who had once lived there.
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pos-
The ghost thus is a public men- ace. You buy an old house and you may find its peace upset by something out of the grisly past. Others may scoff and laugh. but you know that something is brood- ing under your roof which strikes terror in the hearts of your ser- vants and makes
guests your leave post-haste with impossible excusex. What are you going to do about
Do You Believe In
must be told, if he does not know
it, that he is making himself a
adventure took me to Yorkshire. An SOS came from an ancient
nuisance, that the place belongshest country house the name of which
The
Tell him that he is the victim of a fancy of his own mind, that he should forswear vengeance f he harboured any, that he should Pray with pray for guidance. him if he cannot pray alone. You will find an increasing emotional response, and presently the glust will ship out of the body of the medium free. He may Bever disturb the house agam.
I had to deal Recently two bad cases of haunting.
Asks Dr. NANDOR FODOR
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who lost her child by Court intri- gue; and the poisoner was swept out of her state of despair after a passionate prayer.
At the best, I could only prove by indirect methods that I was in contact with something beyond our ken.
Hundreds of houses in England to him no more, that he is dead.
I am not at liberty to disclose. are left in the undisturbed
If he does not believe you, let
seemed to be lightened. Old-fashioned wire bells, which session of ghosts left because him look into the mirror.
In a vision, the deformed boy require a strong pull and cannot saw his mother and 'father beck- these ghosts had tried beyond en-
shock of finding himself in a ghost began to articulate. He be short-circuited by wires touch- oning for him in a beautiful gar- durance the nerves of the people strange body will break the spell, threw himself on his knees and ing or by mice and rats rang in- den; a nurse came for the mother
He will stop suspecting or abus- cried for mercy. He seized my termittently for five days. ing you.
hand in a terride grip. I cried out
Two days after the bells start- in pain. For two days after-ed ringing.
an apparition was seen--independently by two ser- vants-bending over an ancient
I cannot yet tell how much of cradle. I found the owners of the house extremely_level-head- verified by historic research. Nei- these strange stories might be ed, intelligent people. There seem- ther can I prove that these ghosts ed nothing wrong with the bells, were responsible for disturbing and my questioning of the five the peace of the house, nor even servants left me satisfied that a that they have been laid. wards my hand was swollen, and genuine mystery confronted me. #1 burt for two weeks.
I Using
was accompanied by a well- strange and mediaeval forms of known London trance medium. I with speech which were hard to fol- expected to hear, through her, of low, the ghost gradually told his one ghost, but found instead that story. Betrayed by Buckingham I had to deal with three An old manor house in Surrey nearly 400 years ago, he was im- One ghost followed the cradle I pushed a piece of paper under was the scene of one. The ghost prisoned, maimed and murdered, which belonged to her child. The the medium's hand. walked, knocked and appeared in and was still seeking vengeance child was taken from her to be
Back in London 1 handed this solid that the owners on Buckingham
a substitute in a Court He could not of the houses a man and his wife
believe he was intrigue and she was imprisoned, paper to a well-known woman, of whose psychic powers I have " tunk
I fought and argued with She got away, without realising intruding dead.
Without reading high opinion. Independently they chal- him, and finally, for the sake of that it was by death, and was still the paper, she placed it on Tramp
her lenged him and answered his idio- his wife and son. he agreed lo reeking her child.
forehead and passed into a slate he deer by hitting bum. The man forswear his vengounce. Almost The second glist was a woman af abstraction. In the course of mashed to the flood and famted. mmediately he cried: "Hold me who lived in or near the house thus, to my surprise, she gave me Ha wife tore her hand on The Hult met I am shipping!" The and had poisoned her husband Al mumber of visual symbols and lintel of the done in front of which next moment he was gone and and killed her chuld,
phrases which were bewildering consciousness The ghost stood, and she then fled the medium's
10- The third ghost was a deform-nonsense to her, but which fully ed boy who was earth-bound "be- applied to the story as told by There are many things about cause of arrested mental develop- the ghost 1 waited up for Three nights the story which have yet to be ment.
It was this boy who rang hoping to meet the ghost and lin verified. But I have the assur- the bells,
It was a strange occurrence, but ally, through the help of a
17. made me lean strongly towards fam ance of the nan 10 the house As the ghosts unburdened them the assumption that was in ous trance medium. I got hold of that he now enjoys undisturbed selves, a change came about in touch with grimmer realities than mental condition. The pall the medium's own power of dra- poignant with drama than any The second recent ghost-laying of darkness which enveloped them matisation.
Nothing. You
uffer will silence because you do not Wish to expose you: elf to ptible cicule and beenis your nee khi that ghers can ho di
in
The gimst as 11 your hie pro- bably because
mawhere else to
H. melored there and will not be depo tal 11 is still an bp view, hi 10374. and he cowders you an intrader
] agree tha alt thi fantastic momsense
sumable
sounds. But There 1. nothing
about ghost There is only one practical way to deal with them. 1:1
Assume first that the manifes tations are signs of the presener of a formented soul; that the dis turbance is an SOS from the deal. Then find out what is the night- mare from which the drad # suffering. Dissipate it, and with the mightmare the ghost will go.
a form so
ES!
panze
for
turned.
him and had an intervieÀN more pussessioni,
scene I ever witnessed.
The median gew catalepti Then a dreadful change
came
Take a medum to the house, over her. Her cheeks, sank ID, let him ge into a trance and ask her chin dropped, her face be his "entral:
for help
They came distorted and hideous 11 will while the trouble of
an ghus, get hold of him and hm" unla the mesinan you can talk to him direct
your was the face of a tormented
"push whom pain had deprived of me.
Then reason.
[1 assure you yet whe- then this practice is Des from Shops I know however, that works
11
Cross-
The experin vrate. examine the possi seng entity, who
CARDS, COINS AND CORKS
(Continued from Page 14.)
It's easy to make a sixpenny piece do what you tell it to do-- when you know the secret.
What you require for this trick is a table cloth, a tumbler, and two shilling pieces as well as the sixpence. Then you are equipped for an entertaining little demon- stration.
First of all you place the shil- lings on the cloth, just far enough apart to allow the rim of the tum- bler, placed upside down, to stand between them.
Before you place the tumbler you put the sixpence just halfway between the two shillings. Then you ask your audience whether they think it possible to move the sixpence without touching either the glass or the other two coins.
It will indeed seem impossible, but you will proceed to do it. It's really quite simple. All you do is to scratch the cloth with your Anger nails. The sixpence will then move either towards or away from you.
Can You Multiply?
Quite a baffling trick with corks can be performed if there is 2 little careful preparation.
I beckoned to the owner of the
house to step forward. The man, visibly shaken, declared that the
face was the exact image of the ghost. His wife almost collapsed
By dint of much persuasion, the
"BOTTOM of BOX
in centre
& CORKS
4 CORKS
With a Double Bottom.
down, turning it back again when you want to turn the eight into four again.
LAST MINUTE
WRINKLES
Crackers give that little "extra"
look to your Christmas table.
Holly, if obtainable, is always
welcome.
R emove all trussings from Christmas poultry before ser- ving.
In this trick you show a small circular wooden box. Into this you place four pieces of cork and I slip on the lid, "Then you make a few mysterious passes over the box, remove the lid-and show the interior. To the astonishment |S of everyone the four corks have become eight.
You then replace the lid, make some more passes, and once more remove the lid. The eight corks have diminished to four once again.
cing on the Christmas cake can. | best be "bored” for candles by doing it with a HOT gimlet.
erve your Christmas cocktails ICE-COLD.
Tune your · Radio beforehand,
then there will be no delays.
Make sure that all your wing is
opened and decented before it. is wanted for use.
Startling, yet really quite sim- ple. The box really has two lids, and the bottom of the box is real-A ly in the middle. The four corks rest in the top half of the box, the cight in the bottom. Which quan- tity is produced to, the gazo, of the audience depends on which lid. is removed. All you have to do to change the four into eight is adroitly to turn the box upsidė |
lways POLISH your table fruit} with a dry glass-cloth-it looks better when, this is done.
Soda-water is handy-to-hayeby ong for the sparkling dilution of "soft" drinks. Some of your ›guests may not care for alco-
holle drinks.
GIFT
used as
their
The ghost of the woman pol- soner write down her name whe
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