Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy — John Shaqi
Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathyPodmore, Frank
Philosophy
Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy
Podmore, Frank
Apparitions; Telepathy
Experiments in the transference of pains are not attended with the
same difficulties, nor open to the same evidential objections; and
some interesting trials of this kind with one of the same percipients,
Miss R., met with a fair amount of success. The experiments were
carried on at intervals, interspersed with experiments of other kinds,
by Mr. Guthrie at Liverpool during nine months in 1884 and 1885. The
percipient on each occasion was blindfolded and seated with her back
towards the rest of the party, who each pinched or otherwise injured
themselves in the same part of the body at the same time. The agents
in these experiments--the whole series of which is here recorded--were
three or more of the following:--Mr. Guthrie, Professor Herdman, Dr.
Hicks, Dr. Hyla Greves, Mr. R. C. Johnson, F.R.A.S., Mr. Birchall, Miss
Redmond, and on one occasion another lady. The results are given in the
following table:--
No. 2.--BY MR. GUTHRIE AND OTHERS.
1.--Back of left hand pricked. Rightly localised. 2.--Lobe of left
ear pricked. Rightly localised. 3.--Left wrist pricked. "Is it
in the left hand?" pointing to the back near the little finger.
4.--Third finger of left hand tightly bound round with wire. A
lower joint of that finger was guessed. 5.--Left wrist scratched
with pins. "Is it in the left wrist, like being scratched?"
6.--Left ankle pricked. Rightly localised.
7.--Spot behind left ear pricked. No result.
8.--Right knee pricked. Rightly localised.
9.--Right shoulder pricked. Rightly localised.
10.--Hands burned over gas. "Like a pulling pain ... then tingling,
like cold and hot alternately," localised by gesture only.
11.--End of tongue bitten. "Is it the lip or the tongue?"
12.--Palm of left hand pricked. "Is it a tingling pain in the left
hand here?" placing her finger on the palm of the left hand.
13.--Back of neck pricked. "Is it a pricking of the neck?"
14.--Front of left arm above elbow pricked. Rightly localised.
15.--Spot just above left ankle pricked. Rightly localised.
16.--Spot just above right wrist pricked. "I am not quite sure, but
I feel a pain in the right arm, from the thumb upwards to above the
wrist."
17.--Inside of left ankle pricked. Outside of left ankle guessed.
18.--Spot beneath right collar-bone pricked. The exactly
corresponding spot on the left side guessed.
19.--Back hair pulled. No result.
20.--Inside of right wrist pricked. Right foot guessed.
(_Proc. S.P.R._, vol. iii. pp. 424-452.)
_Transference of Sounds._
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