ut people in them were
less affected than had been the case when the H. family stayed there.

Rooms Nos. 1, 2, and 3 could be raked from north or south. Nearly all the
persons in the house were affected, and leaving out one or two men who
objected to being reported, it appears that the ladies, who spent in the
aggregate 237 nights in the house, had sixty-two nocturnal experiences,
whilst men spending 108 nights had twenty experiences (between bedtime
and breakfast was considered night-time). But three of the eleven ladies
were very sensitive; only one man out of fourteen was so. Therefore,
on a fair estimate, men and women were about equally sensitive; and this
is the case with hypnotism generally. A further proof of the nature of
the attack.

With regard to rooms Nos. 1 and 2, the following curious fact is noted by
Miss Langton. "The knocks on the door between Nos. 1 and 2 have been
audible in this room; No. 2 in my experience only when No. 2 is empty;
and in No. 1 only when No. 2 is empty."[25] This looks as if attacks were
made from the opposite side of the house to make detection less easy,
especially by daylight. The maid-servants in the attics were often more
impressed than the people in the rooms below. This seems due to the
construction of the house; the attics are more approachable than the
rooms from the staircase. The electricity follows the track of a person
far better on a stair than on a ladder, it may be remarked. Thick walls,
high window-sills, a commanding position, and a murmuring brook, are
great securities against hypnotism, and these would be found in older
Scotch castles. Another element of safety, the purling brook, is here
mentioned; all noise is a good antidote; it is perhaps the case that with
hypnotism from a distance the hypnotic state is continually waxing and
waning, one link, generally a weaker one, succeeding another in the chain
of impressions on the temperament. The diminution being continual, the
force is renewed by people getting near enough to get a strong hold
again, otherwise it dies out.

[Footnote 25: "Alleged Haunting of B---- House," p. 169.]

These approaches were doubtless most dangerous on railway journeys;
hypnotism acts better in a small room than in a large one, and therefore
a person in a railway carriage is more affected. Here discomfort and
oppression helps hypnotism, but the hypnotist if in the train is in a
favourable position, as the distance is preserved very cl