Footnotes:
[{0a}] Fortnightly Review, February 1866, and in a lecture, 1895.
[{0b}] This diary was edited for private circulation, by a son of Mr. Proctor’s, who remembers the disturbances.
[{0c}] See essays here on Classical and Savage Spiritualism.
[{0d}] This was merely a cheerful obiter dictum by the learned President.
[{4}] Not the house agent.
[{9}] Porphyry, Epistola xxi. Iamblichus, De Myst., iii. 2.
[{11}] The Port Glasgow story is in Report of the Dialectical Society, p. 200. The flooring was torn up; walls, ceilings, cellars, were examined by the police, and attempts were made to imitate the noises, without success. In this case, as at Rerrick in the end of the seventeenth century, and elsewhere, ‘the appearance of a hand moving up and down’ was seen by the family, ‘but we could not catch it: it quietly vanished, and we only felt cold air’. The house was occupied by a gardener, Hugh McCardle. Names of witnesses, a sergeant of police, and others, are appended.
[{12}] Report of Dialectical Society, p. 86.
[{17a}] For ourselves, we have never seen or heard a table give any responses whatever, any more than we have seen the ghosts, heard the raps, or viewed the flights of men in the air which we chronicle in a later portion of this work.