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modern evidence, by the world-wide prevalence of crystal-gazing in the ethnographic region. But the discovery of this prevalence had not been made, to my knowledge, before modern instances induced me to notice the circumstances, sporadically recorded in books of travel. The phenomena are certainly of a kind to encourage the savage theory of the wandering soul. How else, thinkers would say, can the seer visit the distant place or person, and correctly describe men and scenes which, in the body, he never saw? Or they would encourage the Polynesian belief that the 'spirit' of the thing or person looked for is suspended by a god over the water, crystal, blood, ink, or whatever it may be. Thus, to anthropologists, the discovery of crystal-gazing as a thing widely diffused and still flourishing ought to be grateful, however much they may blame my childish credulity. I may add that I have no ground to suppose that crystal-gazing will ever be of practical service to the police or to persons who have lost articles of portable property. But I have no objection to experiments being made at Scotland Yard.[20] [Footnote 1: Information, with a photograph of the stones, from a correspondent in West Maitland, Australia.] [Footnote 2: _Report Ethnol. Bureau_, 1887-88, p. 460; vol. ii. p. 69. Captain Bourke's volume on _The Medicine Men of the Apaches_ may also be consulted.] [Footnote 3: Fitzroy, _Adventure_, vol. ii. p. 389.] [Footnote 4: _L'Histoire de la grand Ile Madagascar_, par le Sieur de Flacourt. Paris, 1661, ch. 76. Veue de deux Navires de France predite par les Negres, avant que l'on en peust scavoir des Nouvelles, &c.] [Footnote 5: _Religion of the Amazulu_, p. 341.] [Footnote 6: _J.A.I_., November 1894, p. 155. Ryckov is cited; _Zhurnal_, p. 86.] [Footnote 7: _Rites and Laws of the Yncas_, Christoval de Molina, p. 12.] [Footnote 8: See Miss X's article, S.P.R. _Proceedings_, v. 486.] [Footnote 9: Op. cit. v. 505.] [Footnote 10: If any reader wishes to make experiments, he, or she, should not be astonished if the first crystal figure represents 'the sheeted dead,' or a person ill in bed. For some reason, or no reason, this is rather a usual prelude, signifying nothing.] [Footnote 11: Sunday afternoon. It is not implied that the pictures on Friday were prophetic. Probably Miss Rose saw what Miss Angus had seen by aid of 'suggestion.'] [Footnote 12: Miss Angus could not be sure of the colour of the
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