Browse UFO case files, paranormal reports, historical texts and research dossiers. These are accounts and leads for investigation—not proof of an extraordinary explanation.
To combine details, compare matches and investigate connections across the collection, create an account and search Anomaly Graph.
Not sure where to begin? Our research guides explain how to follow sources, compare accounts and turn matches into a useful investigation.
53,266 published records with substantive text · Page 955 of 1,110
or of the woman he is wooing (Tylor); the Illinois Indians making figures of those whose days they desire to shorten, and stabbing these images to the heart, or by performing incantations upon a stone trying to form a stone in the hearts of their enemies (Dorm
Read record →Their common theory may be readily made out from a few typical cases, and thence applied confidently to the general mass
Read record →It is related that in the British war with Nepaul, Goree Sah had sent orders to "find out the name of the commander of the British army; write it upon a piece of paper; take it some rice and turmeric; say the great incantation three times; having said it, send
Read record →What is true of names is also regarded as true of other representatives or embodiments of personality--the footprint, the drawing, the image, the shadow
Read record →On the other hand, the influence of their adult companions, of their conventional surroundings, of the growth of the make-believe sentiment by which the laws of the real world are differentiated from those of fairy-land, make it difficult to pronounce as an ar
Read record →Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
Read record →The resemblances here involved are obvious enough; they are just such as underlie popular names of plants and the metaphorical use of terms
Read record →The transition from magic to science was made possible by, and itself illustrates the supplanting of, loose and false reasoning by close and logical thought; the pseudo-sciences represent weak and erroneous inference even more than they embody defective observ
Read record →nous and stinging plants, iron or sulphuric metals, diamond, jasper, amethyst, and magnet; the vein of analogy lying in the fierce character of the god, whose name the planet bears
Read record →The drum, once the serious terrifying instrument of the savage warrior, and the rattle, once the powerful emblem of the medicine man, have become the common toys of children
Read record →This characteristic of vision often serves as a source of amusement
Read record →The importance of the mind's eye in ordinary vision is also well illustrated in cases in which we see or seem to see what is not really present, but what for one cause or another it is natural to suppose is present
Read record →I give a further illustration of such a change in Fig
Read record →We are well aware that the canvas or the etching or the photograph before us is a flat surface in two dimensions, but we see the picture as the representation of solid objects in three dimensions
Read record →The effect here is quite striking, the blocks seeming almost animated and moving through space
Read record →Not only when the sense-impressions are ambiguous or defective, but when they are vague--when the light is dim or the forms obscure--does the mind's eye eke out the imperfections of physical vision
Read record →The mind is not properly set; there is little receptiveness, little alertness
Read record →The significance of the unconscious and the involuntary is apt to be underestimated or disregarded
Read record →When some years ago, the American public was confronted with the striking exhibitions of muscle-reading, the wildest speculations were indulged in regarding its true modus operandi; and the suggestion that all that was done was explicable by the skillful inter
Read record →Much attention has recently been paid to automatic writing, or the unconscious indication of the nature, not merely the direction of one's thoughts, while the attention is elsewhere engaged
Read record →of a number,--say from one to ten, or from one to one hundred,--and the other records any number which at the same moment suggests itself to him, it may result that the proportion of correct or partially correct guesses exceeds that which chance would produce;
Read record →Our every-day language, as well as the imagery of poetry, abounds in metaphors and similes appealing to images which the eye has taught us to appreciate
Read record →The function of vision in dreams is doubtless subject to similar individual variations, though probably to a less extent
Read record →Six became blind between the fifth and the seventh year: of these, four have dreams of seeing, but two of them do so seldom and with some vagueness; while two never dream of seeing at all
Read record →He records the answers of fourteen totally blind persons who lost their sight previous to their fifth year, and none of these has dream-vision
Read record →With regard to the partially blind, the question most analogous to the persistence of dream-vision after total blindness, is whether or not the dream-vision is brighter and clearer than that of waking life; whether the sight-centre maintains the full normal po
Read record →The remarkable powers which Helen Keller has exhibited throughout her phenomenal education give to an account of her dream life an especial interest
Read record →However, I dream oftenest of the unpleasant and horrible, no matter how happy and successful the day may have been
Read record →Returning to the general data regarding the dreams of the blind, the question that next suggests itself is whether and how, in cases where blindness ensued after a remembered period of vision, the pre-blindness period is distinguished from the post-blindness p
Read record →and after blindness, is a question to which I could obtain few intelligent and satisfactory answers; but, as far as they go, the tendency of these replies is to show that when blindness ensues close upon the critical period of five to seven years of age, the p
Read record →This leads naturally to the consideration of the power of the imagination in the blind
Read record →Many of the dreams present no special differentiation from those of the seeing, but the most carefully recorded ones usually reveal some traces of a defective or peculiar apperception
Read record →king the point at which the visual centre begins its life; this indeed occurs at a much earlier age, and this centre from the outset and continuously increases in complexity and stability
Read record →Heermann's observations also enable us to trace the anatomical conditions underlying the power of dream-vision
Read record →[16] A further interesting question regarding the dream-vision of the partially blind is, How much must they be able to see in order to dream of seeing?
Read record →[17] That even a comparatively slight disturbance of vision, affecting only a small portion of the visual experience, can leave a permanent trace upon the sight-centre is made very probable by a case (recorded by Dr
Read record →I am merely a ghost hunter; merely one who honestly believes that he inherits in some degree the faculty of psychic perceptiveness from a long line of Celtic ancestry; and who is, and always has been, deeply and genuinely interested in all questions relative t
Read record →That was in 1886; I was then a small boy, and now—now only—after I had long left the house, and was back in Dublin, with the experience of the strangling ghost still fresh in my mind, I began to wonder whether these strange sounds and shadows might not have be
Read record →Then I turned my attention to the house in Blackrock, and fared no better
Read record →Nothing was said about ghosts, and nothing was further from my parents’ minds when they took possession
Read record →Subsequently, my father made a thorough search of the house, but he found no one, and as all the windows were fastened and the doors locked on the inside, we could only come to the conclusion that the figure my mother and Teddy and I had all seen was a ghost
Read record →“No one told him the house was haunted; it was decided he should find that out for himself
Read record →I have heard the dying screams of a woman murdered beneath my window; I have heard on hill and plain the cries of coyottes, panthers, jackals and hyenas; and I have many times listened to the dismal hooting of night birds, when riding alone through the seclusi
Read record →I felt that nothing but a spirit of unadulterated evil could have made such a noise, and that it had come to gloat over my misfortunes—to let me know how greatly it rejoiced at the cruel blow I had suffered
Read record →I remember the passage well, for two of my fellow students were on board, and we spent nearly all the time on deck, telling ghost tales, and earnestly discussing the possibility of a future life
Read record →I then went to Perth, and there, quite by chance, met a Mr
Read record →“I don’t know whether that will do much good,” I observed
Read record →It was in San Francisco that I had my first experience with an American ghost
Read record →