item: #1 of 35 id: 11950 author: University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism title: Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert date: None words: 63413 flesch: 70 summary: The slates were screwed together with the bit of slate pencil enclosed, and held by the Medium between her open palms, in her lap, under the table. The Medium cut a small piece of slate pencil and enclosed it in a double slate (one of those brought by Mr. Furness), into which was also put a paper upon which Dr. Leidy had written a question. keywords: answer; cabinet; commission; committee; curtain; end; feet; following; fullerton; furness; hand; investigation; left; leidy; medium; mrs; notes; paper; pencil; pepper; position; present; professor; question; raps; right; room; sellers; seybert; slate; slate pencil; spirit; spiritualism; séance; table; thompson; time; writing; zoellner cache: 11950.txt plain text: 11950.txt item: #2 of 35 id: 12353 author: Lang, Andrew title: The Making of Religion date: None words: 126298 flesch: 65 summary: But I do not give anecdotes of such savage successes as evidence to _facts;_ they are only illustrations, and evidence to _beliefs and methods_ (as of crystal gazing and automatic utterances of secondary personality), which, among the savages, correspond to the supposed facts examined by Psychical Research among the civilised. He says:-- 'For, first, there is _not to be found_, in _all history_, any miracle attested by a _sufficient number_ of men, of such unquestioned _good sense, education_, and _learning_, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted _integrity_, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts performed in such a _public manner_, and in so _celebrated a part of the world_, as to render the detection unavoidable; all which circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. keywords: account; ancestor; angus; animism; anthropological; australian; beings; belief; case; civilised; conception; course; creator; crystal; culture; dead; death; deity; evidence; evolution; example; experience; facts; faith; father; footnote; form; friend; ghost; god; gods; good; hallucinations; hand; herr; home; human; hypothesis; idea; israel; jehovah; kind; know; knowledge; lady; life; man; men; mind; miss; modern; mrs; mysteries; nature; new; non; opinion; origin; original; parish; people; person; phenomena; place; point; present; races; religion; sacrifice; savage; saw; science; second; soul; spencer; spirit; supreme; theory; things; thought; time; tylor; way; white; world; worship cache: 12353.txt plain text: 12353.txt item: #3 of 35 id: 13319 author: Belasco, David title: The Return of Peter Grimm date: None words: 36124 flesch: 93 summary: He is the son of _PETER'S_ dead sister, and has been educated by_ PETER _to carry on his work. [_He goes quickly to_ PETER _and listens to his heart. keywords: batholommey; belasco; catherine; day; desk; doctor; door; frederik; good; grimm; hand; house; james; know; macpherson; man; mrs; night; peter; peter grimm; rev; room; sir; time; uncle; uncle peter; want; william cache: 13319.txt plain text: 13319.txt item: #4 of 35 id: 14675 author: Smolnikar, Andrew B. (Andreas Bernardus) title: Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Most important developments regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppresive [sic] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole globe date: None words: 78511 flesch: 51 summary: Such trifles will not trouble those who are anxious to learn to understand this book, nor if they read sometimes CONNEXION and other times CONNECTION, I always write CONNEXION; but I was assured, that according to the present fashion CONNECTION is more used, although this use is irregular. I started from Massachussets to New Hampshire, because in that State besides other spirit manifestations in Concord a Convention of those adventists was held, who besides other blasphemies of the living God and his Christ teach also, that man dies as a beast, but that when Christ comes on the clouds, he will awaken the righteous from death, but the wicked will be eternally annihilated. keywords: beast; bishops; book; centre; christ; church; convention; day; emperor; era; events; german; government; heavenly; length; man; means; medium; men; message; mission; napoleon; nations; new; number; office; peace; people; pope; president; revel; signs; spirit; states; study; time; treatise; truth; union; use; volumes cache: 14675.txt plain text: 14675.txt item: #5 of 35 id: 1638 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The New Revelation date: None words: 20364 flesch: 67 summary: It is true that my own evidence up to then was not enough to convince me, but my reading, which was continuous, showed me how deeply other men had gone into it, and I recognised that the testimony was so strong that no other religious movement in the world could put forward anything to compare with it. At the same time I think that the presumption is very clear, that in the case of some mediums like Eusapia Palladino they may be guilty of trickery when their powers fail them, and yet at other times have very genuine gifts. keywords: body; case; death; evidence; fact; life; man; matter; messages; mind; people; phenomena; revelation; spirit; subject; thing; time; truth; world cache: 1638.txt plain text: 1638.txt item: #6 of 35 id: 19342 author: Alpheus, A. title: Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use date: None words: 34332 flesch: 65 summary: The experiment was repeated on other subjects, in all cases with the same result. They learn to imitate what they see, and since their living depends upon it, they must prove hypnotic subjects who can always be depended upon to do just what is wanted. keywords: body; brain; cases; chapter; cocke; condition; doctor; experiments; eyes; following; hand; head; hypnotism; influence; man; means; mind; operator; patient; person; phenomena; power; sleep; state; subject; suggestion; theory; time; use; way cache: 19342.txt plain text: 19342.txt item: #7 of 35 id: 19376 author: Sage, Michael title: Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research date: None words: 52742 flesch: 72 summary: But the greater number of those who have had sittings with Mrs Piper affirm that the information furnished was not in their consciousness. One of the editors of the _New York Herald_ interviewed Mrs Piper and on October 20, 1901, published an article somewhat speciously entitled, The Confessions of Mrs Leonora Piper. keywords: case; chapter; communicator; death; dr hodgson; facts; father; george; george pelham; hand; hodgson; hypothesis; hyslop; james; know; life; man; medium; moses; mrs; mrs piper; pelham; phenomena; phinuit; present; proc; professor; s.p.r; sitting; society; spirits; stainton; time; trance; vol; world cache: 19376.txt plain text: 19376.txt item: #8 of 35 id: 21041 author: Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine) title: Seen and Unseen date: None words: 89916 flesch: 72 summary: This girl told us how anxious she had always been to see her old teacher, who had appeared to her several times in the _séance_ room, but never in her old garments--a sort of sister's dress. Although forced to admit the facts, Miss Hunter fought every inch of the ground, so far as the _painful_ experiences were concerned. keywords: away; bed; brother; came; case; course; day; days; death; door; earth; evening; experience; fact; family; friend; good; hand; having; house; kind; lady; left; letter; life; man; matter; message; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; point; poor; present; question; room; round; saying; sitting; spirit; story; table; think; thought; time; truth; visit; way; woman; words; years cache: 21041.txt plain text: 21041.txt item: #9 of 35 id: 22593 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Shadow World date: None words: 69127 flesch: 79 summary: Tell me about Mrs. Miller. As Mrs. Miller, a quiet little woman (not so far removed from Mrs. Smiley's own type), entered the door and greeted us both, the psychic's face lighted up with pleasure. keywords: bottazzi; cameron; chair; circle; come; cone; eusapia; experiments; fowler; friend; hands; harris; light; little; man; matter; medium; miller; mind; moment; movement; mrs; phenomena; place; present; psychic; room; sitting; slate; smiley; spirit; table; test; time; voice; way; wilbur; work; writing; yes cache: 22593.txt plain text: 22593.txt item: #10 of 35 id: 30403 author: Todd, Thomas Olman title: Hydesville The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism date: None words: 10126 flesch: 66 summary: The ancestors of Mr. Fox were Germans, the name being originally Voss; but both he and Mrs. Fox were native born. In course of time Mrs. Fox, with both her daughters, went to live in Rochester, but neither change of place nor house, nor yet the separation of the family, afforded them any relief from the disturbances that evidently attached themselves to persons rather than places as formerly. keywords: bell; cellar; family; fox; house; hydesville; mrs; night; rap; rapping; raps; rochester; spirit; time; world; years cache: 30403.txt plain text: 30403.txt item: #11 of 35 id: 30540 author: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart title: The Gates Between date: None words: 40717 flesch: 85 summary: I do not know whether I was more self-confident or even more wilful than other men to whom is given the autocracy of our profession, and the dependence of women which accompanies it. I was never exactly a scoffer; but I had mocked at this fable as other men of my sort mock,--a subject for prophylactics, like measles or scarlet fever; and when you said that, you had said the whole. keywords: boy; brake; child; come; doctor; eyes; face; fellow; head; heart; helen; home; human; let; life; look; love; man; men; people; place; soul; spirit; street; thing; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world cache: 30540.txt plain text: 30540.txt item: #12 of 35 id: 33506 author: Davenport, Reuben Briggs title: The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters date: None words: 38463 flesch: 70 summary: Mrs. Wells expressed herself as shocked at the determination of Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane, but, she added, with seeming naîveté, you don't believe she will do it, do you? How have you regarded Mrs. Kane heretofore, Mrs. Wells? Why, with a good deal of respect as one of the first to get messages from the unseen world. Herald_ of May 27, 1888, contained this letter, written by Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane in London: THE CURSE OF SPIRITUALISM. keywords: children; commission; feet; floor; fox; fraud; furness; house; jencken; kane; leah; life; maggie; margaret; medium; mother; mrs; new; present; public; rappings; raps; sellers; seybert; sister; sounds; spirits; spiritualism; spiritualistic; table; time; world; years cache: 33506.txt plain text: 33506.txt item: #13 of 35 id: 34250 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Victor Ollnee's Discipline date: None words: 71588 flesch: 87 summary: Your poor, sweet mother is not to blame, and I can't blame the Aikens. Oppressed by the silence, Victor called out, Mother, are you here? keywords: altair; bartol; boy; city; day; door; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; home; house; joyce; leo; life; love; man; mean; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; night; ollnee; power; room; rose; son; table; thing; thought; time; victor; voice; want; way; woman; work; world; yes; youth cache: 34250.txt plain text: 34250.txt item: #14 of 35 id: 34475 author: Brackett, Edward Augustus title: Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They date: None words: 23480 flesch: 64 summary: For some reason which we do not understand, but which may be a necessity, the controlling spirit of the séance exercises a more or less despotic power over the manifestations; sometimes denying the privilege of manifestation, and forcing back spirits who have been accustomed to appear at other séances. She returned to the cabinet, and many forms came out and were recognized. keywords: beings; bertha; cabinet; conditions; control; fay; forms; hand; life; light; manifestations; materialization; medium; mrs; room; spirit; subject; séance; things; time cache: 34475.txt plain text: 34475.txt item: #15 of 35 id: 34988 author: Hooker, Brian title: The Professor's Mystery date: None words: 70853 flesch: 88 summary: His pause had troubled me, and I hesitated, but Mrs. Tabor would hear no arguments or excuses, and overwhelmed my stammering in a rippling torrent of proof that I was a very silly young man, and that she would not hear another word about any such an absurdity as my going; and as I stood embarrassed, Mr. Tabor, with another glance at his daughter, took my bag himself, and, his hand upon my shoulder, fairly bore me off to my room. Of course, it's just as they said: Mr. Tabor has heard some absurd slander, or got you mixed up with somebody else; and Mrs. Tabor worried herself into a state about it, and they turned you out. keywords: carucci; course; crosby; doctor; door; eyes; face; family; going; half; hand; head; home; house; lady; little; look; man; matter; mind; miriam; miss; moment; mother; mrs; paulus; people; place; reid; right; room; sheila; table; tabor; things; thought; time; trouble; voice; want; way; window; woman; world cache: 34988.txt plain text: 34988.txt item: #16 of 35 id: 35681 author: Grierson, Francis title: Psycho-Phone Messages date: None words: 12559 flesch: 65 summary: For other peoples it may mean political bondage and the total loss of a national spirit. You must in some manner experience the ordeals common to other peoples, and you have seen from a distance what has overtaken many cities and nations, the inhabitants of which felt themselves as fixed as the rocks in the soil. keywords: america; country; difference; emotion; england; english; europe; france; french; general; grierson; house; liberty; man; men; new; people; power; president; revolution; time; war; women; world; years cache: 35681.txt plain text: 35681.txt item: #17 of 35 id: 36009 author: None title: A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead date: None words: 65397 flesch: 62 summary: After we had had a splendid repast the requested trumpet seance was arranged, at which all were present, and had the pleasure of being spoken to by Swedenborg, Emil, Ida, and many other spirits, and some of them patted us with their hands. Your true friend in spirit life, FREDRIKA EHRENBORG. keywords: body; chapter; children; cincinnati; communications; day; dear; development; earth; ehrenborg; following; form; friend; future; god; good; government; green; heaven; human; law; life; light; line; love; madam; man; mars; material; medium; morning; mrs; new; people; physical; planet; power; present; read; seance; slate; spirit; spirit world; spiritual; subject; swedenborg; system; things; time; truth; wife; work; world; years cache: 36009.txt plain text: 36009.txt item: #18 of 35 id: 36312 author: Putnam, Allen title: Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism date: None words: 139598 flesch: 61 summary: When clear-headed logicians, being also conscientious and true men, as well as holders of undoubting faith that none but covenanted devotees to a wily devil could obtain knowledge and work harm by mysterious processes,--when such men took this case into careful consideration, the facts stated by the girl were to them proof that Mrs. Corey was the devil's minion, and therefore must be consigned to a witch's doom--death. The account shows that four _such_ children, of a sudden, without previous training for it, all join at first, and three of them long unitedly continue, in a course of most distressing imposition upon their own family, upon physicians, clergymen, magistrates, and the neighborhood; also that the imposition is manifested by astounding physical feats, and simultaneous, identical signs and complaints of suffering, even though the sufferers are in separate apartments. keywords: account; action; afflicted; agents; ann; beings; belief; body; boston; boy; calef; case; character; children; creed; day; devil; doubt; evidence; facts; faith; family; forces; form; girls; god; good; history; house; human; inner; knowledge; life; little; man; margaret; mather; mediumistic; men; mind; mortals; mrs; nature; new; old; ones; people; persons; powers; presence; present; public; putnam; salem; sarah; saw; senses; spirit; statement; testimony; things; time; tituba; upham; use; village; wife; witchcraft; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 36312.txt plain text: 36312.txt item: #19 of 35 id: 36512 author: Cruikshank, George title: Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" date: None words: 27085 flesch: 59 summary: The drawings profess to be designed and conjointly executed in this way, by _holy_ spirits or _angels_, and are given as _sacred_ And so with the other parts of the figure, all except the face is _material_; and then to my old enemy in one sense, and _friend_ in another--Napoleon, for I volunteered, and armed myself to assist to keep him from coming over here before I was twenty years of age; and as a caricaturist, what by turning him, sometimes into ridicule, and sometimes, in fact very often I may say, killing him with my sharp etching needle, little Boney used very frequently to give me a good solid bit of meat, and make my pot boil. keywords: apparitions; body; clothes; course; day; fact; figure; gentleman; ghost; good; hand; head; home; house; life; light; man; mrs; persons; place; public; question; spirits; table; time; way; work cache: 36512.txt plain text: 36512.txt item: #20 of 35 id: 36730 author: Willson, Beckles title: Occultism and Common-Sense date: None words: 56213 flesch: 72 summary: Mr M. writes as follows under date 23rd December 1891:-- I have seen my wife's letter in regard to the recognition of Sir X. Y.'s picture at ----. Dr Speer also records a levitation on 3rd December: Mr M. was floated about, and a large dining-room chair was placed on the table. keywords: 8vo; account; bed; case; cloth; crown; crown 8vo; day; death; door; dream; evidence; face; fact; father; following; gilt; hand; home; house; lady; life; man; manifestations; medium; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; net; night; novel; persons; phenomena; place; present; professor; room; society; spirit; subject; table; telepathy; thought; time; vol; water; way; wife; years cache: 36730.txt plain text: 36730.txt item: #21 of 35 id: 36908 author: Culpin, Millais title: Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge date: None words: 42206 flesch: 58 summary: Two where he is alone and one where he is in a group of other men. one of him in a group of other men; yet this is the revelation referred to by Sir Arthur--the photograph incident that has impressed so many. keywords: belief; case; chapter; consciousness; desire; dissociation; dream; example; explanation; footnote; hysteria; knowledge; man; medium; memories; memory; men; mind; oliver; patient; people; personality; place; power; sir; spirit; story; stream; subject; suggestion; thought; time; unconscious; water; way; work cache: 36908.txt plain text: 36908.txt item: #22 of 35 id: 37917 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: Across the Stream date: None words: 100838 flesch: 81 summary: Then Archie and William, sometimes with a sister, whose presence, Archie thought, was not wholly desirable, since she impeded the free flow of talk between him and William, would go down to the lake, and William, who could do everything, put worms on hooks (they did not seem to mind, for they said no word of protest), and sculled across to the sluice above which was deep water, where the fish fed, and away from the reeds, where the line got entangled, so that it was impossible to know whether you were engaged with a fish or a vegetable. * * * The house in Grosvenor Square, where his mother had become housekeeper and Jessie kitchen-maid, had at present in it only a few wounded officers from France, and during these two or three days in town Archie could still occupy his own bedroom, while his servant slept in the dressing-room adjoining. keywords: abracadabra; archie; bampton; bed; blessington; boy; come; day; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; helena; house; jeannie; jessie; lady; left; life; look; lord; love; man; martin; master archie; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; night; paper; room; round; sea; self; sense; sort; sun; table; talk; thing; thought; time; tintagel; water; way; william; world; years cache: 37917.txt plain text: 37917.txt item: #23 of 35 id: 39212 author: Marryat, Florence title: There is No Death date: None words: 107395 flesch: 77 summary: When I entered the _séance_ room, the medium had not arrived, and I had time to take stock of the audience. We had been in the habit of spending our Sunday evenings in Miss Roberts' _séance_ room, and she begged me not to miss the last opportunity. keywords: ance; cabinet; child; circle; cook; dark; day; death; door; dress; earth; eglinton; evening; eyes; face; florence; friend; girl; good; hair; hand; head; house; husband; john; lady; life; man; medium; men; miss; mother; mrs; night; occasion; people; place; powles; present; room; round; saw; sister; sitting; spirit; spiritualism; table; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 39212.txt plain text: 39212.txt item: #24 of 35 id: 39279 author: Flammarion, Camille title: Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants date: None words: 163749 flesch: 69 summary: They believed in the grace of the Most High and claimed (not without reason too) that, coming from other hands, these signatures were to be suspected. CHAPTER VI THE EXPERIMENTS OF COUNT DE GASPARIN One of the most important series of experiments that has been made on the subject of moving tables is that of Count Agénor de Gasparin at Valleyres, Switzerland, in September, October, November, and December of the year 1853. keywords: action; arm; body; case; chair; conditions; contact; cook; curtain; day; distance; end; eusapia; existence; experiments; explanation; face; facts; feet; fingers; floor; following; foot; force; form; fraud; good; hand; head; home; human; hypothesis; inches; katie; kind; left; levitation; light; little; man; matter; medium; mind; miss; mme; moment; movement; nature; number; objects; order; paladino; persons; phenomena; physical; place; point; power; present; professor; question; raps; results; room; round table; saw; science; second; sitting; spirit; state; study; subject; séance; table; thing; thought; time; truth; unknown; way; weight; work; writing; years cache: 39279.txt plain text: 39279.txt item: #25 of 35 id: 39718 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Wanderings of a Spiritualist date: None words: 84393 flesch: 71 summary: The lecture was a private one and was attended by Mr. Charles Richet, Mr. Gabrielle Delanne, and a number of other men of science. It should be a fine eleven which contains a genius like Hobbs, backed by such men as the bustling bulldog, Hendren, a great out-field as well as a grand bat, or the wily, dangerous Hearne, or Douglas, cricketer, boxer, above all warrior, a worthy leader of Englishmen. keywords: audience; australia; book; british; case; children; church; conditions; country; course; day; days; deep; doubt; doyle; end; england; evidence; experience; face; fact; general; god; good; great; hand; head; high; home; house; knowledge; lady; life; london; man; matter; medium; melbourne; men; miles; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; occasion; old; people; place; present; press; public; question; real; result; room; round; save; sea; ship; sir; spirit; spiritualists; state; subject; sydney; things; thought; time; town; truth; view; war; water; way; wife; work; world; years; zealand cache: 39718.txt plain text: 39718.txt item: #26 of 35 id: 42318 author: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge's Dream date: None words: 56233 flesch: 61 summary: And why does it so often happen that the spirits--if they _are_ spirits--can not communicate anything except what is already in the mind of the medium, or at least of some other person present? I am constrained to say, my mysterious friend, that the novelty and ingenuity of your ideas surprise me greatly, and I do, in all candor, acknowledge that you have skillfully disposed of my objections to the spiritual theory of these phenomena on _rational_ grounds, and explained the philosophy of this thing, in a manner which I am at present unable to gainsay. keywords: answer; body; children; church; course; day; dead; death; devil; facts; god; good; hands; human; intelligence; life; man; matter; medium; mind; nature; new; nurse; parris; persons; phenomena; planchette; power; present; questions; salem; satan; science; society; spirit; state; subject; theory; things; thought; time; wife; work; world; years cache: 42318.txt plain text: 42318.txt item: #27 of 35 id: 4251 author: Corelli, Marie title: The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance date: None words: 129457 flesch: 76 summary: Nothing certainly is so difficult in the ordinary way of life men choose to live, answered Santoris--For the most part they run after the shadow and forsake the light. A mirror in the room showed me my own face, happy and radiant,--my own eyes bright and smiling,--no care seemed to have left a trace on my features, and I was fully conscious of a perfect strength and health that made the mere act of breathing a pleasure. keywords: air; aselzion; beauty; body; brayle; catherine; course; dark; day; death; deck; deep; divine; dream; earth; end; eyes; face; fact; fear; force; form; god; good; great; half; hand; harland; head; heart; human; joy; kind; life; light; look; love; man; matter; mere; mind; moment; nature; open; people; place; power; rafel; room; rose; round; santoris; sea; secret; self; sense; set; silence; smile; soul; speak; spirit; sun; things; thought; time; understand; voice; water; way; white; wish; woman; work; world; yacht; years cache: 4251.txt plain text: 4251.txt item: #28 of 35 id: 43237 author: Emmons, Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) title: The Spirit Land date: None words: 80672 flesch: 65 summary: A _key_, _nails_, or any piece of _iron_ placed on the table _instantaneously stopped_ the phenomena. But the same sum has been offered to any one who will prove that _spirits_ move tables, chairs, and the like, or that _spirits_ produce the noises and other manifestations ascribed to them. keywords: account; agent; appearance; bed; belief; bible; body; case; chapter; children; come; day; days; death; dreams; earth; effects; electricity; end; evil; eye; facts; family; father; following; god; good; hand; head; house; human; influence; lady; left; man; manner; means; medium; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; number; people; persons; phenomena; place; power; present; room; saw; sounds; spirits; state; subject; superstition; table; things; time; way; work; world; years; young cache: 43237.txt plain text: 43237.txt item: #29 of 35 id: 43346 author: None title: The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2) Being Facts, Records, and Traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc. date: None words: 61689 flesch: 64 summary: --Vol. i. pp. A Discerner of spirits, i. 81 Abimelech's dream, i. 210 Aerolites, i. 24 After-vision of a suicide, ii. 75 Alexander Macdonald's dream, i. 285 Amulet of the Grahams, i. 277 ---- of the Macdonald Lockharts, i. 278 Ann Thorne bewitched, i. 194 Apparition at Ballarat, ii. 61 ---- at time of death, ii. 59 ---- in the Jewel House, ii. 105 ---- near Cardiff, ii. 114 ---- of a college friend, ii. 71 ---- of a crow, ii. 131 ---- of a dying father, ii. 58 ---- of a dying lady to her children, ii. 64 ---- of a father to his son, ii. 58 ---- of a friend, ii. 60 ---- of a sister, ii. 59 ---- of a son to his mother and another, ii. 73 ---- of an officer, ii. 10 ---- of Dr. Ferrar's daughter, ii. 25 ---- of Philip Weld, ii. 51 ---- of Rev. W. Naylor, ii. 7 ---- of S. Stanislaus, ii. 51 ---- seven years after death, ii. 71 ---- to a gentleman, ii. 119 ---- to a lady and her child, ii. 113 ---- to a lady and her child, ii. 117 ---- to a sentry, and his death thereupon, ii. 108 ---- to Lord Brougham, ii. keywords: ---of; account; apparition; appearance; bed; body; child; church; college; day; death; evil; facts; family; figure; following; form; friend; ghost; god; good; hand; house; lady; left; life; lord; lyttelton; man; medium; men; moment; morning; mrs; nature; night; persons; phenomena; place; present; rev; room; saw; sir; spirits; spiritualism; state; story; subject; table; testimony; time; world; years cache: 43346.txt plain text: 43346.txt item: #30 of 35 id: 439 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Vital Message date: None words: 29167 flesch: 63 summary: They differ much in literary skill and are not all equally impressive, but the point which must strike any impartial mind is the general agreement of these various accounts as to the conditions of spirit life. Some cannot advance further than the borderland--such as never thought of spirit life and have lived entirely for the earth, its cares and pleasures--even clever men and women, who have lived simply intellectual lives without spirituality. keywords: body; book; case; christ; dead; earth; evidence; facts; force; human; life; man; matter; medium; messages; mind; new; phenomena; power; psychic; religion; results; spirit; subject; time; truth; voice; way; world; years cache: 439.txt plain text: 439.txt item: #31 of 35 id: 44349 author: Evans, Henry Ridgely title: Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy date: None words: 54183 flesch: 68 summary: After Slade's departure from Hamburg, spirit mediums sprang up like toadstools in a single night. Spirit legs, spirit hands, he gives table and chair; Gravitation defying, he flies in the air; But the fact to which henceforth his fame should be pinned, Is his power to raise, not himself but the wind!-- _Home, Home, Dan. keywords: 8vo; apparatus; blavatsky; cabinet; crookes; curtain; death; end; experiments; fact; fig; fingers; force; hand; home; illustration; keeler; left; letters; life; madame; man; medium; mind; mrs; new; old; paper; persons; phenomena; place; power; psychic; right; room; science; secret; sitter; slate; society; spirit; spiritualism; subject; séance; table; theosophical; thought; time; work; world; writing; years; york cache: 44349.txt plain text: 44349.txt item: #32 of 35 id: 51743 author: McCabe, Joseph title: Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined date: None words: 48086 flesch: 71 summary: Ofelia Corralès, the medium in question, was the daughter of a high civic functionary of San José; an _unpaid_ medium, you notice. Other mediums have leather cuffs inside their sleeves, with a dark piece of iron or a hook projecting to catch the edge of the table. keywords: case; crookes; dark; day; dead; doyle; evidence; fraud; ghost; hands; home; lady; light; london; man; medium; men; messages; movement; mrs; new; people; phenomena; photograph; professor; reader; room; sir; sir a.; sitters; spirits; spiritualist; table; things; time; way; world; years cache: 51743.txt plain text: 51743.txt item: #33 of 35 id: 563 author: Kennon, J. L. title: The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation date: None words: 22355 flesch: 64 summary: CONTENTS Chapter I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS. The people of Mars are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets. keywords: chapter; christ; earth; energy; father; god; harmony; individual; inhabitants; life; love; man; mars; martian; material; people; planet; planet mars; spiritual; system; time; truth; universe; water; world cache: 563.txt plain text: 563.txt item: #34 of 35 id: 56713 author: Johnson, G. Lindsay (George Lindsay) title: The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne date: None words: 122222 flesch: 80 summary: I often have little times of reverie. Well, Monsieur Delapine, your conjuring tricks will not help you much when I come to deal with you. keywords: arm; beaupaire; body; case; course; céleste; day; dead; dear; death; delapine; doctor; door; duval; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; find; francs; friend; general; girl; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; henri; house; lady; leave; left; length; life; like; look; love; madame; mademoiselle; man; marcel; matter; mind; moment; money; monsieur; mother; paris; paul; payot; people; pierre; place; play; police; professor; professor delapine; renée; riche; right; room; round; roux; saw; saying; sir; smile; table; things; thought; time; villebois; violette; voice; watch; way; world; years cache: 56713.txt plain text: 56713.txt item: #35 of 35 id: 61807 author: Page, Charles Grafton title: Psychomancy: Spirit-Rappings and Table-Tippings Exposed date: None words: 18816 flesch: 59 summary: We have too much contempt for _odylic_ philosophy, or any such chimera or vagary, to stop and discuss it here. But, as in many of the best _authenticated_ cases, the table moves along the floor with a gradual, slow, and dignified motion, without jumping, and more especially as many of the tables are upon castors, we see no reason why wheels should not be better than legs, and why coaches will not do as well, or better, than tables--for the rolling friction is much less than the sliding friction, and carriages could be made very light for this particular purpose. keywords: agency; case; electricity; floor; fox; girls; hands; new; persons; power; present; rap; rappers; rappings; raps; science; sounds; spirits; table; time; tippings cache: 61807.txt plain text: 61807.txt