Sinclair, Mary Craig, 1883-1961; Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968; Telepathy; Telepathy -- Case studies
All this was wrong—so far. Number four was a table, and number seven was
the rear half of a cow. But now we come to number eleven, the plant
known as a “cat-tail,” which seems to resemble rather surprisingly the
lower of the two drawings in Figure 69a. My drawing is given as Figure
70, and the one Craig made for it is given as 70a.
[Illustration: Fig. 69a]
[Illustration: Fig. 70]
[Illustration: Fig. 70a]
Comment on the above read: “Very pointed. Am not able to see what. Dog’s
head?”
Drawing five was a large fish-hook; and this inspired the experimenter
to a discourse, as follows: “Dog wagging—see tail in air busy
wagging—jolly doggie—tail curled in air.” And then: “Now I see a cow. I
fear the elephant and chicken got me too sure of animals. But I see
these.”
Now, a big fish-hook looks not unlike a “tail curled in air.” But when
we come to number seven, we discover what Craig was apparently
anticipating. It is the drawing of what I have referred to as “the rear
half of a cow.” It is badly done, with a cow’s hoof, but I forgot what a
cow’s tail is like, and this tail that I drew would fit much better on a
“jolly doggy,” you must admit (Fig. 71):
[Illustration: Fig. 71]
Drawing number six was a sun, as children draw it, a circle with rays
going out all round. Craig wrote: “Setting sun and bird in sky. Big bird
on wing—seagull or wild goose.” This I called a partial success. Number
nine was the muzzle end of an old-style cannon, already reported in
Figures 46, 46a.
I conclude the study of this particular series with drawing thirteen, to
which was added the comment: “Think of a saucer, then of a cup. It’s
something in the kitchen. Too tired to see” (Figs. 72, 72a):
[Illustration: Fig. 72]
[Illustration: Fig. 72a]
In series fourteen, drawing three, Craig wrote: “Man running, can’t draw
it.” She drew as follows (Fig. 73a):
[Illustration: Fig. 73a]
Next came my drawing four, as follows (Fig. 73):
[Illustration: Fig. 73]
In series thirty-five I first drew a fire hydrant, and Craig wrote,
“Peafowl,” and added the following drawing, which certainly constitutes
a partial success (Figs. 74, 74a):
[Illustration: Fig. 74]
[Illustration: Fig. 74a]
My next drawing was the peafowl, as you see. For this Craig wrote:
“Peafowl again,” and apparently tried to draw the peafowl’s neck, and a
lot of those spots which I had forgotten are an appurtenance of peafowls
(Figs. 75, 75a):
[Illustration: Fig. 75]
[Illustration: Fig. 75a]
In series twenty-nine I drew an elevated railway. If you turn it upside
down, as I have done here, it looks like water and smokestacks. Anyhow,
Craig drew a steamboat (Figs. 76, 76a):
[Illustration: Fig. 76]
[Illustration: Fig. 76a]
And then came my next drawing—a steamboat! Craig wrote: “Smoke again,”
and drew the smoke and the stack (Figs. 77, 77a):
[Illustration: Fig. 77]
[Illustration: Fig. 77a]
She added two more drawings, which appear to be the wheel of the boat in
the water, and the smoke (Figs. 77b, 77c):
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