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This naturally demanded caution, though the girl's own frank nature is, I understand, a sufficient guarantee for those who know her
Read record →The old cry of "Fake!" was less conspicuous than I had expected, but for some years the press has been slowly widening its views upon psychic matters, and is not so inclined as of old to attribute every new manifestation to fraud
Read record →"Millions of photographs have been taken by operators of different ages--children and grown-ups--of country scenes and places which, we have been taught, are the habitats of nymphs and elves; yet until the arrival upon the scene of these two wonderful children
Read record →I was surprised, therefore, as well as delighted, when I had his letter at Melbourne, informing me of complete success and enclosing three more wonderful prints, all taken in the fairy glen
Read record →I spent the whole day with the family and took photographs of the new sites, which proved to be in close proximity to the others
Read record →"The central ethereal cocoon shape, something between a cocoon and an open chrysalis in appearance, lightly suspended amid the grasses, is the bower or cradle
Read record →There was one development, however, which is worth recording
Read record →Gnomes and Fairies. In the field we saw figures about the size of the gnome
Read record →I was not sure whether it had any feet or not
Read record →Wood Elves. (Under the old beeches in the wood, Cottingley, August 12, 1921.) Two tiny wood elves came racing over the ground past us as we sat on a fallen tree trunk
Read record →Water Fairy. (August 14, 1921.) By a small waterfall, which threw up a fine spray, was seen poised in the spray a diminutive fairy form of an exceedingly tenuous nature
Read record →The fairies float very slowly, remaining motionless as far as bodies and limbs are concerned, until they come round to the ground again
Read record →In the field.) I saw three figures racing from the field into the wood--the same figures previously seen in the wood
Read record →Fairy Band. There has suddenly arrived in the field a fairy director with a band of fairy people
Read record →Golden Fairy. One specially beautiful one has a body clothed in iridescent shimmering golden light
Read record →There is much curious evidence of varying value concerning these borderland forms, which come or go either in fact or imagination--the latter most frequently, no doubt
Read record →What was my delight to see a tiny green man
Read record →A lady with whom I have corresponded, Mrs
Read record →Looking closely, I saw several little figures dressed in brown peering through the bushes
Read record →I know a gentleman belonging to one of the learned professions whose career as, let us say, a surgeon would not be helped if this article were to connect him with fairy lore
Read record →Another friend of mine who claims to have the power of seeing fairies is Mr
Read record →ed without being actually seen, writes to me: "I have been distinctly aware of minute intelligent beings in connection with the evolution of plant forces, particularly in certain localities; for instance, in Ecclesbourne Glen
Read record →Another gentleman who claims to have this most remarkable gift is Mr
Read record →could be made out if it were pleaded that there have always been many different races of fairyland, and that samples of these races may greatly differ from each other, and may inhabit varying spots; so that an observer like Mr
Read record →The claim that the fairy rings so often seen in meadow or marshland are caused by the beat of fairy feet is certainly untenable, as they unquestionably come from fungi such as Agaricus gambosus or Marasmius oreades, which grow from a centre, continually desert
Read record →His information about fairies tallies very well with that of the Welshman quoted above
Read record →There are many cases on record where they are claimed to have shown their power, and to have taken revenge for some slight
Read record →Farnese, under inspiration gives an account of many mysteries, including that of fairies
Read record →One may well ask what connection has this fairy-lore with the general scheme of psychic philosophy?
Read record →These children seem to have gone into a trance state before they found themselves in the country of the fairies--a country of intelligent beings, very small, 12 to 18 inches high
Read record →th my arms uplifted to peg the towel on the line, when I was aware of the galloping close behind me, and suddenly a little figure, riding a tiny pony, rode right under my uplifted arms
Read record →I transplanted one of the bulbs to a pot when half-grown, and took it with me when I went away for a short holiday
Read record →I was seated in the middle of a road in some cornfields, playing with a group of poppies, and never shall I forget my utter astonishment at seeing a funny little man playing hide-and-seek among these flowers to amuse me, as I thought
Read record →So-called spirit photographs, for instance, imply necessarily a certain degree of materialization before the 'form' could come within the range even of the most sensitive of films
Read record →"In the investigations I have pursued in Yorkshire, the New Forest, and Scotland, many fairy lovers and observers have been interviewed and their accounts compared
Read record →"THE FAIRY BODY.--The normal working body of the gnome and fairy is not of human nor of any other definite form, and herein lies the explanation of much that has been puzzling concerning the nature-spirit kingdom generally
Read record →The diminutive human form--sometimes grotesque, as in the case of brownie and gnome, sometimes beautifully graceful, as in the surface-fairy variety--if conditions allow, is assumed in a flash
Read record →"FAIRY WINGS.--The wings are a feature that one would hardly expect to find in conjunction with arms
Read record →"THE FUTURE.--What might follow an intelligent understanding of the 'little people,' and the establishment of mutual good feeling, opens up a prospect alluring in the extreme
Read record →trespass upon the space round the summit, sacred to the great green angels who have watched there for more than two thousand years, guarding one of the centres of living force that link the past to the future of that mystic land of Erin
Read record →Small Turtle never meant Sun and Moon to travel together
Read record →They further aim to illustrate that misconceptions in psychology, as in other realms, are as often the result of bad logic as of defective observation, and that both are apt to be called into being by inherent mental prepossessions
Read record →The several acknowledgments to be recorded are as follows: To the "Popular Science Monthly," for permission to reprint The Psychology of Deception (December, 1888), The Psychology of Spiritualism (April, 1889), A Study of Involuntary Movements (April and Septe
Read record →rary illustration, a visitor from Mars, were to alight upon our planet at its present stage of development, and if his intellectual interests induced him to survey the range of terrestrial views of the nature of what is "in heaven above, or on the earth beneat
Read record →The search for "psychic" experiences and for unusual persons and beliefs seemed to form the leit-motiv of her nomadic existence
Read record →Later, in a moment of confession induced by the discovery of a package of Chinese envelopes ready to serve for miraculous appearances, she is reported to have said, "What is one to do, when in order to rule men it is necessary to deceive them; when their very
Read record →airly familiar.[1] For, like other movements, it presents both doctrines and manifestations; and, like other movements, it achieved its popularity through its manifestations and emphasized the doctrines to maintain the interest and solidarity of its numerous c
Read record →ore) may have been due to the originality of the Fox children; the planchette has its analogies in Chinese and European modes of divination; clairvoyance was incorporated from the phenomena of artificial somnambulism, as practiced by the successors of Mesmer;
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