in front of
it, stopped, and when the lighted lift came up, found that the door
was wide open and that, had she run on as she intended, she would have
fallen down the well. Here part of her mind may have known that the
door was open, and started a ghost (for there was no real man there)
to stop her. Pity that these things do not occur more frequently.
They do--in New Zealand. {82}

These are a few examples of useful veracious waking dreams. The sort
of which we hear most are "wraiths". A, when awake, meets B, who is
dead or dying or quite well at a distance. The number of these
stories is legion. To these we advance, under their Highland title,
_spirits of the living_.

CHAPTER V

"Spirits of the Living." Mistakes of Identity. Followed by Arrival
of Real Person. "Arrivals." Mark Twain's Phantom Lady. Phantom
Dogcart. Influence of Expectant Attention. Goethe. Shelley. The
Wraith of the Czarina. Queen Elizabeth's Wraith. Second Sight. Case
at Ballachulish. Experiments in sending Wraiths. An "Astral Body".
Evidence discussed. Miss Russell's Case. "Spirits of the Dying."
Maori Examples. Theory of Chance Coincidence. In Tavistock Place.
The Wynyard Wraith. Lord Brougham's Wraith Story. Lord Brougham's
Logic. The Dying Mother. Comparison with the Astral Body. The
Vision of the Bride. Animals as affected by the supposed Presence of
Apparitions. Examples. Transition to Appearances of the Dead.

"Spirits of the living" is the Highland term for the appearances of
people who are alive and well--but elsewhere. The common Highland
belief is that they show themselves to second-sighted persons, very
frequently before the arrival of a stranger or a visitor, expected or
unexpected. Probably many readers have had the experience of meeting
an acquaintance in the street. He passes us, and within a hundred
yards we again meet and talk with our friend. When he is of very
marked appearance, or has any strong peculiarity, the experience is
rather perplexing. Perhaps a few bits of hallucination are sprinkled
over a real object. This ordinary event leads on to what are called
"Arrivals," that is when a person is seen, heard and perhaps spoken to
in a place to which he is travelling, but whither he has not yet
arrived. Mark Twain gives an instance in his own experience. At a
large crowded reception he saw approaching him in the throng a lady
whom he had known and liked many years before. Wh