[102] _Washington Daily Star_, 7 March, 1893, quoted in _The Medium and the Daybreak_, 7 April, 1893. [103] In the “educational” primers prepared by certain spiritists for use by children the story of the Fox Sisters is told in glowing colours to a point, but the history of their downfall is suppressed. [104] He died at Bedford, 5 September, 1892. His control was the spirit Imperator, who claimed to be the prophet Malachias. For a very full biography see Arthur Lillie’s _Modern Mystics and Modern Magic_. London. 1894. [105] For Mrs. Bassett see _The Medium_, 11 April and 18 April, 1873, pp. 174 and 182; for Miss Showers, _The Medium_, 8 May and 22 May, pp. 294 and 326. [106] _Medium and Daybreak_, 15 November, 1878, p. 730. [107] _L’Eclair_, 6 April, 1909. [108] Dr. Grasset, _L’Occultisme_, pp. 56, _sqq._; p. 424. [109] _Procès des Spirites_, 8vo. Paris. 1875. [110] _La Revue Spirite_ and _L’Echo du Mentalisme_, Nov., 1908. [111] Who apparently believes that Spiritism is authorized by the Scriptures, and that many of the prophets, nay, even Our Divine Lord Himself, were but mediums. [112] _Light._ Saturday, 21 February, 1925, p. 89. [113] Organized in 1882 for the scientific examination of “debatable phenomena.” [114] See the Report presented 11 May, 1922, and published by The Magic Circle, Anderton’s Hotel, Fleet Street. [115] _The Goligher Circle, May to August, 1921._ Experiences of E. E. Fournier d’Albe, D.SC. London, Watkins, 1922. [116] _The Classification of Psychic Phenomena_, by W. Loftus Hare. _The Occult Review_, July, 1924, p. 38. [117] Her real name appears to be Marthe Béraud. Professor Richet is satisfied that in his experiments with this medium at the Villa Carmen (Algiers) in 1905 genuine materialization was effected. [118] Who, as noted above, specializes in the Ouija-Board and Automatic Writing. [119] He has written such works as _The New Revelation_, and compiled _The Spiritualists’ Reader_, “A Collection of Spirit Messages from many sources, specially prepared for Short Readings.” [120] In all of whose documents the distinction is clearly drawn between legitimate scientific investigation and superstitious abuses. CHAPTER VII THE WITCH IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE The English theatre, in common with every other form of the world’s drama, had a religious, or even more exactly a liturgical, origin. At the Norman Conquest as the English monasteries began to be filled with cultured French scholars there is evidence that Latin dialogues, the legends of saints and martyrs, something after the fashion of Hrotsvitha’s comedies, which we do not imagine to have been a unique phenomenon, found their way here also, and from recitation to the representation of these was an easy and indeed inevitable step. For it is almost impossible to declaim without appropriate action. From the very heart of the liturgy itself arose the Mystery Play.