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
_Next object--a playing card with a blue anchor painted on it
slantwise instead of pips._--No contact at all this time, but
another lady, Miss R----d, who had entered the room, assisted Mr.
B. and Miss E. as agents. "Is it an anchor? ... a little on the
slant." (Do you see any colour?) "Colour is black.... It's a nicely
drawn anchor." When asked to draw she sketched part of it, but had
evidently half forgotten it, and not knowing the use of the cross
arm, she could only indicate that there was something more there
but she couldn't remember what. Her drawing had the right slant
exactly.
_Another object--two pairs of coarse lines crossing; drawn in red
chalk_, and set up at some distance from agents. No contact. "I
only see lines crossing." She saw no colour. She afterwards drew
them quite correctly, but very small.
[Illustration: ORIGINALS.]
[Illustration: REPRODUCTION.]
_Double object._--It was now that I arranged the double object
between Miss R----d and Miss E., who happened to be sitting nearly
facing one another. [See _Nature,_ June 12th, 1884.] The drawing
was a square on one side of the paper, a cross on the other. Miss
R----d looked at the side with the square on it. Miss E. looked at
the side with the cross. Neither knew what the other was looking
at--nor did the percipient know that anything unusual was being
tried. Mr. Birchall was silently asked to take off his attention
and he got up and looked out of window before the drawings were
brought in, and during the experiment. There was no contact. Very
soon Miss R. said, "I see things moving about.... I seem to see two
things.... I see first one up there, and then one down there.... I
don't know which to draw.... I can't see either distinctly." (Well,
anyhow, draw what you have seen.) She took off the bandage and drew
first a square, and then said, "Then there was the other thing as
well ... afterwards they seemed to go into one," and she drew a
cross inside the square from corner to corner, adding afterwards,
"I don't know what made me put it inside."
No. 7.--By HERR MAX DESSOIR.
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