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
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15 |April 18| Janet | .. |Found asleep in 10 |
| | | | minutes. | 1
16 | " 19| Gibert | 4 P.M. |Found asleep 4.15. | 1
17 | " 20| do. | 8 P.M. |Made to come to his |
| | | | house. | 1
18 | " 21| do. | 5.50 P.M. |Asleep about 6.10: trance |
| | | | too tardy. | ?
19 | " 21| do. |11.35 P.M. |Attempt at trance during |
| | | | sleep. | 0
20 | " 22| do. | 11 A.M. |Asleep 11.25: trance too |
| | | | tardy. | ?
21 | " 22| do. | 9 P.M. |Comes to his house: |
| | | | leaves her house 9.15. | 1
22 | " 23| Janet | 4.30 P.M. |Found asleep 5.5, says |
| | | | she has slept since |
| | | | 4.30. | 1
23 | " 24| do. | 3 P.M. |Found asleep 3.30, says |
| | | | she has slept since 3.5. | 1
24 |May 5| do. | .. |Success--no details. | 1
25 | " 6| do. | .. |Success--no details. | 1
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| | | | | 18
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We have then in 25 trials 18 complete and 4 partial or doubtful
successes. In two of the latter Madame B. was found washing her hands
to ward off the trance, and in two others the trance supervened only
after an interval of twenty minutes or more, and under circumstances
which rendered it doubtful whether telepathy were the cause. It is
important to note that during these earlier visits of Madame B. to
Havre, about two months in all, she only once fell into ordinary sleep
during the daytime, and twice became spontaneously entranced; and that
she never left the house in the evenings except on the three occasions
(14, 17, 21), on which she did so in apparent response to a mental
suggestion. There is little ground, therefore, for attributing the
results above given to chance.
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