Reginald Scot on Protestant expulsion of Ghosts. His boast
premature. Savage hauntings. Red Indian example. Classical cases.
Petrus Thyraeus on Haunted Houses. His examples from patristic
literature. Three species of haunting spirits. Demons in
disguises. Hallucinations, visual, auditory, and tactile. Are the
sounds in Haunted Houses real or hallucinatory? All present do not
always hear them. Interments in houses to stop hauntings. Modern
example. The Restoration and Scepticism. Exceptional position of
Dr. Johnson. Frequency of Haunted Houses in modern Folklore.
Researches of the S. P. R. Failure of the Society to see Ghosts.
Uncertain behaviour of Ghosts. The Society need a 'seer' or
'sensitive' comrade. The 'type' or normal kind of Haunted Houses.
Some natural explanations. Historical continuity of type. Case of
Sir Walter Scott. A haunted curacy. Modern instances. Miss
Morton's case: a dumb ghost. Ghost, as is believed, of a man of
letters. Mr. Harry's ghost raises his mosquito curtains. Columns
of light. Mr. Podmore's theory. Hallucinations begotten by natural
causes are 'telepathically' transferred, with variations, to
strangers at a distance. Example of this process. Incredulity of
Mr. Myers. The spontaneous phenomena reproduced at 'seances'. A
ghost who followed a young lady. Singular experience of the writer
in Haunted Houses. Experience negative. Theory of 'dreams of the
dead'. Difficulties of this theory; physical force exerted in
dreams. Theory of Mr. James Sully. His unscientific method and
carelessness as to evidence. Reflections.
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