en her and Emma, usually in a
slanting direction, while Emma stood by with her arms folded. Yet
Priscilla was not on good terms with Emma. Unless, then, Mrs. Hampson
and Priscilla fabled, it is difficult to see how Emma could move
objects when she was "standing at some considerable distance,
standing, in fact, in quite another farm".

Similar evidence was given and signed by Miss Maddox, the
schoolmistress, and Mr. and Mrs. Lea. On the other hand Mrs. Hampson
and Priscilla believed that Emma managed the fire-raising herself.
The flames were "very high and white, and the articles were very
little singed". This occurred also at Rerrick, in 1696, but Mr.
Hughes attributes it to Emma's use of paraffin, which does not apply
to the Rerrick case. Paraffin smells a good deal--nothing is said
about a smell of paraffin.

Only one thing is certain: Emma was at last caught in a cheat. This
discredits her, but a man who cheats at cards _may_ hold a good hand
by accident. In the same way, if such wonders can happen (as so much
world-wide evidence declares), they _may_ have happened at Woods Farm,
and Emma, "in a very nervous state," _may_ have feigned then, or
rather did feign them later.

The question for the medical faculty is: Does a decided taste for
wilful fire-raising often accompany exhibitions of dancing furniture
and crockery, gratuitously given by patients of hysterical
temperament? This is quite a normal inquiry. Is there a nervous
malady of which the symptoms are domestic arson, and amateur leger-de-
main? The complaint, if it exists, is of very old standing and wide
prevalence, including Russia, Scotland, New England, France, Iceland,
Germany, China and Peru.

As a proof of the identity of symptoms in this malady, we give a
Chinese case. The Chinese, as to diabolical possession, are precisely
of the same opinion as the inspired authors of the Gospels. People
are "possessed," and, like the woman having a spirit of divination in
the Acts of the Apostles, make a good thing out of it. Thus Mrs. Ku
was approached by a native Christian. She became rigid and her demon,
speaking through her, acknowledged the Catholic verity, and said that
if Mrs. Ku were converted he would have to leave. On recovering her
everyday consciousness, Mrs. Ku asked what Tsehwa, her demon, had
said. The Christian told her, and perhaps she would have deserted her
erroneous courses, but her fellow-villagers implored her to pay homa