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{78} S.P.R., viii., p. 178. The real names are intentionally reserved.
{80a} Corroborated by Mr. Elliot. Mrs. Elliot nearly fainted. S.P.R., viii., 344-345.
{80b} Oddly enough, maniacs have many more hallucinations of hearing than of sight. In sane people the reverse is the case.
{82} Anecdote by the lady. Boston Budget, 31st August, 1890. S.P.R., viii., 345.
{85a} Tom Sawyer, Detective.
{85b} Phantasms of the Living, by Gurney and Myers.
{85c} The story is given by Mr. Mountford, one of the seers.
{86} Journal of Medical Science, April, 1880, p. 151.
{88} Catholic theology recognises, under the name of "Bilocation," the appearance of a person in one place when he is really in another.
{91a} Phantasms, ii., pp. 671-677.
{91b} Phantasms of the Living.
{91c} Mr. E. B. Tylor gives a Maori case in Primitive Culture. Another is in Phantasms, ii., 557. See also Polack's New Zealand for the prevalence of the belief.
{92} Gurney, Phantasms, ii., 6.
{93} The late Surgeon-Major Armand Leslie, who was killed at the battle of El Teb, communicated the following story to the Daily Telegraph in the autumn of 1881, attesting it with his signature.
{95a} This is a remarkably difficult story to believe. "The morning bright and calm" is lit by the rays of the moon. The woman (a Mrs. Gamp) must have rushed past Dr. Leslie. A man who died in Greece or Russia "that morning" would hardly be arrayed in evening dress for burial before 4 a.m. The custom of using goloshes as "hell-shoes" (fastened on the Icelandic dead in the Sagas) needs confirmation. Men are seldom buried in eye-glasses--never in tall white hats.--Phantasms of the Living, ii., 252.
{95b} From a memorandum, made by General Birch Reynardson, of an oral communication made to him by Sir John Sherbrooke, one of the two seers.
{101} This is an old, but good story. The Rev. Thomas Tilson, minister (non-conforming) of Aylesford, in Kent, sent it on 6th July, 1691, to Baxter for his Certainty of the World of Spirits. The woman Mary Goffe died on 4th June, 1691. Mr. Tilson's informants were her father, speaking on the day after her burial; the nurse, with two corroborative neighbours, on 2nd July; the mother of Mary Goffe; the minister who attended her, and one woman who sat up with her--all "sober intelligent persons". Not many stories have such good evidence in their favour.
{103} Phantasms, ii., 528.
{111} "That which was published in May, 1683, concerning the Daemon, or Daemons of Spraiton was the extract of a letter from T. C., Esquire, a near neighbour to the place; and though it needed little confirmation further than the credit that the learning and quality of that gentleman had stampt upon it, yet was much of it likewise known to and related by the Reverend Minister of Barnstaple, of the vicinity to Spraiton. Having likewise since had fresh testimonials of the veracity of that relation, and it being at first designed to fill this place, I have thought it not amiss (for the strangeness of it) to print it here a second time, exactly as I had transcribed it then."-- BOVET.
{118} Shchapoff case of "The Dancing Devil" and "The Great Amherst Mystery".
{121} Additional MSS., British Museum, 27,402, f. 132.
{122} Really 1628, unless, indeed, the long-continued appearances began in the year before Buckingham's death; old style.
{127} It may fairly be argued, granting the ghost, his advice and his knowledge of a secret known to the countess, that he was a hallucination unconsciously wired on to old Towse by the mind of the anxious countess herself! {129a} Hamilton's Memoirs.