[Footnote 17: Schoolcraft, i. 394.]
[Footnote 18: Brinton's Religions of Primitive Peoples, p. 57.]
[Footnote 19: Purchas, p. 629.]
[Footnote 20: S.P.R. Proceedings, vol. vi. 69.]
[Footnote 21: Binet and Féré, Animal Magnetism, p. 64.]
[Footnote 22: Vol. vii. Mrs. Sidgwick, pp. 30, 356; vol. vi. p. 66,
Professor Richet, p. 407, Drs. Dufay and Azam.]
[Footnote 23: The examples in the Old Testament, and in the Life of St. Columba by Adamnan, need only be alluded to as too familiar for quotation.]
V
CRYSTAL VISIONS, SAVAGE AND CIVILISED
Among savage methods of provoking hallucinations whence knowledge may be supernormally obtained, various forms of 'crystal-gazing' are the most curious. We find the habit of looking into water, usually in a vessel, preferably a glass vessel, among Red Indians (Lejeune), Romans (Varro, cited in Civitas Dei, iii. 457), Africans of Fez (Leo Africanus); while Maoris use a drop of blood (Taylor), Egyptians use ink (Lane), and Australian savages employ a ball of polished stone, into which the seer 'puts himself' to descry the results of an expedition.[1]