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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
92
But
he
had
been
making
the
experiment
for
five
nights
previous,
including
the
Tuesday
of
Miss
---'s
letter.
Had
the
affair
been
a
hoax,
Miss
---
would
either
have
been
requested
by
him
to
re-write
her
letter,
putting
Friday
for
Tuesday,
or
what
is
simpler,
Mr.
Sparks
would
have
adopted
her
version
and
written
"Tuesday"
in
place
of
"Friday"
in
his
first
letter
to
Mr.
Gurney.
The
young
lady,
naturally,
requested
Mr.
Cleave
not
to
try
his
experiment
on
her
again.
A
similar
case
is
that
of
Mrs.
Russell,
who
tried
successfully,
when
awake
and
in
Scotland,
to
appear
to
one
of
her
family
in
Germany.
The
sister
corroborates
and
says,
"Pray
don't
come
appearing
to
me
again".
{91a}
These
spirits
of
the
living
lead
to
the
subject
of
spirits
of
the
dying.
No
kind
of
tale
is
so
common
as
that
of
dying
people
appearing
at
a
distance.
Hundreds
have
been
conscientiously
published.
{91b}
The
belief
is
prevalent
among
the
Maoris
of
New
Zealand,
where
the
apparition
is
regarded
as
a
proof
of
death.
{91c}
Now
there
is
nothing
in
savage
philosophy
to
account
for
this
opinion
of
the
Maoris.
A
man's
"spirit"
leaves
his
body
in
dreams,
savages
think,
and
as
dreaming
is
infinitely
more
common
than
death,
the
Maoris
should
argue
that
the
appearance
is
that
of
a
man's
spirit
wandering
in
his
sleep.
However,
they,
like
many
Europeans,
associate
a
man's
apparition
with
his
death.
Not
being
derived
from
their
philosophy,
this
habit
may
be
deduced
from
their
experience.
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