{74} Story written by General Barter, 28th April, 1888. (S.P.R.)
Corroborated by Mrs. Barter and Mr. Stewart, to whom General Barter
told his adventure at the time.
{75} Statement by Mr. F. G., confirmed by his father and brother, who
were present when he told his tale first, in St. Louis. S.P.R.
Proceedings, vol. vi., p. 17.
{76} S.P.R., viii., p. 178.
{77} Mrs. M. sent the memorandum to the S.P.R. "March 13, 1886.
Have just seen visions on lawn--a soldier in general's uniform, a
young lady kneeling to him, 11.40 p.m."
{78} S.P.R., viii., p. 178. The real names are intentionally
reserved.
{80a} Corroborated by Mr. Elliot. Mrs. Elliot nearly fainted.
S.P.R., viii., 344-345.
{80b} Oddly enough, maniacs have many more hallucinations of hearing
than of sight. In sane people the reverse is the case.
{82} Anecdote by the lady. Boston Budget, 31st August, 1890.
S.P.R., viii., 345.
{85a} Tom Sawyer, Detective.
{85b} Phantasms of the Living, by Gurney and Myers.
{85c} The story is given by Mr. Mountford, one of the seers.
{86} Journal of Medical Science, April, 1880, p. 151.
{88} Catholic theology recognises, under the name of "Bilocation,"
the appearance of a person in one place when he is really in another.
{91a} Phantasms, ii., pp. 671-677.
{91b} Phantasms of the Living.
{91c} Mr. E. B. Tylor gives a Maori case in Primitive Culture.
Another is in Phantasms, ii., 557. See also Polack's New Zealand for
the prevalence of the belief.
{92} Gurney, Phantasms, ii., 6.
{93} The late Surgeon-Major Armand Leslie, who was killed at the
battle of El Teb, communicated the following story to the Daily
Telegraph in the autumn of 1881, attesting it with his signature.
{95a} This is a remarkably difficult story to believe. "The morning
bright and calm" is lit by the rays of the moon. The woman (a Mrs.
Gamp) must have rushed past Dr. Leslie. A man who died in Greece or
Russia "that morning" would hardly be arrayed in evening dress for
burial before 4 a.m. The custom of using goloshes as "hell-shoes"
(fastened on the Icelandic dead in the Sagas) needs confirmation. Men
are seldom buried in eye-glasses--never in tall white hats.--Phantasms
of the Living, ii., 252.
{95b} From a memorandum, made by General Birch Reynardson, of an oral
communication made to him by Sir John Sherbrooke, one of the two
seers.
{101} This is an old, but good story. The Rev. Thomas Tilson,
minister (non-conforming) of Aylesford, in Kent, sent it on 6th July,
1691, to Baxter for his Certainty of the World of Spirits. The woman
Mary Goffe died on 4th June, 1691. Mr. Tilson's informants were her
father, speaking on the day after her burial; the nurse, with two
corroborative neighbours, on 2nd July; the mother of Mary Goffe; the
minister who attended her, and one woman who sat up with her--all
"sober intelligent persons". Not many stories have such good evidence
in their favour.
{103} Phantasms, ii., 528.
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