quotes an Irish
lawsuit in 1890. The tenants were anxious not to pay rent, but were
non-suited. No reference to authorities is given. There was also a
case at Dublin in 1885. Waldron's house was disturbed, 'stones were
thrown at the windows and doors,' and Waldron accused his neighbour,
Kiernan, of these assaults. He lost his case (Evening Standard,
February 23, 1885, is cited).

{275} p. 195, London, 1860.

{276} The account followed here is that of the narrator in La Table
Parlante, p. 130, who differs in some points from the Marquis de
Mirville in his Fragment d'un Ouvrage Inedit, Paris, 1852.

{277} For bewitching by touch see Cotton Mather's Wonders of the
Invisible World, p. 150. 'Library of Old Authors,' London, 1862.

{279a} Cotton Mather, op. cit., p. 131.

{279b} Table Parlante, p. 151. A somewhat different version is
given p. 145. The narrator seems to say that Cheval himself deposed
to having witnessed this experiment.

{283a} Gazette des Tribunaux, February 2, 1846, quoted in Table
Parlante, p. 306.

{283b} Table Parlante, p. 174.

{300} Hibbert, Apparitions, p. 211.

{303} Mather's own account of the lost sermon (p. 298) is in his
Life, by Mr. Barrett Wendell, p. 118. It is by no means so romantic
as Wodrow's version.

{307} An account of the method by which the Miss Foxes rapped is
given, by a cousin of theirs, in Dr. Carpenter's Mesmerism (p. 150).

{312} See Dr. Carpenter's brief and lucid statement about 'Latent
Thought' and 'Unconscious Cerebration,' in the Quarterly Review,
vol. cxxxi. pp. 316-319.

{317} A learned priest has kindly looked for the alleged spiritus
percutiens in dedicatory and other ecclesiastical formulae. He only
finds it in benedictions of bridal chambers, and thinks it refers to
the slaying spirit in the Book of Tobit.

{319a} S. P. R., x. 81.

{319b} London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1877.

{320} Quoted by Dr. Carpenter, op. cit., p. vii.

{324} Tom. ii. pp. 312, 435, edition of 1768.

{326} In the Quarterly Review, vol. cxxxi. pp. 336-337, Dr.
Carpenter criticises an account given by Lord Crawford of this
performance. He asks for the evidence of the other witnesses. This
was supplied. He detects a colloquial slovenliness in a phrase.
This was cleared up. He complains that the light was moonlight.
'The moon was shining full into the room.' A minute philosopher has
consulted the almanack and denies that there was any moon!