Alfred Russel Wallace 



After a time another face quite distinct with a white 

 turban-like headdress — this was a handsome face with a 

 considerable general likeness to that of the medium, but 

 paler, larger, fuller, and older — decidedly a different face, 

 although like. The light was thrown full on this face, 

 and on request it advanced so that the chin projected a 

 little beyond the aperture. We were then ordered to 

 release the medium. I opened the door, and found her 

 bent forward with her head in her lap, and apparently in 

 a deep sleep or trance — from which a touch and a few 

 words awoke her. We then examined the tape and knots 

 —all was as we left it and every seal perfect. 



The same face appeared later in the evening, and also 

 one decidedly different with coarser features. 



After this, for the sake I believe of two sceptics present, 

 the medium was twice tied up in a way that no human 

 being could possibly tie herself. Her wrists were tied 

 together so tightly and painfully that it was impossible to 

 untie them in any moderate time, and she was also secured 

 to the chair; on the other occasion the two arms were tied 

 close above the elbows so tightly that the arms were swell- 

 ing considerably from impeded circulation, the elbows being 

 drawn together as close as possible behind the back, there 

 repeatedly knotted, and again tightly knotted to the back 

 of the chair. Miss C. was evidently in considerable pain, 

 and she had to be lifted out bodily in her chair before we 

 could safely cut her loose, so tightly was she bound. This 

 evidently had a great effect on the sceptics, as I have no 

 doubt it was intended to have, and it demonstrated pretty 

 clearly that some strange being was inside the cupboard 

 playing these tricks, although quite invisible and intan- 

 gible to us except when she made certain portions of herself 

 visible. 



When Miss C. was complaining of being hurt by the 



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