Materialized Apparitions

ther personations by the medium, or they wer

ould often manifest at a séance, apparently of both sexes, and of all ages and sizes, f

startled by the occurrence, for I had become so familiar with it that I had come to regard it as a natural consequence of her appeara

tly looking for it, and have seen many instances where the likeness was so marked that it would have been impossible to mistake it; yet I have learned not to regard it as positive evidence of identity. Whatev

ist, the other in mine-upon her saying, "I have not seen you since you were a lad; how do you suppose I should know you now?"-stoop, kiss her o

utside of the cabinet, in the pres

the séance than the medium has. I have, several times, by the action of a stron

or less reflected in these séances. They reap what they sow. Th

her hand, I have seen entire strangers, coming from distant parts of the country, who had never

ustrated better than words the information I was seeking; enjoy

e up to the cabinet with me, I was greatly disappointed in the way she came, and said, "Bertha, why do you come in this dress?" Placing her right elbow in the palm of her left hand and her index finger on her lip, in a bashful, coquettish way, she said, "I'm in mourning." I said, "For what?" She replied, "I expect I have lost my friend." I said to my companion, "This i

he absence of any information which would lead to any other conclusion, I shall hereafter call these forms spirits. Tha