Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern SpiritualismPutnam, Allen
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Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism
Putnam, Allen
Spiritualism; Witchcraft -- New England
"At one time, in Cincinnati, although three miles away, I heard my
landlady say to her daughter, after I had been boarding with them a
week, 'I don't like that man--he is _not_ all right;' and went on to
tell her impressions, what she thought I was, which it is not
necessary to repeat. At first I felt indignant, forgetting, for the
moment, I was three miles away. I finally concluded to say nothing
about it when I went home at night, as I thought at first of doing,
else they might think I was wrong in some way, as they were both
members of the M. E. Church. But, when I got home, having a good
opportunity, I told the daughter word for word what her mother had
said about me, and also her response to her mother after she (the
mother) had got through berating me--which was, 'What do you mean?'
and the mother's answer to her exclamation, 'I mean just as I say.' I
requested the daughter not to say anything to the mother, as it would
do no good. But in the course of the following day the mother got
speaking of me again in much the same strain, when the daughter could
not resist the temptation, and told her to be careful what she said;
and then told her what I had said. The mother was thunderstruck, and
after a moment said, 'He is a devil.' I happened to be in a condition
such that I heard the mother's response. This I told to the daughter
that evening. Now, if I had had a thought that the mother entertained
such feelings toward me, I might have attributed it to the workings of
my own mind. But as I thought they had diametrically the opposite
opinion, I concluded that it was another case of the inner hearing.
"Now, if you can make use of this, or a part of it, you are welcome
to do so. Should you desire any other cases, I can furnish many.
"With high considerations I remain,
"D. C. DENSMORE."
The writer of the above, when in conversation with me in my own study,
incidentally dropped a word which intimated that his inner ear was
sometimes receptive of utterances put forth by embodied men and women,
who, at the time, were far away from him. In response to my expressed wish
to know whether such was the fact, he detailed a number of cases in which
he had had such experience; I then asked him to give me one or two of
them, briefly, on paper. That request shortly drew forth the foregoing
letter.
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