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Writes:--"On each of the above three occasions D

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 81
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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writes:--"On each of the above three occasions D

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(Miss X. writes:--"On each of the above three occasions D. asked me next day what I had played and found she was right. My playing of the Lied on November 26th was interrupted by the arrival of visitors, and the unfinished air naturally haunted me. D. writes:--On the day in question H. and I were together. I said to her that I could hear you [Miss X.] playing--a Lied we both associated with you--but that you never got beyond a certain part, which seemed to be repeated. H. replied, 'It is strange you should say that. I can't _hear_ her, but I have been seeing her at the piano for some minutes.' H. corroborates this.")

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