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This knowledge of the future by the dead is to be found in more than one well-authenticated modern ghost story, where the apparition would seem to have manifested itself for the express purpose of warning those whom it has loved on earth of approaching danger
Read record →Philostratus[73] has described for us a famous interview which Apollonius of Tyana maintained that he had had with the shade of Achilles
Read record →In most of the Greek and Roman stories that survive, the wraiths of the dead are represented as revisiting their friends on earth in sleep
Read record →A mother was plunged in grief at the loss of her favourite son, when, on the night of the funeral, which had been long delayed at her earnest request, the boy appeared to her in a vision, and remained with her all night, kissing her and fondling her as if he w
Read record →This is by far the best of the stories in which we find a vision of the dead in sleep playing an important part; but there is also the well-known tale of the Byzantine maiden Cleonice.[76] She was of high birth, but had the misfortune to attract the attention
Read record →While he lies asleep that night, the ghost of the gnat appears to him in a dream, and bitterly reproaches him for the cruel death with which it has been rewarded for its heroic services
Read record →We have one or two ghost stories connected with early Greek mythology
Read record →With this story we may compare the well-known tale of the poet Simonides, who found an unknown corpse on the shore, and honoured it with burial.[86] Soon afterwards he happened to be on the point of starting on a voyage, when the man whom he had buried appeare
Read record →This is one of the simplest forms in which the story appears
Read record →Here one of the sailors got drunk and ravished a maiden, and was stoned to death in consequence by the indignant people of the town
Read record →man from Cyzicus, hearing the news, denied it, saying that Aristeas had met him on the way thither and talked to him; and when the relatives came, prepared to remove the body, they found no Aristeas, either alive or dead
Read record →No one can help being struck by the bald and meagre character of these stories as a whole
Read record →One really beautiful ghost story has, however, come down to us.[99] Phlegon of Tralles was a freedman of the Emperor Hadrian
Read record →Great was the confusion, and no one could tell what to do, when Hyllus, who is not only considered the best diviner among us, but is also a great authority on the interpretation of the flight of birds, and is generally well versed in his art, got up and said t
Read record →At first he thought it was only a favourite boy of his indulging in a little hunting with some friends; but on looking up he saw in front of him a woman at least three hundred feet high, with a sword thirty feet long
Read record →I will include here a couple of stories which, if they cannot exactly be classed as stories of warning apparitions, are interesting in themselves, and may at least be considered as ghost stories
Read record →Ælian[110] has a charming story of Philemon, the comic poet
Read record →When submitted to close investigation, it was, however, found that they could only be induced when the subjects knew they were being magnetized, and that they differed according as they were conducted in public or in private
Read record →We have seen that so far the history of hypnotism has given us two manifestations, or methods, that of passes and playing upon the imagination in various ways, used by Mesmer, and that of physical means, such as looking at a bright object, used by Braid
Read record →Electricity is a form of vibration, and according to the belief of many scientists, life is a species of vibration so high that we have no possible means of measuring it
Read record →He finally discovered, by the thrill that sent a tremor through the mighty structure, that he had found the note on which the great cable that upheld the mass, was keyed
Read record →It is well known that one part of the brain may be affected without affecting the other parts
Read record →This theory is based on the power of mind over the body as we observe it in everyday life
Read record →One young fellow, aged about eighteen, said that he was addicted to the cigarette habit
Read record →This was repeated on half a dozen subjects, and the manifestations were the same in each case
Read record →When his mind had absorbed this idea he was ordered to open his exhibition
Read record →The will of another is not so easily implanted as has been claimed
Read record →Later we shall see some of the outrageous forms this charlatanism assumes, and how it extends to the professional subjects as well as to the professional operators, till those subjects even impose upon scientific men who ought to be proof against such deceptio
Read record →Now persons of this character are in most cases morally as well as physically degenerate, and it is a curious fact that deception seems to be an inherent element in nearly all such characters
Read record →If an ordinary person were asked to hold out his arms at full length for five minutes he would soon become exhausted, his breathing would quicken, his pulse-rate increase
Read record →But is it enough to enable us to produce an a priori negation?
Read record →What he was supposed to accomplish was stated thus in the London Pall Mall Gazette, issue of December 2: “Dr
Read record →The fact is, the amateur can always be deceived, and there are no special tests that can be relied on
Read record →One of the most interesting phases of hypnotism is that of post-hypnotic suggestion, to which reference has already been made
Read record →Cocke describes one or two experiments of his own which have an important bearing on the question of criminal suggestion
Read record →s it is in natural slumber or in sleepwalking, and any unusual or especially exciting occurrence, especially anything that runs against the grain of the nature, reawakens that will, and it soon becomes as active as ever
Read record →Cocke says: “I have occasionally seen subjects who complained of headache, vertigo, nausea, and other similar symptoms after having been hypnotized, but these conditions were at a future hypnotic sitting easily remedied by suggestion.” Speaking of the use of h
Read record →The following is Professor Delboeuf’s account of Dr
Read record →“The mode of suggestion should be varied and adapted to the special suggestibility of the subject
Read record →“We have arrived at the point at which it will be plain that the condition produced in these cases, and known under a varied jargon invented either to conceal ignorance, to express hypotheses, or to mask the design of impressing the imagination and possibly pr
Read record →It is on power of supersensory, or extra-sensory perception that what is known as telepathy and clairvoyance are based
Read record →The first case was that of a girl suffering from hysterical tremor
Read record →It would seem that by an extraordinary effort the mind of a person in the waking state might be impressed through a great distance
Read record →Such facts as these have stimulated experiment in the direction of testing thought transference
Read record →Piper was the wife of a modest tailor, and lived on Pinckney street, back of Beacon Hill
Read record →The phrases Good Spirit, Great Spirit, and similar ones, have occasioned endless discrepancies in the minds of travellers
Read record →So it is with the story the Algonkins tell of their hero Manibozho, who, in the opinion of a well-known writer, "is always placed in antagonism to a great serpent, a spirit of evil."[64-1] It is to the effect that after conquering many animals, this famous mag
Read record →It is not without design that I recall this early dream of the religious fancy
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