s book when Poltergeists, Cock-lore ghost affairs, are discussed,
it appears that genuine hallucinations may be associated with fraudulent
physical phenomena.

[Footnote 20: "Studies," pp. 305-308; Chap. x. Haunted Houses.]

These are, it may be positively stated, hypnotic hallucinations. The two
together in some cases, as in the one already mentioned[21] of "Alice,"
amount to a very good ghost story, the blood on the floor alone excepted.
Alice's home was a terrace house in a town. The House at B---- was very
large and somewhat lonely.

[Footnote 21: "Podmore," p. 153.]

It is, however, less than 200 yards from a road along the Tay, that river
running parallel to its front to the southward of it.

Rights of way from the north-west pass north of the house, and there were
some empty lodges there; these might afford shelter to the persons of
strong hypnotic power who chose to play the ghost. The continuity of the
noises at night would be thus facilitated. The house belonged to the
grand-nephew of a retired Indian major. It is apparently suggested
that the major's relations with a young housekeeper were suspicious. The
two and a native Indian servant are buried in the kirkyard at L----;
presumably Logierait.

The haunted house is, as was said, at Ballechin in Perthshire; and it may
be noted that to Perthshire Esdaile, the famous Calcutta hypnotist and
physician, retired; but that he was unable to effect with the Perthshire
people the marvellous cures he had brought about in India. Perhaps the
Indian servant may have attracted the attention of some base imitator of
the honourable Esdaile. It may be noted that an officer of rank, whose
family were friends and not very distant neighbours in the south of
England of the late Rev. Lord Sydney Godolphin Osborne, experienced some
singular phenomena. Lord Sydney was a great hypnotist, and cured, or
believed he cured, many cases of epilepsy. The officer in question
suffered at times from a tickling in his face, which annoyed him very
much; it seemed to be more on the cheeks than in the corners behind the
nostrils.

The connection with hypnotism is seen in the next case. A much younger
man, a captain in the Indian army, who had attended many spiritist
seances, suffered much the same sort of tickling annoyance. Both were
perfectly sane, and were doubtless persecuted. They were intelligent,
capable people. A friend informs the writer that when some years ago he
visited a fortun