{283a} Gazette des Tribunaux, February 2, 1846, quoted in Table Parlante, p. 306.

{283b} Table Parlante, p. 174.

{300} Hibbert, Apparitions, p. 211.

{303} Mather’s own account of the lost sermon (p. 298) is in his Life, by Mr. Barrett Wendell, p. 118.  It is by no means so romantic as Wodrow’s version.

{307} An account of the method by which the Miss Foxes rapped is given, by a cousin of theirs, in Dr. Carpenter’s Mesmerism (p. 150).

{312} See Dr. Carpenter’s brief and lucid statement about ’Latent Thought’ and ‘Unconscious Cerebration,’ in the Quarterly Review, vol. cxxxi. pp. 316-319.

{317} A learned priest has kindly looked for the alleged spiritus percutiens in dedicatory and other ecclesiastical formulae.  He only finds it in benedictions of bridal chambers, and thinks it refers to the slaying spirit in the Book of Tobit.

{319a} S. P. R., x. 81.

{319b} London:  Longmans, Green, & Co., 1877.

{320} Quoted by Dr. Carpenter, op. cit., p. vii.

{324} Tom. ii. pp. 312, 435, edition of 1768.

{326} In the Quarterly Review, vol. cxxxi. pp. 336-337, Dr. Carpenter criticises an account given by Lord Crawford of this performance.  He asks for the evidence of the other witnesses.  This was supplied.  He detects a colloquial slovenliness in a phrase.  This was cleared up.  He complains that the light was moonlight.  ‘The moon was shining full into the room.’  A minute philosopher has consulted the almanack and denies that there was any moon!

{327} Lord Crawford’s evidence is in the Report of the Dialectical Society, p. 214

{328} Quarterly Review, vol. cxxxi. p. 303.

{329} Observe the caution of the Mosstrooper, even in that agitating moment!  How good it is, and how wonderfully Sir Walter forecasts a seance.

{341a} Lucretius, iv. 26-75, Munro’s translation.

{341b} Def.  Orac., 19.

{341c} Ibid., iv. 193.

{352} Porphyry, Vita Plotini.

{353} Primitive Culture, i. 404.

{355} In the Pandemonium, or Devil’s Cloyster, of Richard Bovet, Gent. (1684).