Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy . t a power, force, or influence, proceedingfrom his hand, I set the clock going, and almost im-mediately the end, B, of the board was seen to descendslowly and remain down for about 10 seconds; it thendescended a little further, and afterwards rose to itsnormal height. It then descended again, rose sud-denly, gradually sunk for 17 seconds, and finally roseto its normal height, where it remained till the ex-periment was concluded. The lowest point markedon the
Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy . t a power, force, or influence, proceedingfrom his hand, I set the clock going, and almost im-mediately the end, B, of the board was seen to descendslowly and remain down for about 10 seconds; it thendescended a little further, and afterwards rose to itsnormal height. It then descended again, rose sud-denly, gradually sunk for 17 seconds, and finally roseto its normal height, where it remained till the ex-periment was concluded. The lowest point markedon the glass was equivalent to a direct pull of about 124 PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. 5,000 grains. The accompanying Figure 12 is a copyof the curve traced on the glass. Experiment II.—Contact through water havingproved to be as effectual as actual mechanical con-tact, I wished to see if the power or force could affectthe weight, either through other portions of the ap-paratus or through the air. The glass vessel and ironstand, etc., were therefore removed, as an unnecessarycomplication, and Mr. Homes hands were placed on the SCALE OF stand of the apparatus at P (Fig. 9). A gentleman presentput his hand on Mr. Homes hands, and his foot onboth Mr. Homes feet, and I also watched himclosely all the time. At the proper moment the clockwas again set going; the board descended and rose inan irregular manner, the result being a curved tracingon the glass, of which Fig. 13 is a copy. CROOKES EXPERIMENTS. SCALE THB SAME AS IN FIG. 12. 125
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