Cock Lane and Common-Sense

29

The Natural and Morall History of the East and West Indies, p. 566, London, 1604.

30

February 9, 1872. Quoted by Mr. Tylor, in Primitive Culture, ii. 39, 1873.

31

Revue des Deux Mondes, 1856, tome i. p. 853.

32

Hallucinations, English translation, p. 182, London, 1859.

33

Laws, xi.

34

Records of the Past, iv. 134-136.

35

The references are to Parthey’s edition, Berlin, 1857.

36

και λεyομεναι αναyκαι θεων, 4, 3.

37

All are, for Porphyry, ‘phantasmogenetic agencies’.

38

Jean Bréhal, par P.P. Bélon et Balme, Paris, s. a., p. 105.

39

Procès de Condemnation, i. 75.

40

Appended to Beaumont’s work on Spirits, 1705.

41

See Mr. Lillie’s Modern Mystics, and, better, Mr. Myers, in Proceedings S. P. R., Jan., 1894.

42

Origen, or whoever wrote the Philosophoumena, gives a recipe for producing a luminous figure on a wall. For moving lights, he suggests attaching lighted tow to a bird, and letting it loose. Maury translates the passages in La Magie, pp. 58-59. Spiritualists, of course, will allege that the world-wide theory of spectral lights is based on fact, and that the hallucinations are not begotten by subjective conditions, but by a genuine ‘phantasmogenetic agency’. Two men of science, Baron Schrenk-Notzing, and Dr. Gibotteau, vouch for illusions of light accompanying attempts by living agents to transfer a hallucinatory vision of themselves to persons at a distance (Journal S. P. R., iii. 307; Proceedings, viii. 467). It will be asserted by spiritualists that disembodied agencies produce the same effect in a higher degree.

43

θορυβωδη μεν φερομενα τα ενυλα.

44

ηνικα αν αμαρτημα τι συμβαινη περι την θεουρyικην τεχνην.

45

Damascius, ap. Photium.

46

παθη εκ μικρων αιθυyματων εyειρομενα.

47

Life of Hugh Macleod (Noble, Inverness). As an example of the growth of myth, see the version of these facts in Fraser’s Magazine for 1856. Even in a sermon preached immediately after the event, it was said that the dreamer found the pack by revelation of his dream!

48

iii. 2. δοιζομενου εν τω εισιεναι.

49

Greek Papyri in the British Museum; edited by F. G. Kenyon, M.A., London, 1893.

50

See notice in Classical Review, February, 1894.

51

See oracles in Eusebius, Praep. Evang., v. 9. The medium was tied up in some way, he had to be unloosed and raised from the ground. The inspiring agency, in a hurry to be gone, gave directions for the unbinding. παυεο δη προφρων οαρων, αναπαυε δε φωτα ραμνων εκλυων πολιον τυπον, ηδ απο yυιων Νειλωην οθονην χερσιν στιβαραις απαειρας. The binding of the Highland seer in a bull’s hide is described by Scott in the Lady of the Lake. A modern Highland seer has ensconced himself in a boiler! The purpose is to concentrate the ‘force’.

52

Praep. Evang., v. 8.

53

Ibid., v. 15, 3.