconscious action, delusion, or impos
Read record →Now, if we set aside, for the present, ecclesiastical miracles, and judicial witchcraft, and fix our attention on such minor and useless marvels as clairvoyance, 'ghosts,' unexplained noises, unexplained movements of objects, one doubts whether the general opi
Read record →Say we are Protestants, and sceptical, like Reginald Scot (1584), or Whigs, like De Foe, we then exclaim with Scot, in his Discovery of Witchcraft (1584), that minor miracles, moving tables, have gone out with benighted Popery, as De Foe also boasts in his His
Read record →It is a noteworthy circumstance that (setting apart Church miracles, and the epidemic of witchcraft which broke out simultaneously with the new learning of the Renaissance, and was fostered by the enlightened Protestantism of the Reformers, the Puritans, and t
Read record →In the Middle Ages--the 'dark ages'-- modern opinion would expect to find an inordinate quantity of ghostly material
Read record →The more part of mediaeval witchcraft, therefore, is not quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus
Read record →Then, for want of better materials, the unhappy, tortured witches dragged into their confessions all the folklore which they knew
Read record →The subject somewhat neglected by Anthropologists
Read record →For example, such occurrences as 'rappings,' as the movement of untouched objects, as the lights of the seance room, are all easily feigned
Read record →Thus, either the rite of binding the sorcerer was invented, for no obvious reason, in a given place, and thence reached the Australian blacks, the Eskimo, the Dene Hareskins, the Davenport Brothers, and the Neoplatonists; or it was independently evolved in eac
Read record →Meanwhile, one phenomenon, which is usually said to accompany others much more startling, may now be held to have won acceptance from science
Read record →In the lodge, the patient confesses his sins to his doctor, and when that ghostly friend has heard all, he sings and plays the tambour, invoking the spirit to descend on the sick man
Read record →We may next examine cases in which, the savage medium being entranced, spirits come to him and answer questions
Read record →A very picturesque description of a Maori seance is given in Old New Zealand
Read record →In yet another case, the Maoris were anxious for the spirits to bring back a European ship, on which a girl had fled with the captain
Read record →The 'lodge' answers to what spiritualists call 'the cabinet,' usually a place curtained off in modern practice
Read record →In the Relations de la Nouvelle France (1634), Lejeune discusses the sorcerers, who, as rival priests, gave him great trouble
Read record →The savage with the long name was a Christian catechumen, and yet he stood to it that he had seen a sorcerer disappear before his very eyes, like the second-sighted Highlander in Kirk's Secret Commonwealth (1691)
Read record →The bench was believed, by the credulous Mongols, to carry the Lama!
Read record →As to clairvoyance among savages, the subject is comparatively familiar
Read record →On the Coppermine River the medicine-man, according to Hearne, prophesies of travellers, like the Highland second-sighted man, ere they appear
Read record →But we need the evidence both of anthropologists and of adepts in conjuring
Read record →In the Revue des Deux Mondes, for 1856, tome i., M
Read record →So he concluded his essay in the pooh-pooh tone of voice
Read record →Even readers who had confined their attention to the central masterpieces of Greek literature recognised some of the revived 'phenomena'
Read record →The mysteries of the East had invaded Hellas
Read record →The new marvels were certainly not stimulated by literary knowledge of the ancient thaumaturgy
Read record →How is the inquirer, how was Porphyry to know that the assertion is correct, that it is not the mere 'boasting' of some vulgar spirit?
Read record →Meantime Homer, and Theocritus in familiar passages, attest this belief in light attendant on the coming of the divine, while the Norse Sagas, and the well-known tale of Sir Charles Lee's daughter and the ghost of her mother (1662), speak for the same belief i
Read record →Replying as to divination, Iamblichus says that the right kind of dreams are between sleeping and waking when we hear a voice giving directions
Read record →Iamblichus believed in dreams of this kind, and in voices heard by men wide awake, as in the case of Joan of Arc
Read record →Here is a 'constraint put on a god' as Porphyry complains
Read record →There were other analogies between modern, ancient, and savage spiritualism
Read record →Gods and spirits are said to cause them, but they are only attained in the presence of certain exceptional persons, mediums, saints, priests, conjurers
Read record →Once more, if we admit the theory of intentional imposture by saints, angakut, Zulu medicine-men, mediums, and the rest, we must grant that a trick which takes in a professional conjurer, like Mr
Read record →In early middle age, about 1874, Mr
Read record →As to the facts, it is equally difficult to believe in them, and to believe that Mr
Read record →Experimental Proof of Spiritual Existence
Read record →Among the fruits of Puritanism, and of that frenzied state of mind which accompanied the Civil War, was a furious persecution of 'witches'
Read record →By a lucky accident, fragments of the conversation may be collected from Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus, {88a} and from the correspondence of Glanvill, Henry More, and Robert Boyle
Read record →Alfred Wallace, F.R.S., adduces Lord Orrery and Mr
Read record →uce the testimony of modern Australian blacks, of Greek philosophers, of Peruvians just after the conquest by Pizarro, of the authors of Lives of the Saints, of learned New England divines, of living observers in England, India, and America
Read record →Greatrakes did not entertain Lady Conway and her friends with this marvel alone
Read record →He had investigated the case of the disturbances in Mr
Read record →Lady Conway was not behind her guests in personal experiences
Read record →The scope of the Ragley inquiries may now be understood
Read record →Taking levitation, haunting, disturbances and apparitions, and leaving 'telepathy' or second sight out of the list for the present, he who compares psychical research in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries finds himself confronted by the problem which eve
Read record →Now, some features in witchcraft admit of this explanation
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