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A lady very well known to myself, and in literary society, lived as a girl with an antiquarian father in an old house dear to an antiquary
Read record →A man of letters was born in a small Scotch town, where his father was the intimate friend of a tradesman whom we shall call the grocer
Read record →This is a pretty tame case of haunting, as was conjectured, by an unhappy revenant, the returned spirit of the second Mrs
Read record →Shchapoff really belong to a peculiar species of haunted houses
Read record →No ghost story is more celebrated than that of Old Jeffrey, the spirit so named by Emily Wesley, which disturbed the Rectory at Epworth, chiefly in the December of 1716 and the spring of 1717
Read record →They laughed at her, but for the whole of December "the groans, squeaks, tinglings and knockings were frightful enough"
Read record →This is practically all the story of Old Jeffrey
Read record →The noises, and copious phenomena of moving objects apparently untouched, were attributed to the unholy powers of a wandering drummer, deprived by Mr
Read record →A physician, as we have seen, got the better of the demon in Mrs
Read record →In 1879 he was acting with a strolling company, and came to Amherst, in Nova Scotia
Read record →It was on the hill that Donald first met with the bocan, but he soon came to closer quarters, and haunted the house in a most annoying fashion
Read record →These are the most remarkable doings of the ghost at Garpsdal, according to the evidence of Sir Saemund, Magnus, Gudrun, and all the household at Garpsdal, all of whom will confirm their witness with an oath, and aver that no human being could have been so inv
Read record →Some time after this it was necessary to take down some of the fish, and the man who went up on the pile saw this strange thing, that up out of the pile there came a tail, in appearance like a singed ox-tail
Read record →le with the ring finger foremost over my face and down my nose, it was slipping into my mouth, and two finger-tips had entered, when I threw it off with my right hand, thinking it was uncanny, and not relishing it inside my body
Read record →t by marriage peering above and between the curtains, and at the same moment--whether unconsciously she threw forward her arms, or whether they were drawn forward, as it were, in a vortex of air, she cannot be sure--one of her thumbs was sensibly pressed betwe
Read record →{28} What is now called "mental telegraphy" or "telepathy" is quite an old idea
Read record →These are very liable to be vitiated by bad observation, collusion and other causes
Read record →Yet in all the histories of the war that I have seen, the only name given to the place is Ticonderoga
Read record →The neglect is not universal, and the historical aspect of these beliefs has been dealt with by Mr
Read record →Samuel Wesley's parsonage at Epworth, in 1716, is reported on evidence undeniably honest, and absolutely contemporary
Read record →He would add one obvious yet neglected truth
Read record →We have recently seen an instructive example
Read record →To take another ancient instance, in his Philopseudes Lucian introduces a kind of club of superstitious men, telling ghost stories
Read record →The problem is one which, in other matter, always haunts the student of man's development: he is accustomed to find similar myths, rites, customs, fairy tales, all over the world; of some he can trace the origin to early human imagination and reason, working o
Read record →The tendency of the anthropologist is to explain this fact by Survival and Revival
Read record →k Lane affair at Port Glasgow, in 1864, and in Paris, in 1846, we cannot expect men of science to act as amateur detectives
Read record →Carpenter says that, in 'table-talking,' 'cases have occasionally occurred in the experience of persons above suspicion of intentional deception, in which the answers given by the movements of tables were not only unknown to the questioners, but were even cont
Read record →Let us see how this theory works out in practice
Read record →The first was that he had no time for an inquiry involving much trouble, and (as he justly foresaw) much annoyance
Read record →Crookes (who apparently did not) 'we have a right to expect some definite result'
Read record →'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)
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