QUESTION 5. Doth not Sathan interpose in such Cases by many subtile unthought Insinuations, as to him who let the Fly, or Familiar, go out of the Box, and yet found the Fly of his own putting in, as serviceable as the other would have been? ANSWER. The Goodness of the Lyfe, and Designs of the ancient Prophets and Seers, was one of the best Prooffs of their Mission.[37] NOTE. In trying to collect evidence as to the Rerrick “evil spirit” from Kirk-Session Records, I have been most kindly assisted by the Rev. Mr. M‘Conachie, Minister of Rerrick. Mr. M‘Conachie finds that only two parishes in the Stewartry, Kells and Girthon, have records containing the years 1695, 1696. The records of Rerrick do not go so far back. We are therefore left to the pamphlet of 1696, by Telfair, which is an unusually business-like statement, the names of attesting witnesses being added in the marginal notes. For phenomena singularly similar to those of Rerrick, _Obeah_, by Mr. H. J. Bell, may be consulted. (_Obeah_, Sampson Low & Co., London, 1889, p. 93.) NOTES. INTRODUCTION. _Note_ (_a_), p. xvi.—“The Psychical Society.” The Psychical Society, as far as the writer is aware has not examined officially the old accounts of the phenomena which it investigates at present. The Catalogue of the Society’s Library, however, proves that it does not lack the materials. _Note_ (_b_), p. xxx.—“Their speech is a kind of whistling.” That the voice of spirits is a kind of whistling, twittering, or chirping, is a very widely diffused and ancient belief. The ghosts in Homer twitter like bats; in New Caledonia an English settler found that he could scare the natives from a piece of ground by whistling there at night. Mr. Samuel Wesley says, “I followed the noise into almost every room in the house, both by day and by night, with lights and without, and have sat alone for some time, and, when I heard the noise, spoke to it to tell me what it was, but never heard any articulate voice, and only once or twice two or three feeble squeaks, a little louder than the chirping of a bird, and not like the noise of rats, which I have often heard” (_Memoirs of the Wesley Family_, p. 164). Professor Alexander mentions the “pecular whistling sound” at some manifestations in Rio Janeiro as “rather frequent” (_Proc. S. P. R._, xix. 180). Here children were the mediums; how did they get the idea of the traditional whistle? See also the following note. _Note_ (_c_), p. xl.—“Not long after the Spanish conquest of Peru.” The phenomena alluded to here are said to have occurred in 1549. The evidence is a mere report by Cieza de Leon, who does not pretend to have been an eye-witness. But, as Mr. Clements Markham, Cieza’s editor, remarks, the phenomena are analogous to those of spiritualism. At the very least, we find a belief in this kind of manifestation at a remote date, and in an outlandish place. Cieza says:[38]