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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
201
On
24th
January
the
doctor
abandoned
the
hypothesis
of
electricity,
because
the
noises
kept
time
to
profane
but
not
to
sacred
music.
A
Tartar
hymn
by
a
Tartar
servant,
an
Islamite,
had
no
accompaniment,
but
the
Freischutz
was
warmly
encored.
This
went
beyond
the
most
intelligent
spontaneous
exercises
of
electricity.
Questions
were
asked
of
the
agencies,
and
to
the
interrogation,
"Are
you
a
devil?"
a
most
deafening
knock
replied.
"We
all
jumped
backwards."
Now
comes
a
curious
point.
In
the
Wesley
and
Tedworth
cases,
the
masters
of
the
houses,
like
the
cure
of
Cideville
(1851),
were
at
odds
with
local
"cunning
men".
Mr.
Shchapoff's
fiend
now
averred
that
he
was
"set
on"
by
the
servant
of
a
neighbouring
miller,
with
whom
Mr.
Shchapoff
had
a
dispute
about
a
mill
pond.
This
man
had
previously
said,
"It
will
be
worse;
they
will
drag
you
by
the
hair".
And,
indeed,
Mrs.
Shchapoff
was
found
in
tears,
because
her
hair
had
been
pulled.
{205}
Science
again
intervened.
A
section
of
the
Imperial
Geographical
Society
sent
Dr.
Shustoff,
Mr.
Akutin
(a
Government
civil
engineer),
and
a
literary
gentleman,
as
a
committee
of
inquiry
appointed
by
the
governor
of
the
province.
They
made
a
number
of
experiments
with
Leyden
jars,
magnets,
and
so
forth,
with
only
negative
results.
Things
flew
about,
both
from,
and
towards
Mrs.
Shchapoff.
Nothing
volatile
was
ever
seen
to
begin
its
motion,
though,
in
March,
1883,
objects
were
seen,
by
a
policeman
and
six
other
witnesses,
to
fly
up
from
a
bin
and
out
of
a
closed
cupboard,
in
a
house
at
Worksop.
{206}
Mr.
Akutin,
in
Mrs.
Shchapoff's
bedroom,
found
the
noises
answer
questions
in
French
and
German,
on
contemporary
politics,
of
which
the
lady
of
the
house
knew
nothing.
Lassalle
was
said
to
be
alive,
Mr.
Shchapoff
remarked,
"What
nonsense!"
but
Mr.
Akutin
corrected
him.
The
bogey
was
better
informed.
The
success
of
the
French
in
the
great
war
was
predicted.
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