Cock Lane and Common-Sense eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 347 pages of information about Cock Lane and Common-Sense.

Cock Lane and Common-Sense eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 347 pages of information about Cock Lane and Common-Sense.

{108c} Proceedings S. P. R., x. 45-100; xix. 147.

{109a} Incidents in my Life, i. 170.

{109b} A Paris, chez la Veuve du Carroy, 1621.

{110a} Folklore of China, 1876, p. 79.

{110b} Op. cit., p. 74.

{110c} Paris.  Quarto.  Black letter. 1528.  The original is extremely rare.  We quote from a copy once in the Tellier collection, reprinted in Recueil de Dissertations Anciennes et Nouvelles sur les Apparitions.  Leloup:  Avignon, 1751, vol. ii. pp. 1-87.

{112} Proceedings S. P. R., xix. 186.  ‘C.’ is a Miss Davis, daughter of a gentleman occupying ’a responsible position as a telegraphist’.  The date was 1888.

{114a} Satan’s Invisible World Discovered.  Edinburgh:  Reid, 1685.  Pp. 67-69.

{114b} Manuscript 7170, A, de la Bibliotheque du Roi.  Dissertations, ut supra, vol. i. pp. 95-129.

{115} Dufresnoy, op. cit., i. 95-129.

{117} Compare Bastian, Mensch., ii. 393, cited by Mr. Tylor.

{118} De Materia Daemon.  Isagoge, p. 539.  Ap.  Corn.  Agripp., De Occult.  Philosoph.  Lyons, 1600.

{122} Aubrey gives a variant in his Miscellanies, on the authority of the Vicar of Barnstaple.  He calls Fey ‘Fry’.

{123a} The Devonshire case, ‘Story of a Something,’ in Miss O’Neill’s Devonshire Idylls, is attested by a surviving witness.

{123b} Trials of Isobell Young, 1629, and of Jonet Thomson, Feb. 7, 1643.  Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 593.

{124} Witness Rev. E. T. Vaughan, King’s Langley. 1884.

{125a} Segraisiana, p. 213.

{125b} Crookes’s Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena usually called Spiritual. 86.  London:  Burns (second edition).

{126a} Satan’s Invisible World Discovered, p. 75.

{126b} A New Confutation of Sadducism, p. 5, writ by Mr. Alexander Telfair, London, 1696.

{129} Primitive Culture, vol. i. 368; ii. 304.

{130} The reader may also consult Notes on the Spirit Basis of Belief and Custom, a rough draft printed for the Indian Government.  While rich in curious facts, the draft contains very little about ‘manifestations,’ except in ‘possession’.

{131a} Gregory, Dialogues, iv. 39.

{131b} De Rerum Varietate, xvi. cap. xciii.

{132} De Praestigiis Daemon.

{133} Si fallere possunt, ut quis videre se credat, cum videat revera extra se nihil:  non poterunt fallere, ut credat quis se audire sonos, quos revera non audit? (p. 81).

{135} Proceedings S. P. R., xv. 42.

{137} There is one possible exception to this rule.

{139} S. P. R., viii. 81.

{140a} Geschichte des Neueren Occultismus, p. 451.

{140b} Opera, 1605.

{142} S. P. R., vi. 149.

{146} Proc.  S. P. R., viii. 133.

{147} Proc.  S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 269.

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