Cock Lane and Common-Sense

by Andrew Lang

[{137}] There is one possible exception to this rule.

[{139}] S. P. R., viii. 81.

[{140a}] Geschichte des Neueren Occultismus, p. 451.

[{140b}] Opera, 1605.

[{142}] S. P. R., vi. 149.

[{146}] Proc. S. P. R., viii. 133.

[{147}] Proc. S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 269.

[{149}] This is rather overstated; there were knocks, and raps, and footsteps (Proc. S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 310).

[{150}] Proc. S. P. R., April, 1885, p. 144.

[{151}] To be frank, in a haunted house the writer did once see an appearance, which was certainly either the ghost or one of the maids; ‘the Deil or else an outler quey,’ as Burns says.