t of the glen--Ballechin cottage--(there is no
reason for not using the name except that B---- is shorter than
Ballechin; indeed the public and the Perthshire police should combine
to clear the neighbourhood of the gang who have troubled a charming
country house)--was once a place for retreat for nuns. The fact was not
known to Miss Freer and her friends until several visions of nuns had
been seen in the glen.[18]

[Footnote 18: "Haunting of B---- House," p. 136.]

The poor religious women, like the priests, must have been a favourite
prey of the hypnotists.

The writer believes that the late Cardinal Manning approved of religious
ladies residing with their families and carrying on works of charity, a
less wretched life than the usual nun's life often unavoidably must be.
English Catholics have not been subjected to the terrors of a _casa de
exercitios_ such as broke the courage of Mrs. Grahame's spinster
friend.[19] It must have been extremely repulsive to the feelings of a
man like Bishop Guerrero, and doubtless did not continue to exist long
even in remote Chile.

[Footnote 19: Grahame's "Chile."]

But subdued in spirit as they are, the attacks of hypnotists would be
terribly felt by most nuns.

Father H.'s apparition was seen by Miss Langton in a dream or vision.
She recognised him when she met him three months later; he may have been
shadowed by some of the hypnotists for purposes of information; and the
idea that he should be begged to aid in blessing the house and banning
the haunters, may have been a thought transferred by a hypnotist to Miss
Freer, who is liable to thought transfer, and is a good transferrer
herself. Why should not a nun's apparition be transferred as was Father
H.'s (to Miss Langton)?

It appears that valiant resistance can inflict this possession upon
hypnotists as well as the horrors of a hard and disgusting victory do.

Perhaps the Scin-laeca of Bulwer's "Harold," the apparition of Cerdic,
haunted the imaginations of generations of magicians. These were possibly
Celts; only one witch-rune on a Saxon sword was found; that was in the
Isle of Wight. It was, Professor Stephens said, a solitary instance, as
the brave Germans thought magic the art of a coward. The hypnotism from
which all the garrison suffered was a slight hypnotism; the eyes remained
open and people went about behaving almost normally. Father B. lost his
self-control for an instant. Some people would have to be tricked