Apparitions and thought-transference: an examination of the evidence for telepathy. Frank Podmore
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Mdlle. Jane, after having seen the original, said that her first idea had been that of a glass.
| No. of Trial. | Percipient. | Agents. | Original Drawing. | Result. |
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| 55 | Mme. D. | 4. |
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| 56 | M. Schmoll. | 4. Mme. D. in place of M. Schmoll. |
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| 57 | A Failure. | |||
| 58 | Mdlle. Jane. | 6. |
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After five minutes Mdlle. Jane said, "I see a cat's head." On being asked to draw what she saw, she produced the following figure:— |
| 59 | Mdlle. Jane. | 6. |
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At the end of five minutes, Mdlle. Jane having said, "it is a head in profile," a cry of joy unfortunately escaped one of those present. This cry having betrayed to Mdlle. Jane that she had guessed rightly, no drawing was made. In order to repair the wrong as much as possible, Mdlle. Jane was asked which way the head was turned. "To the left," she replied. |
Experiments 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 were failures. No. 65 was not an experiment with a diagram.
April 8th, 1887.
| No. of Trial. | Percipient. | Agents. | Original Drawing. | Result. |
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| 66 | Mdlle. Louise. | 5. (plus Mr. Myers) |
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At the end of a few minutes, Mdlle.Louise said, "I see three fish on a skewer." Not being well understood, she explained, "Three fish held by a skewer, that is as they are sold in the fish markets; but everybody knows that!" Then she took off her bandage and drew— |
| 67 | Failure. | |||
| 68 | Failure. | |||
| 69 | Mdlle. Louise. | 5. (plus Mr. Myers) |
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Appended is a statement from Mdlle. Jane D., a young lady of 20, who appears to have been one of the most successful percipients in this series:—
"Whenever I have taken part in the experiments as percipient, I have endeavoured to expel from my mind all thoughts and images, and have remained inactive, with my hands over my eyes, waiting for the production of an impression; sometimes I have tied up my eyes, but this plan has not always been successful. At other times the idea of an object has presented itself to me before I have seized its form, but most frequently I seemed to see the picture either black on a white ground, or white on a black ground. In general, the objects present themselves in an undecided manner, and pass away very rapidly; usually I only grasp a portion of them.
"Whenever I have been most successful, I have remarked that the picture has presented itself to my imagination almost instantaneously. Sometimes also I have been led to draw an object of which the name was forced on me, as if by some external influence. "JANE D.
"Paris, February 17th, 1888."
Appended are a few facsimiles of the most successful of the above results, reproduced in the original size.
No. 51.—ORIGINAL.
No. 51.—REPRODUCTION.
No. 53.—ORIGINAL.
No. 53.—REPRODUCTION.
No 56.—ORIGINAL.
No. 56.—REPRODUCTION.
No. 58.—ORIGINAL. No. 58.—REPRODUCTION.
No. 66.—ORIGINAL.
No. 66.—REPRODUCTION.
No. 9.—By DR. VON SCHRENK-NOTZING.
Baron von Schrenk-Notzing, M.D., of Munich, whose work in hypnotism is well known, carried on a series of experiments with diagrams and numbers, etc., in the course of the year 1890.[24] Space will not permit of our quoting these results in full. The following