oise which usually heralded the arrival
of 'Jeffrey,' as they called the Epworth 'spirit'. {125b} It has
been alleged that the charming and ill-fated Hetty Wesley caused the
disturbances. If so (and Dr. Salmon, who supports this thesis, does
not even hazard a guess as to the modus operandi), Hetty must have
been familiar with almost the whole extent of psychical literature,
for she scarcely left a single phenomenon unrepresented. It does
not appear that she supplied visible 'hands'. We have seen Glanvill
lay stress on the apparition of a hand. In the case of the devil of
Glenluce, 'there appeared a naked hand, and an arm from the elbow
down, beating upon the floor till the house did shake again'. {126a}
At Rerrick, in 1695, 'it knocked upon the chests and boards, as
people do at a door'. 'And as I was at prayer,' says the Rev.
Alexander Telfair, 'leaning on the side of a bed, I felt something
thrusting my arm up, and casting my eyes thitherward, perceived a
little white hand, and an arm from the elbow down, but it vanished
presently.' {126b} The hands viewed, grasped, and examined by
Home's clientele, hands which melted away in their clutch, are
innumerable, and the phenomenon, with the 'cold breeze,' is among
the most common in modern narratives.

Our only conclusion is that the psychological conditions which begat
the ancient narratives produce the new legends. These surprise us
by the apparent good faith in marvel and myth of many otherwise
credible narrators, and by the coincidence, accidental or designed,
with old stories not generally familiar to the modern public. Do
impostors and credulous persons deliberately 'get up' the subject in
rare old books? Is there a method of imposture handed down by one
generation of bad little girls to another? Is there such a thing as
persistent identity of hallucination among the sane? This was
Coleridge's theory, but it is not without difficulties. These
questions are the present results of Comparative Psychological
Research.

HAUNTED HOUSES

Reginald Scot on Protestant expulsion of Ghosts. His boast
premature. Savage hauntings. Red Indian example. Classical cases.
Petrus Thyraeus on Haunted Houses. His examples from patristic
literature. Three species of haunting spirits. Demons in
disguises. Hallucinations, visual, auditory, and tactile. Are the
sounds in Haunted Houses real or hallucinatory? All present do not
always hear them. Interments