Psychical research and the Resurrection . y walking and not the boy walks, acurious deviation from the most natural speech, unlessthe subliminal is shrewd enough to introduce justsufficient variation into a capricious whim of this kindto give it plausibility.* A few days later the planchette drew a rough sketchof a man and then one of a woman, explaining at thesame time what they represented and giving the Mar-tian words for the two. Mare was for man, Maren for men, Kare for woman, and * The absence of iuch variations is a peculiarity of theFlournoy case; the fact that in it the Martian langua
Psychical research and the Resurrection . y walking and not the boy walks, acurious deviation from the most natural speech, unlessthe subliminal is shrewd enough to introduce justsufficient variation into a capricious whim of this kindto give it plausibility.* A few days later the planchette drew a rough sketchof a man and then one of a woman, explaining at thesame time what they represented and giving the Mar-tian words for the two. Mare was for man, Maren for men, Kare for woman, and * The absence of iuch variations is a peculiarity of theFlournoy case; the fact that in it the Martian language fol-lowed exactly the order and grammar of French, made astrong point in the argument against regarding it as anindependent language.— [Editors Note.] 228 THE SMEAD CASE Karen for women. After this description asked the question, What is peculiar aboutthat picture of the man you drew? and received thefollowing answer with the continued dialogue: The way they dress. (How?) The menwear dresses and pants. (Short dresses?) The women wear bag-like skirts and funny hair is hanging down their shoulders. The? men put theirs up and keep long hair under their went all around. The people are different in dif-ferent places. In the next experiment a strange figure was drawnand the word Wereven written out, which was saidto mean serpent. This was followed by the groundplan of a house in the shape of a double cross, or two 229 PSYCHICAL, RESEARCH AND THE RESURRECTION crosses with their arms touching, and with the outlineof a mountain range in the background. The lowerpart or half of the double cross, however, was ex-plained to represent the reflection of the house in thewater, thus indicating that it was built on the shoreof some body of water. It was afterwards explainedalso that the Martian houses were usually built on theshore of a lake or body of water. In the presentrepresentation there were drawn circular loops in thewing sections of the house. The
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