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certain susceptibilities in the individual to produce these results. 
We then tried the experiment with a piece of copper-wire and 
with the same results. Again Mrs. Manners was insulated and all 
motion and sensation ceased. When insulated I took hold of the 
ends, and as before, the movements immediately followed. This 
I did again and again with unvarying action. . . . Some 
months after Mrs. Manners came to Silk Willoughby to find 
water for two farms. I repeated the same experiments here, with 
the same results. Again when the magnetic current was running 
through the copper-wire I applied a common sewing needle to the 
wire, and held it in connection for sometime, when the needle 
became magnetized. I tested this needle three months after- 
wards, and it picked up several needles from the table and held 
them suspended.” 
Mr. MacKnight, writing to Mr. Vaughan Jenkins, on March 7th, 
1893, says, ‘“ Exception was taken to my calling it electricity. I 
did so for the sensation through me was similar to that which I 
feel from my own magneto-electric machine, and this led me to 
test it by insulation, as described in my published letter, and as 
often as I, standing over the water, took Mrs. Manners’ hand, the 
power acted, and as often ceased the instant I let her hand go, 
while she was on the insulated board. Mrs. Manners is a well- 
educated lady and far above any attempt at collusion or trick, and 
too clear-minded to be liable to self-deception. She is an amateur 
diviner, and exhibited her powers for Lord Dysart to find water on 
his estate, and in several other places in this parish, . . . In 
every case the springs were found. I may say that when I 
produced the glass cellars and board, she did not know for what 
purpose I did so, nor what results I expected ; only, I asked her, 
the rod quivering violently in her hands, to step on the board. 
In an instant she said, ‘ It is gone.’” 
Mr. Vaughan Jenkins further remarks, ‘‘The Rector’s 
experiments clearly show it to be a condition absolute that the 
investigator himself should be a susceptible, or at least semi- 

