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We quote from a copy once in the Tellier collection, reprinted in Recueil de Dissertations Anciennes et Nouvelles sur les Apparitions. Leloup: Avignon, 1751, vol. ii. pp. 1-87. {112} Proceedings S. P. R., xix. 186. 'C.' is a Miss Davis, daughter of a gentleman occupying 'a responsible position as a telegraphist'. The date was 1888. {114a} Satan's Invisible World Discovered. Edinburgh: Reid, 1685. Pp. 67-69. {114b} Manuscript 7170, A, de la Bibliotheque du Roi. Dissertations, ut supra, vol. i. pp. 95-129. {115} Dufresnoy, op. cit., i. 95-129. {117} Compare Bastian, Mensch., ii. 393, cited by Mr. Tylor. {118} De Materia Daemon. Isagoge, p. 539. Ap. Corn. Agripp., De Occult. Philosoph. Lyons, 1600. {122} Aubrey gives a variant in his Miscellanies, on the authority of the Vicar of Barnstaple. He calls Fey 'Fry'. {123a} The Devonshire case, 'Story of a Something,' in Miss O'Neill's Devonshire Idylls, is attested by a surviving witness. {123b} Trials of Isobell Young, 1629, and of Jonet Thomson, Feb. 7, 1643. Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 593. {124} Witness Rev. E. T. Vaughan, King's Langley. 1884. {125a} Segraisiana, p. 213. {125b} Crookes's Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena usually called Spiritual. 86. London: Burns (second edition). {126a} Satan's Invisible World Discovered, p. 75. {126b} A New Confutation of Sadducism, p. 5, writ by Mr. Alexander Telfair, London, 1696. {129} Primitive Culture, vol. i. 368; ii. 304. {130} The reader may also consult Notes on the Spirit Basis of Belief and Custom, a rough draft printed for the Indian Government. While rich in curious facts, the draft contains very little about 'manifestations,' except in 'possession'. {131a} Gregory, Dialogues, iv. 39. {131b} De Rerum Varietate, xvi. cap. xciii. {132} De Praestigiis Daemon. {133} Si fallere possunt, ut quis videre se credat, cum videat revera extra se nihil: non poterunt fallere, ut credat quis se audire sonos, quos revera non audit? (p. 81). {135} Proceedings S. P. R., xv. 42. {137} There is one possible exception to this rule. {139} S. P. R., viii. 81. {140a} Geschichte des Neueren Occultismus, p. 451. {140b} Opera, 1605. {142} S. P. R., vi. 149. {146} Proc. S. P. R., viii. 133. {147} Proc. S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 269. {149} This is rather overstated; there were knocks, and raps, and footsteps (Proc. S. P. R., N
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