Telepathy, Genuine and FraudulentBaggally, W. W. (William Wortley)
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Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent
Baggally, W. W. (William Wortley)
Parapsychology -- Investigation; Telepathy
"DEAR SIR,--I received a letter from Miss H. A. Dallas,
telling me that you would like to meet us. Now, my dear sir,
we would be pleased to make your acquaintance, and have you
call for a visit, but if it is for any private show and to
be tried and judged if our work is, as we represent, 'two
minds with but a single thought,' I will have to say No. We
have done nothing since we arrived in London but have
callers to test and try us every day, from three to four
ladies and gentlemen. My wife and I agreed to all tests they
put to us, and all was quite satisfactory. Personally I do
not care, but it has been quite a strain on my wife. Should
you care to witness our show, you would be able to see us at
ten p.m. on the Alhambra stage, but if you care to call and
see us, and have a little talk, we both would be pleased to
meet you.--Trusting that I am understood, I remain, yours
sincerely,
(Signed) "JULIUS ZANCIG"
Although the contents of the above letter were of a discouraging nature,
I determined to strike the iron while it was hot; therefore, on the
evening of the same day I called, accompanied by my wife, at the flat
where the Zancigs resided. They were at the time partaking of their
evening meal. We apologized for our intrusion, but by the kind way that
they received us we were soon put at our ease. I informed Mr. Zancig
that I was much interested in telepathy, and that I had personally
carried out experiments in this branch of psychical research, and that I
was assured of the truth of its existence through the successes that I
had obtained.
Mr. and Mrs. Zancig impressed my wife and myself most favourably by
their unaffected and simple manner. After a conversation which lasted
about ten minutes, Mr. Zancig very kindly spontaneously offered to try
some experiments. I will now describe these. Madame Zancig went to the
other end of the room farthest away from where Mr. Zancig, my wife, and
I sat. She faced the wall with her back to us; Mr. Zancig then wrote
with a chalk a line of figures on a slate which he held in his left
hand, and called out the word "Ready." Madame Zancig immediately named
the figures correctly and in their proper order. The same kind of
experiment was tried successfully three times. The results might have
been due to telepathy, but I was not satisfied, as it could have been
possible that the figures were prearranged, or that Madame Zancig could
tell by the sound of the chalk what figures were being written. I also
had in my mind the fact that there is a method of communicating figures
by time-coding.
Mr. Zancig then asked me to write a double line of figures. I handed the
slate to him, and after he had called out "Ready" Madame Zancig
proceeded to cast them up correctly.
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