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Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

"The Book of Dreams and Ghosts"


{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.


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