osely and need
not be very great.

Carriages are of the same size, and this is doubtless a help to the
operator. The frequency of phenomena being observed on the night of
arrival has been noticed. Miss N., who drove over, was not affected.
The average recurrence of phenomena to each person was every fourth
night; other people besides those previously mentioned as suffering on
first nights, were on the second visit Miss Langton and Miss Duff.
The latter was only very restless. This resembles the experimental result
obtained by Mr. Rose; he attempted to impress two ladies in the same
house: the elder saw his apparition, the younger was only restless.[26]

[Footnote 26: "Podmore," p. 252.]

It may be noted that in intercourse with other people, some effort is
commonly made to secure their attention; this no doubt is connected with
the greater facility for causing one's own apparition to be presented.

Thus to resume the question of place of hypnotism, on the second sojourn
four people suffered in the night of first arrival. Was the gang larger,
or were the assailants operators who had been afraid of the cold before?

Possibly Miss Langton had been followed to St. Andrews, where she had
spent Easter, and had a vision of the phantom nun. In other cases where
the absence had been longer only two people were attacked.

Several other persons felt a restlessness like Miss Duff's--woke without
any cause, &c.--Mrs. M., Mr. T., Mr. L.F., and others. If any doubt be
felt about the appearances and noises being from hypnotism, the
experimental cases should remove it, the resemblance of the feelings
of the "garrison" to those hypnotized should be dwelt on, the times of
recurrence, and finally later mentioned the peculiarity of the
apparition's nature--corresponding to those produced by hypnotism. The
argument that Fere and Binet are fond of, that hypnotism much resembles
what can be seen every day, is no doubt true.

Mrs. Anna Kingsford appears to have been often hypnotised by some unknown
rascal, but her gentle admirable character seems to have suffered but
little, though her life was possibly shortened.

But when Professor Maitland talks of building walls round her, he
emphasises the advantage that society gives against witchcraft. Of four
people whose lives have been destroyed or grievously injured by
hypnotism, whose circumstances are known to the writer, three were
childless married men (two were unhappily married), and th