The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

{76} S.P.R., viii., p. 178. {77} Mrs. M. sent the memorandum to the S.P.R. "March 13, 1886. Have just seen visions on lawn--a soldier in general's uniform, a young lady kneeling to him, 11.40 p.m." {78} S.P.R., viii., p. 178. The real names are intentionally reserved. {80a} Corroborated by Mr. Elliot. Mrs. Elliot nearly fainted. S.P.R., viii., 344-345. {80b} Oddly enough, maniacs have many more hallucinations of hearing than of sight. In sane people the reverse is the case. {82} Anecdote by the lady. Boston Budget, 31st August, 1890. S.P.R., viii., 345. {85a} Tom Sawyer, Detective. {85b} Phantasms of the Living, by Gurney and Myers. {85c} The story is given by Mr. Mountford, one of the seers. {86} Journal of Medical Science, April, 1880, p. 151. {88} Catholic theology recognises, under the name of "Bilocation," the appearance of a person in one place when he is really in another. {91a} Phantasms, ii., pp. 671-677. {91b} Phantasms of the Living. {91c} Mr. E. B. Tylor gives a Maori case in Primitive Culture. Another is in Phantasms, ii., 557. See also Polack's New Zealand for the prevalence of the belief. {92} Gurney, Phantasms, ii., 6. {93} The late Surgeon-Major Armand Leslie, who was killed at the battle of El Teb, communicated the following story to the Daily Telegraph in the autumn of 1881, attesting it with his signature. {95a} This is a remarkably difficult story to believe. "The morning bright and calm" is lit by the rays of the moon. The woman (a Mrs. Gamp) must have rushed past Dr. Leslie. A man who died in Greece or Russia "that morning" would hardly be arrayed in evening dress for burial before 4 a.m. The custom of using goloshes as "hell-shoes" (fastened on the Icelandic dead in the Sagas) needs confirmation. Men are seldom buried in eye-glasses--never in tall white hats.--Phantasms of the Living, ii., 252.