Prediction concerning the ship Staffordshire.--General Pierce's election foretold by Professor Anderson's glass bell.--False predictions of the "spirits."--Error committed by Professor Lester.--Suggestion of a lady to a sick friend.--Sentiments of Alexander Pope. 218 VISIONS, MIRACLES, AND WONDERS. Sights, sounds, signs, miracles, maps, drawings, hieroglyphics. --Talking cow in Maine.--Her prophecy.--Proposition for _another_ "NEW CHURCH."--Predictions concerning all other churches.-- Opinions three hundred years ago.--Fate of Galileo. 220 CLAIRVOYANT PHYSICIANS. Prescriptions from the dead.--Power of the imagination.--Wonderful efficacy of brown bread pills.--Singular cure of palsy, by Sir Humphrey Davy. 221 STYLE OF "SUPERNAL" COMPOSITIONS. Fishbough's new work.--Fancy-captivating publications.--Refined atheism.--Transcendental nonsense.--False communications relating to patriots, statesmen, orators, and divines.--Mountebank scenes of "psychology."--Testimony of A. J. Davis, upon the tricks of the spirit demonstrators.--Concealments, misstatements, and exaggerations. 223 MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA, WITH THEIR AGENTS OR CAUSES. Thumping noises in New Jersey.--Door opened as if struck by a mallet.--Great excitement.--Glass broken, &c.--Knockings heard in New Hackensack.--Pile of lumber shaken; tables, chairs, stand, and candlestick thrown about.--Bags of salt, tin ware, and cooking utensils thrown in a heap.--An English officer haunted by noises in the night.--Heavy marble top tables poising themselves on two legs.--Brass door knockers bewitched.--Commotion among crockery, tin ware, &c.--Firing a gun at noises in the walls. --Tearing up floor to get at the noises.--Suit brought for damages.--Bed of a sick girl raised.--Trembling of the house walls.--Singular pranks in a factory.--Jerking of the frames, and cylinder thrown at a distance.--Alarm and flight of the operatives.--A chest with three men, and a man on a tub, taken up by an invisible power.--A chair broken between two men's hands.--An image seated on a stool, clad in white.--Visions of beings like spirits.--Knockings on the walls, and noises in the air.--A lady suspended by the tips of the fingers, as a magnet suspends a piece of iron.--Electrical flashes from a lady's body.--Knockings made to be heard at a distance.--Quotation from a work by Rev. T. Hill, of Waltham.--Singular developments in New York.--Freaks of a knob of a door bell.--Fiery flashes, and fiery smacks, on kissing.--Blows in the mouth from a speaking tube.-- Account of two girls that could move tables without touching them. --Effects of storms on raising tables.--Electrical circles in Cincinnati.--Case of a lady in Strasburg.--Power of giving electrical shocks to persons at a distance.--Singular effects of the northern lights on a lady.