“On another occasion a heavy table was raised to the ceiling, in full light, _while I held the feet and hands of the medium_. “At another time the table raised itself above the floor, without any one touching it, but under conditions I had previously imposed in such a manner as to render the proof of the fact incontestable.” (_Crookes._) The phenomena observed in this class of experiments belong to those of _movement without contact_. Although these are difficult to obtain, I have noticed them several times; I have seen, in my own home, a massive table raised some distance from the floor ten or fifteen seconds after all contact had ceased. Dr. Gibier had the advantage of obtaining complete levitation and seeing the table _turn and touch the ceiling with its four feet_, under the mediumistic influence of Mr. Slade. The Doctor affirms this fact in his own book on the subject. In the trial of August 31st, 1591, a phenomenon similar to the one narrated befell Francoise Fontaine, _i.e._, the fall of an iron door on the unfortunate girl; the elevation in the air of a washtub and its being emptied in the presence of the jailer and the prisoner Aufrenille. Francois Fontaine was evidently a _medium_ with _psychic effects_. CLASS VI.—_Raising human beings in the air._ “This phenomenon has taken place in my presence four times, although in obscurity. The conditions under which these movements were performed, however, were completely satisfactory; but the ocular demonstration of such a thing is necessary to prevent the effects of our preconceived opinions; for example, upon that which is _naturally possible or impossible_, I shall only mention here cases in which the deductions of reason have been affirmed by the sense of vision. “I saw, one day, in the quality of spectator, a chair on which a lady was seated raised from the floor several inches. “On another occasion, in order to avoid being suspected of producing the phenomenon by artificial means, the lady knelt on the chair, so that the four legs of the piece of furniture were visible to every eye; then the chair was lifted from the floor three inches, remaining suspended in the air for ten seconds, when it slowly descended to the floor again. “Another time, but separately, two children were raised to the ceiling in their chairs, under a full glare of light, under conditions entirely satisfactory to me, for I was on my knees and attentively watched the feet of the chairs in order to see that no one touched them. “The most remarkable examples of levitation I have observed have taken place with Mr. Home. On three occasions I have seen him lifted to the ceiling of the room. On the first occasion he was seated in a chair, the second time he was kneeling on a chair, and the third experiment he stood on the chair. In all these instances I had every facility for examining the phenomena at the moment they occurred.