Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy (1897)
Evans, Henry Ridgely, 1861-1949, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : Laird & Lee · leaf 136
animalelectricity. He wrote as follows:* Place an egg inan egg-cup and balance a long lath upon the egg. ♦Spiritualism and nervous derangement, New York, 1876. p. 115. HAMMOND S EXPERIMENTS. 133 Though the lath be almost a plank it will obedientlyfollow a rod of glass, gutta percha or… … FIG. 21. DR. HAMMONDS APPARATUS. fling gait over the carpet, and then approaching thelath hold out the finger instead of the glass, sealingwax or gutta percha, and instantly the end of the lathat L rises to meet it, and the end at Lis depressed.Applying these principles, I arranged an…
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891 · Spiritualism · Theosophy
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