Telepathic Transfer of Brain Action. 891 



Something impelled John Pembridg.e, an employe of the machine works, 

 this morning, to leave his work and go home. He says he does not 

 know wh}* he did. so as he was not sick. Arriving at his home, where 

 a grown daughter, his only child, kept house for him, he found her 

 dead. He had left her in her usual good health in the morning. The 

 cause of her death, and its premonition by the father, are mysteries. " 



The following cases are furnished b}' the authors of ' ' Phantasms of 

 the Living. " Mrs. Severn, wife of Arthur Severn, writes from Brant- 

 wood Coniston, under date of Get, 27, 1883, that one summer morn- 

 ing, about 1880, she awoke at seven o'clock with a start, feeling as if 

 she had received a hard blow upon the mouth, which drew blood, and 

 with such impression she pressed her handkerchief to the part. After 

 a few seconds, upon removing the handkerchief she was surprised to 

 find no blood, and so concluded it had been a very vivid dream. About 

 two and a half hours later, her husband returned from an early sail upon 

 the lake, during which, on account of a sudden squall, he had received 

 a blow upon the mouth from the tiller, which gave a rapid whirl as the 

 boat was turned by the squall. The wound drew blood, which he 

 stanched with his handkerchief. Upon comparing notes it was per- 

 ceived that the wound must have been inflicted about the time the lady's 

 dream occurred, and no doubt it was at the same instant. 



On the evening of the 25th of March, 1880, at 8: 30 o'clock, Mr. 

 Richard Wingfield-Baker, of Orsett Hall, Essex, England, died from 

 the effects of a fall he suffered while hunting with hounds that day. 

 The same night, but several hours later, his brother, Frederick Wing- 

 field-Baker, living at Belle Isle en Terre, Cotes du Nord, France, had a 

 dream, which he relates as follows : "On the night of Thursday, the 

 25th of March, 1880, I retired to bed after reading till late, as is my 

 habit. I dreamed that I was lying on my sofa reading, when, on look- 

 ing up, I saw distinctly the figure of my brother, Richard Wingfield- 

 Baker, sitting on the chair before me. I dreamed that I spoke to him, 

 but that he simply bent his head in reply, rose and left the room. 

 When I awoke I found mj'self standing with one foot on the ground by 

 my bedside, and the other on the bed, trying to speak to and to pro- 

 nounce my brother's name. So strong was the impression as to the re- 

 ality of his presence, and so vivid the whole scene as dreamt, that I 

 left my bedroom to search for my brother in the sitting-room." Three 

 days after this he received the information of his brother's death. 

 (Phantasms, 1-199.) The circumstance of the postponement for some 

 hours, of the consciousness of the impression, is plausibly explained 

 by the authors of Phantasms. The impression is doubtless made at the 

 moment in which the event happens, but the succeeding automatic cere- 

 bral processes by which the undefined impression is transformed into a 



