"7. M. Liégeois wrote the word _mariage_, Mdlle. M. then wrote 'Monsieur.' Then she said 'Decanter,--no--picture--no.' [What is the letter?] 'It is an _l_--no, it is an _m_.' Then after thinking for some minutes, 'There is an _i_ in the word, an _a_ after the _m_--a _g_--another _a_--an _e_--there are six letters--no--seven.' When she had found all the letters and their places, _ma iage_, she could not find the letter _r_. After a few minutes it was suggested to her that she should try combinations with the different consonants, and finally she wrote _mariage_." [Further experiments were made by Dr. Liébeault, in conjunction with M. Stanislas de Guaita, on the 9th January 1886. The subject in this case was Mademoiselle Louise L., who was hypnotised by Dr. Liébeault. The first two experiments, which are not quoted here, suggest lip-reading or unconscious audition as a possible explanation; but the third experiment of this series and the two subsequent trials with Mdlle. Camille Simon present interesting illustrations of a telepathic hallucination superimposed upon a basis of reality.] "3. Dr. Liébeault, in order that no hint should be given even in a whisper, wrote on a piece of paper, 'Mademoiselle, on waking, will see her black hat transformed into a red one.' The paper was first passed round to all the witnesses, then MM. Liébeault and De Guaita placed their hands silently on the subject's forehead, mentally formulating the sentence agreed upon. After being told she would see something unusual in the room, the young woman was awakened. Without a moment's hesitation she fixed her eyes upon the hat, and with a burst of laughter exclaimed that it was not her hat, she would have none of it. It was the same shape certainly, but this farce had lasted long enough--we must really give her back her own. ['Come now, what difference do you see?'] 'You know quite well. You have eyes like me.' ['Well what?'] We had to press her for some time before she would say what change had come over her hat; surely we were making fun of her. At last she said, 'You can see for yourselves that it is red.' As she refused to take it we were forced to put an end to her hallucination by telling her that her hat would presently resume its usual colour. The doctor breathed on it, and when it became, in her eyes, her own again, she consented to take it back. Directly afterwards she remembered nothing of her hallucination.... "Nancy, 9th January 1886. "Signed, A. A. LIÉBEAULT. STANISLAS DE GUAITA."[30] * * * * *