The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . de remote from the medium and waves toand fro in the air horizontally, beating time toa tune for five minutes or more. This hashappened many times. But the next process isnot so common—I have only seen it some threetimes. After waving about in the air for sometime, the small end of the trumpet—that project-ing beyond the table—rises until it touches theedge of the table, then the trumpet slides bodilyup the ledge, by short sharp jerks, at the sametime bending over to the top surface, while thethick end comes out from below the table.
The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . de remote from the medium and waves toand fro in the air horizontally, beating time toa tune for five minutes or more. This hashappened many times. But the next process isnot so common—I have only seen it some threetimes. After waving about in the air for sometime, the small end of the trumpet—that project-ing beyond the table—rises until it touches theedge of the table, then the trumpet slides bodilyup the ledge, by short sharp jerks, at the sametime bending over to the top surface, while thethick end comes out from below the table. Three successive positions are shown on which will make the description it gets into the position (3), the whole 176 REALITY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA trumpet can be clearly seen apparently in contactwith nothing. Further strong shoves are thengiven it in an endeavour to slide it up the ledgeand jerk it on to the surface of the table. I my-self have observed the trumpet one stage fartheradvanced on its journey than (3), but I have not. Fig. 34. seen the actual completion of the the occasions I have witnessed the pheno-menon the operators were unable to succeed withthe final necessary jerk. However, the sittersinform me that it has been completely successfulon one occasion. I take it that the psychic arm had hold of thetrumpet by adhesion at its thick end, and thatthe various motions given to it were more orless those I have dealt with already. This experiment of the movement of thetrumpet, the waving to and fro in the air keeping A CANTILEVER THEORY 177 time to a tune, and the motions described aboveabout the ledge of the table may be interestingto those who at dark seances have heard the voices through a trumpet which was presum-ably moving about the room. In Experiment 22 it was stated that when thetable stands on the floor within the circle it can
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