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One of the most noted witch-finders in the Bilâspur District of the Central Provinces had two most effectual means of checkmating the witches
Read record →Several persons, natives of the Khasiya Hills, were convicted of beating to death a man whom they believed to be a wizard
Read record →If a man repeats it forwards, he will become invisible to his neighbour; but if he repeats it backwards, he will assume whatever shape he desires." [760] The use of this charm enables the witch to take the liver out of a living child and eat it
Read record →In Bastar, if a man is adjudged guilty of witchcraft, he is beaten by the crowd, his hair is shaved, the hair being supposed to constitute his power of mischief, his front teeth are knocked out, in order, it is said, to prevent him from muttering incantations,
Read record →A terrible raid was made on these unfortunate people when British authority was relaxed during the Mutiny, and most atrocious murders were committed
Read record →He quotes a case in 1802, in which several of the witnesses declared that they remembered numerous instances of persons being put to death for sorcery; one of them, in particular, proved that her mother had been tried and executed as a witch
Read record →One favourite way of counteracting the spells of a witch is to draw blood from her
Read record →Marco Polo makes the same assertion about Pachai in Badakhshân
Read record →In Gorakhpur, he says, the Tonahis or witches were very numerous, "but some Judge sent an order that no one should presume to injure another by enchantment
Read record →At the present day the half-deified witch most dreaded in the Eastern Districts of the North-Western Provinces is Lonâ, or Nonâ, a Chamârin, or woman of the currier caste
Read record →The Palwâr Râjputs of Oudh have a witch ancestress
Read record →The history of witchcraft in India, as in Europe, is one of the saddest pages in the annals of the people
Read record →In Northern India there are certain days on which ploughing is forbidden, such as the Nâgpanchamî or snake feast held on the fifth of the light half of Sâwan, and the fifteenth of the month Kârttik
Read record →General Sleeman gives a case of a cowherd who saw in a vision that the water of the Biyâs river should be taken up in pitchers and conveyed to the fields attacked with blight, but that none of it should be allowed to fall on the ground in the way
Read record →upon a narrow knife-edge between two awful eternities, and that, here and now, they have to finish with make-beliefs, and with real earnestness and courage face those truths which have always been palpable where indolence, or cowardice, or vested interests hav
Read record →The first is that in the Bible, which is the foundation of our present religious thought, we have bound together the living and the dead, and the dead has tainted the living
Read record →On the one hand, you had a material, earth-bound spirit of a low order of development which needed a physical medium in order to be able to indicate its presence
Read record →Crookes' letters upon the subject are still extant
Read record →As to his powers, they seem to have included every form of mediumship in the highest degree--self-levitation, as witnessed by hundreds of credible witnesses; the handling of fire, with the power of conferring like immunity upon others; the movement without hum
Read record →The facts of his life are, in my judgment, ample proof of the truth of the Spiritualist position, if no other proof at all had been available
Read record →There is a sympathetic preface by the husband
Read record →In the case of the direct voice one of the leading exponents is Mrs
Read record →I have seen father, mother, and dead soldier son, all taken together with the dead son looking far the happier and not the least substantial of the three
Read record →I have spoken of the need for careful and cool-headed analysis in judging the evidence where automatic writing is concerned
Read record →He tells of an American doctor of his acquaintance, and he vouches personally for the truth of the incident
Read record →What it is, is a difficult question, and yet when science and imagination unite, as Tyndall said they should unite, to throw a searchlight into the unknown, they may produce a beam sufficient to outline vaguely what will become clearer with the future advance
Read record →It had already been shown by the astronomers that the sensitized plate is a more delicate recording instrument than the human retina, and that it can show stars upon a long exposure which the eye has never seen
Read record →To the ordinary man it is invisible
Read record →Very many accounts have come back to us, verbal and written, detailing the experiences of those who have passed on
Read record →In my own case, this medium mentioned correctly the first name of a lady who had died in our house, gave several very characteristic messages from her, described the only two dogs which we have ever kept, and ended by saying that a young officer was holding up
Read record →cations, I have in a previous paper pointed to the "Gate of Remembrance" case, but there is a great mass of material which proves that, in spite of mistakes and failures, there really is a channel of communication, fitful and evasive sometimes, but entirely be
Read record →It is a plausible argument, and yet when we receive a telegram from a brother in Australia we do not say: "It is strange that Tom should not communicate with me direct, but that the presence of that half-educated fellow in the telegraph office should be necess
Read record →e least like "Sludge," a poem which Browning might be excused for writing in some crisis of domestic disagreement, but which it was inexcusable to republish since it is admitted to be a concoction, and the exposure described to have been imaginary
Read record →It has been stated in a previous book by the author, but it will bear repetition, that the use of the seance should, in his opinion, be carefully regulated as well as reverently conducted
Read record →These creatures are in truth our own backward brothers, bound for the same ultimate destination as ourselves, but retarded by causes for which our earth conditions may have been partly responsible
Read record →The revelation abolishes the idea of a grotesque hell and of a fantastic heaven, while it substitutes the conception of a gradual rise in the scale of existence without any monstrous change which would turn us in an instant from man to angel or devil
Read record →When we view sin in the light of modern science, with the tenderness of the modern conscience and with a sense of justice and proportion, it ceases to be that monstrous cloud which darkened the whole vision of the mediaeval theologian
Read record →In the most material and pronounced classes of these are the ghosts who impinge very closely upon matter and have been seen so often by those who have no strong psychic sense
Read record →Such, in very condensed form, is the world which is revealed to us by these wonderful messages from the beyond
Read record →So, too, with the automatic script of Mr
Read record →There is first "the word of wisdom," "the word of knowledge" and "faith." All these taken in connection with the Spirit would seem to mean the higher communications from the other side
Read record →believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God," show very clearly that spirit communion was a familiar idea, and also that they were plagued, as we are, by the intrusion of unwelcome spiritual elements in their intercourse
Read record →rs of any circle who are contributing psychic power; that the transfiguring of the face and the shining raiment are known phenomena; above all, that the erection of three altars is meaningless, but that the alternate reading, the erection of three booths or ca
Read record →This he did a second time upon a second catch-question being addressed to Him
Read record →It is at least possible, though I admit that under modern conditions it has not been clearly proved, that a medium of great power can charge another with his own force, just as a magnet when rubbed upon a piece of inert steel can turn it also into a magnet
Read record →This makes it very clear that this particular Gospel, in its present form, was written after that event, and that the writer fitted into it at least one other incident which had struck his imagination
Read record →Some of the faces are but partially formed, which gives them a grotesque or repellant appearance
Read record →It is not possible to define exactly what occurs in the case of the ectoplasm, nor, on account of its vital connection with the medium and its evanescent nature, has it been separated and subjected to even the roughest chemical analysis which might show whethe
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