Thus we have accounts of figures seen during the period from 1861 to 1875 by three different families in an old Elizabethan manor-house (_Proc. S.P.R._, vol. iii. p. 118); and in a quite modern house in the South of England various phantasmal figures were seen between 1882 and 1888 by two successive sets of occupants. (_Proc. S.P.R._, vol. vi. pp. 256 _et seq._[131]) FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 128: She was, however, unable to find it.] [Footnote 129: It should be explained that this account was written on a "census" form, in the limited space provided for answers to our printed questions.] [Footnote 130: See, for instance, Nos. 47, 75, 87, etc.] [Footnote 131: Those desiring to study further the evidence on this subject are referred to the paper on "Phantasms of the Dead," _Proc. S.P.R._, vol. iii., by Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, and the papers on "Recognised Apparitions occurring after Death," and on "Phantasms of the Dead," by Messrs. Gurney, Myers, and the present writer respectively, in Proc. v. and vi., and the "Record of a Haunted House," in Proc. viii. Many cases of the kind are also printed in the monthly journal of the Society; and there are one or two striking cases in the _Annales des Sciences Psychiques_.] CHAPTER XIV. ON CLAIRVOYANCE IN TRANCE. The word "clairvoyance" was used by the older mesmerists to denote somewhat heterogeneous phenomena. It was applied in the first place to a supposed faculty by which the subject was enabled to ascertain facts not within human knowledge,[132] and in the second place to a power of discerning facts within the knowledge of some living mind. Of "clairvoyance" in the first sense there is not at present so much evidence as need cause hesitation in appropriating the name for other uses; and it is obvious that if such a faculty could be shown to exist, a discussion of it would find no place in a work which treats only of the affection of one human mind by another. But we have abundant evidence of clairvoyance in the second sense, that is, of a form of telepathy in which the transmitted idea seems to reach the mind of the percipient no longer as the meagre result of a serious crisis, or of a direct and often prolonged effort of attention on the part of the agent, but spontaneously, with great fulness of detail, and often with remarkable ease and rapidity, as the outcome of a special receptivity on the part of the percipient. Such clairvoyance--and the word must be understood to include the impressions of other senses than sight--occurs in its most striking form with hypnotised percipients; and in the present chapter I propose to deal with results obtained in hypnotism and analogous states, reserving for the following chapter instances of what appears to be the same faculty occurring in the normal state.[133] MRS. PIPER.