"3. The palm of the hand, especially, tends to decrease.
"4. Only the little finger remains without appreciable change.
"5. The change is that of several millimetres, but not enormous.
"6. The fingers of the double tended to close nearer together, as well as become smaller—just as an ordinary hand would probably do."
The light which supplied the necessary illumination for these photographs seemed to have been emitted from a sort of "egg," near the wrist of the hand, which was intensely luminous. This was not expected, and came as a surprise. Two suggestions as to its nature at once present themselves: (1) that it is a self-created mediumistic light; and (2) that it is a mass of matter from which the hand derives its material sustenance.
In a further series of experiments, during which Dr. Ochorowicz was repeatedly touched by a cold hand, impressions of large left hands were left upon the plates—the medium's left hand being, meanwhile, a long way removed from the plate. The fingers were very large, the thumb enormous and abnormally shaped at the end.
Summing up the conclusions which, he thought, could be drawn from his researches, Dr. Ochorowicz said:
"1. Fluidic hands are detached more or less rarely—according to the condition of the subject's "forces." When these are strong, hands may even be produced unknown to the medium.
"2. The direction and character of these hands are determined by the subconscious mind of the medium; but also partially by the conscious mind.
"3. The properties of the fluidic hands are not constant; they change frequently.