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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
293
{31}
Perhaps
among
such
papers
as
the
Casket
Letters,
exhibited
to
the
Commission
at
Westminster,
and
"tabled"
before
the
Scotch
Privy
Council.
{35a}
To
Joseph
himself
she
bequeathed
the
ruby
tortoise
given
to
her
by
his
brother.
Probably
the
diamonds
were
not
Rizzio's
gift.
{35b}
Boismont
was
a
distinguished
physician
and
"Mad
Doctor,"
or
"Alienist".
He
was
also
a
Christian,
and
opposed
a
tendency,
not
uncommon
in
his
time,
as
in
ours,
to
regard
all
"hallucinations"
as
a
proof
of
mental
disease
in
the
"hallucinated".
{39a}
S.P.R.,
v.,
324.
{39b}
Ibid.,
324.
{42}
Proceedings
of
the
Society
for
Psychical
Research,
vol.
v.,
pp.
324,
325.
{43}
Proceedings,
S.P.R.,
vol.
xi.,
p.
495.
{45a}
Signed
by
Mr.
Cooper
and
the
Duchess
of
Hamilton.
{45b}
See
Galton,
Inquiries
into
Human
Faculty,
p.
91.
{48}
Proceedings,
S.P.R.,
vol.
xi.,
p.
522.
{50}
The
case
was
reported
in
the
Herald
(Dubuque)
for
12th
February,
1891.
It
was
confirmed
by
Mr.
Hoffman,
by
Mr.
George
Brown
and
by
Miss
Conley,
examined
by
the
Rev.
Mr.
Crum,
of
Dubuque.--Proceedings,
S.P.R.,
viii.,
200-205.
Pat
Conley,
too,
corroborated,
and
had
no
theory
of
explanation.
That
the
girl
knew
beforehand
of
the
dollars
is
conceivable,
but
she
did
not
know
of
the
change
of
clothes.
{56a}
Told
by
the
nobleman
in
question
to
the
author.
{56b}
The
author
knows
some
eight
cases
among
his
friends
of
a
solitary
meaningless
hallucination
like
this.
{58}
As
to
the
fact
of
such
visions,
I
have
so
often
seen
crystal
gazing,
and
heard
the
pictures
described
by
persons
whose
word
I
could
not
doubt,
men
and
women
of
unblemished
character,
free
from
superstition,
that
I
am
obliged
to
believe
in
the
fact
as
a
real
though
hallucinatory
experience.
Mr.
Clodd
attributes
it
to
disorder
of
the
liver.
If
no
more
were
needed
I
could
"scry"
famously!
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