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I am coming!" They all came hastily, both of Rat's people, and of Leopard's people; and there they saw Rat held fast by the hands and legs of the image
Read record →On the next day, before the Ngwai (a Bird, that announces the first coming of daylight) had sounded, Tortoise went out clear on to where was that giant Goat
Read record →Mbuma-tyetye continued his own journey, on, on, on, until at a cross-roads, he found a giant Tooth, as large as a man
Read record →| Ilende | | Partridge | Ngwayi | Nkwani | | | Parrot | Koho | Ngozyo | | | Kos Plantain | Ekâi | Akândâ | | | Porcupine | Ngomba | | | | Rat (domestic) | Etoli | | | | Rat (wild) | Ko | | | | Sheep | Udâmbe | Odâmbe | | | Shrike | Asanze | | | | Asanze Snail
Read record →“After the death of Ardates, his son Xisuthrus reigned eighteen sari
Read record →n all the number amounted to ten kings, and the term of their reigns to an hundred and twenty sari
Read record →Allusion is made in this hymn, it will be noticed, to a fabulous serpent with seven heads, which beats the sea into waves
Read record →This attack was a primitive attempt to account for lunar eclipses, dressed up in poetry, and may be compared with the Chinese belief that when the moon is eclipsed it has been devoured by the dragon of night
Read record →Again the main difficulty arises from the fragmentary state of the documents, it being impossible even to decide the order of the fragments
Read record →nd his nature is shown by a passage in the annals of Assur-nazir-pal (“Cuneiform Inscriptions,” vol
Read record →After the date of the later books of the Old Testament we know nothing of Nimrod for some time; it is probable that he was fully mentioned by Berosus in his history, but his account of the giant hunter has been lost
Read record →Photographic phenomena differ from practically all others studied by psychical researchers in being, so to speak, permanently objective
Read record →They would be easy to control IF one were allowed to take the necessary precautions
Read record →The question of what kind of evidence should be considered adequate is one which will be easier to answer after the various possibilities of fraud which must be eliminated have been pointed out
Read record →A considerable number of his extras, indistinct though they were, were recognised by the sitters and their friends as the dead person whose photograph they were expecting
Read record →In 1869 he appeared again in New York, and commenced business on his old lines
Read record →Three years later spirit photographs were being taken in this country
Read record →Much controversy followed this exposure; while many declared that spirit photographs were an utter fraud, others considered that though some were genuine, mediums frequently obtained their spirits by trickery in order not to disappoint their sitters
Read record →Disgusted by the trickery he had detected in Hudson, Beattie determined to experiment for himself as to whether genuine spirit photographs could actually be obtained
Read record →Before he had been back long, however, the French authorities intervened
Read record →Since 1875 a number of spirit photographers have practised in this country, but few have attained any note
Read record →In America the movement has always found rather more adherents than in this country
Read record →“When, however, I asked the medium to allow me to examine the process of development of the plates, he flatly refused to allow anything of the kind!
Read record →He therefore made Wyllie wash his hands before entering the dark-room, but the extras still appeared
Read record →Another modern development, which has been largely exploited by Hope, of Crewe, is the “psychograph.” For this, again, no camera is used; a plate is carefully wrapped up, usually sealed, and submitted to the medium’s influence
Read record →The taking of spirit photographs under so-called “test conditions” has frequently been carefully investigated by men of high reputation in other walks of life, chiefly men of letters and men of science
Read record →Faces may be sketched in chemicals on small pieces of card, or even on the medium’s fingers
Read record →Any leakage of white light into the dark-room, either from the lamp or from outside, can be used to produce blotches and streaks on the plate
Read record →The argument most frequently brought forward, in favour of the genuineness of spirit photographs, is that the conditions employed in their taking leave no loophole for fraud
Read record →Saturday being a Bank Holiday, the plates were purchased on Friday evening by B, and kept by him until the meeting
Read record →focussed, apparently on the back wall of the room
Read record →I did not hold another photographic séance, but being emboldened by success, introduced at the next meeting “a medium from London.” (As a matter of fact he came from Trinity, but I had ascertained that nobody knew him, which was the important thing.) After sui
Read record →pretty generally known, and the undesired notoriety brought so many requests to allow other visitors at the séances that it became evident to me that the proceedings must terminate
Read record →If a plate is wrapped in paper and submitted to “spirit influences”--whatever these may be--never being exposed in a camera at all, and on development shows faces or writing, I personally can only find one explanation--trickery
Read record →tographs produced by professional or semi-professional mediums, a critical observer with practical photographic experience can point out some such definite evidence of fraudulent manipulation
Read record →The so-called “Fairy Photographs” recently published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mr
Read record →The lighting of the fairies is badly wrong; they are brightly illuminated from a point behind the camera, whereas Alice is less brightly illuminated, and from the left-hand side
Read record →The two more recently published photographs are very similar to “Alice and the Fairies,” and the same general criticisms apply
Read record →An artist to whom I have shown this photograph, together with the full-length photographs of “Iris” published with the earlier article in the Strand Magazine, is of opinion that the fairy has the same figure and features as Iris, and, in fact, may very well be
Read record →rse, concerned with elaborate “stage effects,” but rather with small matters like the substitution of one plate for another or the distraction of the sitter’s attention while the required extra is impressed upon the plate.) The conjurer’s audience knows that i
Read record →One would think that anyone who reads Mr
Read record →Very briefly, the story was as follows: Mr
Read record →But this card, impressive as it looks, will not really take the trick
Read record →I may first mention the very thorough exposure by Dr
Read record →The conviction of the genuineness of spirit photographs is a conviction which is founded on purely negative evidence (namely, that on very many occasions no fraud has been actually discovered), and held in the face of definite positive evidence (namely, the oc
Read record →Thus in Light for January 29th I find advanced as “most evidential” the fact that whereas a plate which had been in the possession of the medium for several days showed an “extra,” others, simultaneously exposed, which had not been in her possession, did not
Read record →This theory of the psychic transparency is very popular just now and is being freely invoked to account for the obvious indications of fraud which even a superficial study of spirit photographs reveals
Read record →who enjoyed the privilege of a sitting with this artist not long ago tells me that when he went to focus the camera (as one is frequently invited to do), he clearly saw a wholly gratuitous face already projected on the ground-glass!
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