Produced by Bryan Ness, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Illustration: THE PAD THAT "BLINDFOLDS" THE YOGI The above is a photograph of the actual porous plaster and pads produced by YOGA RAMA as a means of "blindfolding." The plaster is seen exactly as it was when taken off by Mr. WILLIAM MARRIOTT. It will be seen that the pads have shifted, allowing comparatively clear vision with one eye. The tissue paper, making the plaster non-adhesive, will also be noticed. [_Page 52_] TELEPATHY GENUINE AND FRAUDULENT BY W. W. BAGGALLY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WITH A PREFACE BY SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S. METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _First Published in 1917_ PREFATORY NOTE My friend, Mr. W. W. Baggally, an experienced investigator of supernormal phenomena, has set down some of his experiences in connexion with the subject of Telepathy, and I heartily commend his book to the public as the record of a careful, conscientious, and exceptionally skilled and critical investigator. It would be difficult to find anyone more competent by training and capacity to examine into the genuineness of these subtle and elusive phenomena, which yet are of the utmost importance in the development of psychological science. Telepathy, or the direct action of mind on mind apart from the ordinary channels of sense, opens a new chapter; it is not a coping-stone completing an erection, but a foundation-stone on which to build. OLIVER J. LODGE CONTENTS PART I GENUINE TELEPATHY PAGE Experimental Telepathy 1 Spontaneous Telepathy 18 Telepathy between Human Beings and Animals 30 PART II FRAUDULENT TELEPATHY Accounts of Cases 35 Description of Various Methods used by Public Performers for effecting their So-called Transmission of Thought 57 PART III THE ZANCIGS Public Experiments 68 Private Experiments 70 Experiments before Committees 82 Importance of establishing Genuine Telepathy as a Scientific Fact 92 TELEPATHY PART I GENUINE TELEPATHY