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{102} Sept. 18, vol. v., 1866.
{107a} See Colonel Yule's Marco Polo.
{107b} Quarterly Journal of Science, July, 1871.
{108a} Proceedings S. P. R., xix. 146.
{108b} North American Review, 1893.
{108c} Proceedings S. P. R., x. 45-100; xix. 147.
{109a} Incidents in my Life, i. 170.
{109b} A Paris, chez la Veuve du Carroy, 1621.
{110a} Folklore of China, 1876, p. 79.
{110b} Op. cit., p. 74.
{110c} Paris. Quarto. Black letter. 1528. The original is extremely rare. We quote from a copy once in the Tellier collection, reprinted in Recueil de Dissertations Anciennes et Nouvelles sur les Apparitions. Leloup: Avignon, 1751, vol. ii. pp.
1-87.
{112} Proceedings S. P. R., xix. 186. 'C.' is a Miss Davis, daughter of a gentleman occupying 'a responsible position as a telegraphist'. The date was 1888.
{114a} Satan's Invisible World Discovered. Edinburgh: Reid, 1685.
Pp. 67-69.
{114b} Ma.n.u.script 7170, A, de la Bibliotheque du Roi.
Dissertations, ut supra, vol. i. pp. 95-129.
{115} Dufresnoy, op. cit., i. 95-129.
{117} Compare Bastian, Mensch., ii. 393, cited by Mr. Tylor.
{118} De Materia Daemon. Isagoge, p. 539. Ap. Corn. Agripp., De Occult. Philosoph. Lyons, 1600.
{122} Aubrey gives a variant in his Miscellanies, on the authority of the Vicar of Barnstaple. He calls Fey 'Fry'.
{123a} The Devons.h.i.+re case, 'Story of a Something,' in Miss O'Neill's Devons.h.i.+re Idylls, is attested by a surviving witness.
{123b} Trials of Isobell Young, 1629, and of Jonet Thomson, Feb. 7, 1643. Darker Superst.i.tions of Scotland, p. 593.
{124} Witness Rev. E. T. Vaughan, King's Langley. 1884.
{125a} Segraisiana, p. 213.
{125b} Crookes's Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena usually called Spiritual. 86. London: Burns (second edition).
{126a} Satan's Invisible World Discovered, p. 75.
{126b} A New Confutation of Sadducism, p. 5, writ by Mr. Alexander Telfair, London, 1696.
{129} Primitive Culture, vol. i. 368; ii. 304.
{130} The reader may also consult Notes on the Spirit Basis of Belief and Custom, a rough draft printed for the Indian Government.
While rich in curious facts, the draft contains very little about 'manifestations,' except in 'possession'.
{131a} Gregory, Dialogues, iv. 39.
{131b} De Rerum Varietate, xvi. cap. xciii.
{132} De Praestigiis Daemon.
{133} Si fallere possunt, ut quis videre se credat, c.u.m videat revera extra se nihil: non poterunt fallere, ut credat quis se audire sonos, quos revera non audit? (p. 81).
{135} Proceedings S. P. R., xv. 42.
{137} There is one possible exception to this rule.
{139} S. P. R., viii. 81.
{140a} Geschichte des Neueren Occultismus, p. 451.
{140b} Opera, 1605.
{142} S. P. R., vi. 149.
{146} Proc. S. P. R., viii. 133.
{147} Proc. S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 269.
{149} This is rather overstated; there were knocks, and raps, and footsteps (Proc. S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 310).
{150} Proc. S. P. R., April, 1885, p. 144.
{151} To be frank, in a haunted house the writer did once see an appearance, which was certainly either the ghost or one of the maids; 'the Deil or else an outler quey,' as Burns says.
{153} London, 1881, pp. 184-185.
{156} S. P. R., xv. 64.
{158a} Proceedings S. P. R., xvi. 332.
{158b} Sights and Shadows, p. 60.
{165} British Chronicle, January 18, 1762.
{166} Annual Register.
