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{263} Notices Relative to the Bannatyne Club, 1836, p. 191.

Remarkable Trial in Maryland.

{267} Paris, 1708. Reprinted by Lenglet Dufresnoy, in his Dissertations sur les Apparitions. Avignon, 1751, vol. iii. p. 38.

{269} Second edition, Buon, Paris, 1605. First edition, Angers, 1586.

{273} Dr. Lee, in Sights and Sounds (p. 43), quotes an Irish lawsuit in 1890. The tenants were anxious not to pay rent, but were non-suited. No reference to authorities is given. There was also a case at Dublin in 1885. Waldron's house was disturbed, 'stones were thrown at the windows and doors,' and Waldron accused his neighbour, Kiernan, of these a.s.saults. He lost his case (Evening Standard, February 23, 1885, is cited).

{275} p. 195, London, 1860.

{276} The account followed here is that of the narrator in La Table Parlante, p. 130, who differs in some points from the Marquis de Mirville in his Fragment d'un Ouvrage Inedit, Paris, 1852.

{277} For bewitching by touch see Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World, p. 150. 'Library of Old Authors,' London, 1862.

{279a} Cotton Mather, op. cit., p. 131.

{279b} Table Parlante, p. 151. A somewhat different version is given p. 145. The narrator seems to say that Cheval himself deposed to having witnessed this experiment.

{283a} Gazette des Tribunaux, February 2, 1846, quoted in Table Parlante, p. 306.

{283b} Table Parlante, p. 174.

{300} Hibbert, Apparitions, p. 211.

{303} Mather's own account of the lost sermon (p. 298) is in his Life, by Mr. Barrett Wendell, p. 118. It is by no means so romantic as Wodrow's version.

{307} An account of the method by which the Miss Foxes rapped is given, by a cousin of theirs, in Dr. Carpenter's Mesmerism (p. 150).

{312} See Dr. Carpenter's brief and lucid statement about 'Latent Thought' and 'Unconscious Cerebration,' in the Quarterly Review, vol. cx.x.xi. pp. 316-319.

{317} A learned priest has kindly looked for the alleged spiritus percutiens in dedicatory and other ecclesiastical formulae. He only finds it in benedictions of bridal chambers, and thinks it refers to the slaying spirit in the Book of Tobit.

{319a} S. P. R., x. 81.

{319b} London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1877.

{320} Quoted by Dr. Carpenter, op. cit., p. vii.

{324} Tom. ii. pp. 312, 435, edition of 1768.

{326} In the Quarterly Review, vol. cx.x.xi. pp. 336-337, Dr.

Carpenter criticises an account given by Lord Crawford of this performance. He asks for the evidence of the other witnesses. This was supplied. He detects a colloquial slovenliness in a phrase.

This was cleared up. He complains that the light was moonlight.

'The moon was s.h.i.+ning full into the room.' A minute philosopher has consulted the almanack and denies that there was any moon!

{327} Lord Crawford's evidence is in the Report of the Dialectical Society, p. 214

{328} Quarterly Review, vol. cx.x.xi. p. 303.

{329} Observe the caution of the Mosstrooper, even in that agitating moment! How good it is, and how wonderfully Sir Walter forecasts a seance.

{341a} Lucretius, iv. 26-75, Munro's translation.

{341b} Def. Orac., 19.

{341c} Ibid., iv. 193.

{352} Porphyry, Vita Plotini.

{353} Primitive Culture, i. 404.

{355} In the Pandemonium, or Devil's Cloyster, of Richard Bovet, Gent. (1684).