[23] This case is reported in detail in the Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. ii, pp. 119-138.
[24] The extent to which automatists sometimes draw on the contents of their own subconsciousness is strikingly illustrated by a case investigated by Mr. Lowes Dickinson, wherein the medium, an estimable young lady of his acquaintance, was seemingly “controlled” by the “spirit” of a noblewoman of the Middle Ages, who described the customs, manners, and personages of the country in which she claimed to have lived, in such minute detail and with such accuracy that it seemed certain this was one case at all events in which survival had been proved. Ultimately it was discovered that every fact given by the alleged spirit was contained in a little known historical novel which the medium had read, but read only once, when a very small girl. So far as conscious recollection went she had forgotten all about this book, but subconsciously she had evidently retained a marvelously exact memory of it.
[25] “After Death—What?” pp. 57-58.
[26] A detailed account of Home’s performances will be found in my book, “Historic Ghosts and Ghost-Hunters,” pp. 143-170.
[27] An excellent study of the mediumship of Stainton Moses is contained in Frank Podmore’s “Modern Spiritualism,” vol. ii, pp. 276-288.
[28] Studied in detail in my book, “Historic Ghosts and Ghost-Hunters.”
[29] Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. xii, pp. 58-67.
[30] Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. xii, pp. 101-103.
[31] I am inclined, for example, to believe that there is a large element of hysteria in the mediumship of the discredited Eusapia Paladino, once the marvel of two continents.
[32] Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. viii, pp. 394-395.