820 Dynamic Theory. 



customed for many years afterwards, whenever she was at all indis- 

 posed, to see a black cat on the ground before her, and although per- 

 fectly aware of the spectral character of the appearance, yet she could 

 never avoid lifting her foot as if to step over the cat when it seemed to 

 be lying in her path. " (Carpenter. ) 



' ' The Rev. P. H. Newnham tells us of three occasions during the au- 

 tumn of 1883, on which he saw and recognized in church the figures of 

 persons who proved not to have been there. In two of the three cases 

 the figure thus seen had peculiarities which made it quite unmistakable, 

 and was observed in the same place more than once during the service, 

 just as any real member of the congregation might have been. The 

 third case is this : ' I went as usual to the school about a quarter of an 

 hour before service, and either spoke or nodded to all the teachers pres- 

 ent. I particularly noticed one in whom I am much interested, sitting 

 with her class, nodded to her, and she smiled back again. Subsequently, 

 in church I noticed her again, and counted her ( I always count my con- 

 gregations) twice over, once when I counted the entire number present, 

 once when I counted children and adults separately. It turned out, 

 however, that the girl had not been present. I think I was never so 

 surprised in my life. I made several inquiries, but there was "no mis- 

 take. ' She had been detained at home, much to her vexation and an- 

 noyance, during the whole afternoon in which I had seen her in two dif- 

 ferent places, and had had my eye on her practically the whole time. ' " l 



The Rev. Prof. Turner, of Manchester, relates that he saw, one night, 

 suspended from the ceiling of the room, " a large chandelier with some 

 ten scroll-shaped branches, and the jets shining brightly through the 

 ground-glass globes at the end of each. I at once recognized the chan- 

 delier as a duplicate of the chandelier which hung in the college chapel 

 connected with the Countess of Huntingdon's college at Cheshunt, where 

 I received my training for the ministry. I moved my head to see 

 whether the phantom moved too. But no, it remained fixed, and the 

 objects behind and beyond it berime more or less completely visible as 

 I moved, exactly as would have been the case had it been a real chande- 

 lier. " He woke his wife to look, but she saw nothing of course. 



An English officer in India relates the following : "I had been taking 

 luncheon with some friends, and after it was over, m} T host proposed 

 that I and my fellow guest should accompany him to see some altera- 

 tions he was making in his grounds. After we had been out some little 

 time looking at these changes, a native servant approached me with a 

 message from my hostess, asking me to go into the house to speak to 

 her. I at once left my friends and accompanied the man back to the 

 house, following him through the veranda into the room where the 



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