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Said: "Edge of card's going a dark colour

Date of account: Published 1894
Source: Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Reference: Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy · selected passage 45
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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said: "Edge of card's going a dark colour

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Subject: _A choir-boy_.[39] P. said: "Edge of card's going a dark colour. Somebody dressed up in white, eh? Can see something all white; edge all black, and like a figure in the middle. There's his hands up" (making a gesture to show the attitude) "like a ghost or something--you couldn't mistake it for anything but a ghost. It's not getting any better, it's fading--no, it's still there. It might frighten any one." He also made remarks about the difficulty of seeing a white figure on a white card (the blank card he was looking at was white), which Mr. Smith afterwards said corresponded with his own ideas.

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