Materialized Apparitions

es, in the interest of the Committee on Psychical Research, was discussed, and it was considered desirable to make arra

o me by letter at Mrs. Fay's, on Thursday, before the séance held on that day. These conditions were very simple, and ought to have been satisfactory to any reasonable person. They were t

obably speak about it. This letter was a long one,-some four pages, written by a member of the Psychological Society, in reply to Mr. Savage. I placed it under a heavy music-box, within a few inches of my head, where I am certain it remained undisturbed until I took it away. Its con

to the cabinet; and while I was conversing with her, Auntie's voice broke in, saying,

er that I came on business. She asked, "What is it?" I replied that Auntie had requested me to meet her. She rose without a moment's hesitation, saying, "We will go t

sed by saying that she did not propose to submit her medium to such conditions as were required by the letter, at the same time expressing a willingness to do all she could for Mr. Savage personally. Bidding me Good-bye, she dematerialized directly in front of me, so near that I could have laid my hand upon her as she went down. Th

rol, but was not entranced, and talked freely with me about th

, showing quite as much individuality and intelligence as some of my acquaintances to whom forms sometimes appear,-per

omatons, and that our friends from the other side never take possession, or control them, as they would a trance-medium; that they are merely effigies,[B] or lay figures, built up to mock us, and play with the most sacred feelings of our natures; and, wha

a regret that my Psychical friends had shut themselves out from such evidence by requiring arrangements to which no intelligent control would submit. Here, under strictly t

f only a delusion; but those whose lives are rounded into a full consciousness of an individual existence may prefer to

ds of honest and intelligent persons are to be disregarded, we might as well abolish our courts. Ju

le he relates a séance with the Berry Sisters, in which he says that "a young female spirit came to him." The word spirit must have been a slip