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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
78
Here
the
information
existed
in
one
living
mind,
the
mother's,
and
if
there
is
any
"mental
telegraphy,"
may
thence
have
been
conveyed
to
Mr.
F.
G.
Another
kind
of
cases
which
may
be
called
veracious,
occurs
when
the
ghost
seer,
after
seeing
the
ghost,
recognises
it
in
a
portrait
not
previously
beheld.
Of
course,
allowance
must
be
made
for
fancy,
and
for
conscious
or
unconscious
hoaxing.
You
see
a
spook
in
Castle
Dangerous.
You
then
recognise
the
portrait
in
the
hall,
or
elsewhere.
The
temptation
to
recognise
the
spook
rather
more
clearly
than
you
really
do,
is
considerable,
just
as
one
is
tempted
to
recognise
the
features
of
the
Stuarts
in
the
royal
family,
of
the
parents
in
a
baby,
or
in
any
similar
case.
Nothing
is
more
common
in
literary
ghost
stories
than
for
somebody
to
see
a
spectre
and
afterwards
recognise
him
or
her
in
a
portrait
not
before
seen.
There
is
an
early
example
in
Sir
Walter
Scott's
Tapestried
Chamber,
which
was
told
to
him
by
Miss
Anna
Seward.
Another
such
tale
is
by
Theophile
Gautier.
In
an
essay
on
Illusions
by
Mr.
James
Sully,
a
case
is
given.
A
lady
(who
corroborated
the
story
to
the
present
author)
was
vexed
all
night
by
a
spectre
in
armour.
Next
morning
she
saw,
what
she
had
not
previously
observed,
a
portrait
of
the
spectre
in
the
room.
Mr.
Sully
explains
that
she
had
seen
the
portrait
unconsciously,
and
dreamed
of
it.
He
adds
the
curious
circumstance
that
other
people
have
had
the
same
experience
in
the
same
room,
which
his
explanation
does
not
cover.
The
following
story
is
published
by
the
Society
for
Psychical
Research,
attested
by
the
seer
and
her
husband,
whose
real
names
are
known,
but
not
published.
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