Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathyPodmore, Frank
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Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Podmore, Frank
Apparitions; Telepathy
(10) _March_ 15_th._ 9-10. ?_Faint Henselt._ (Miss X. writes:--"I
remember that when D. showed me these entries I was specially
interested. I was practising at the time some music of Henselt's
she had never heard, and was playing this on all five occasions.
D. notes it on the first three vaguely as 'Music,' something which
she did not recognise. On the 14th I played it over to her, and
afterwards she recognised it imperfectly. I was practising it for
her, knowing she would like it, so that she was much in my mind at
the time.")
The following entries were made whilst D. and X. were in different and
distant counties:--
(11) _August_ 15_th. Hellers_, 9.10-25. (Correct.)
(12) _August_ 17_th. Slumber Song_, 7.35-50. (Correct. D. wrote of
her two experiences, and X. read the letter aloud to her hostess,
who remembered that X. had actually played the music named above at
the time referred to.)
(13) _September_ 14_th. Hallé_, 9 A.M. (Incorrect. X. was not
playing.)
(14) _November_ 18_th. Chopin Dead March_, _War March Athalie_,
7.15-8 P.M.
(15) _November_ 25_th. Lieder_, 7.30.
(16) _November_ 26_th. Lied, never gets finished._ 5.15-20.
(Miss X. writes:--"On each of the above three occasions D. asked
me next day what I had played and found she was right. My playing
of the Lied on November 26th was interrupted by the arrival
of visitors, and the unfinished air naturally haunted me. D.
writes:--On the day in question H. and I were together. I said
to her that I could hear you [Miss X.] playing--a Lied we both
associated with you--but that you never got beyond a certain part,
which seemed to be repeated. H. replied, 'It is strange you should
say that. I can't _hear_ her, but I have been seeing her at the
piano for some minutes.' H. corroborates this.")
It will thus be seen that in these 16 cases there were only two
instances (1 and 13) in which D.'s impression failed to correspond with
the facts. The remaining four entries (out of 20 recorded beforehand)
relate to impressions which also appear to have corresponded with the
event, but the degree of correspondence is more difficult to estimate.
In Miss X.'s own diary there are 55 entries during this period,
of which 27 were made before the event was known. Of these 3 are
failures, and in two other cases it is doubtful whether the impression
was actually telepathic, or whether the coincidence should not be
attributed to accident. In the other 22 cases of correspondence,
presumably telepathic, Miss X. was sometimes the agent, sometimes the
percipient. The impressions relate to events of various kinds, such as
meeting particular persons, receiving letters, and playing music. Of
the veridical impressions four were visual and one was a dream.[67]
No. 34.--From M. J. CH. ROUX.
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