[{279a}] Cotton Mather, op. cit., p. 131.
[{279b}] Table Parlante, p. 151. A somewhat different version is given p. 145. The narrator seems to say that Cheval himself deposed to having witnessed this experiment.
[{283a}] Gazette des Tribunaux, February 2, 1846, quoted in Table Parlante, p. 306.
[{283b}] Table Parlante, p. 174.
[{300}] Hibbert, Apparitions, p. 211.
[{303}] Mather’s own account of the lost sermon (p. 298) is in his Life, by Mr. Barrett Wendell, p. 118. It is by no means so romantic as Wodrow’s version.
[{307}] An account of the method by which the Miss Foxes rapped is given, by a cousin of theirs, in Dr. Carpenter’s Mesmerism (p. 150).
[{312}] See Dr. Carpenter’s brief and lucid statement about ‘Latent Thought’ and ‘Unconscious Cerebration,’ in the Quarterly Review, vol. cxxxi. pp. 316-319.
[{317}] A learned priest has kindly looked for the alleged spiritus percutiens in dedicatory and other ecclesiastical formulæ. He only finds it in benedictions of bridal chambers, and thinks it refers to the slaying spirit in the Book of Tobit.
[{319a}] S. P. R., x. 81.