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THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 19, 1940.

Do You Believe In

must be told, if he does not know it, that he is making himself a nuisance, that the place belongs Hundreds of houses in England to him no more, that he is dead. If he does not bellevé 'you, let him look into the mirror, shock

are left in the undisturbed pos- session of ghosts

- left because these ghosts had tried beyond en-

who had once lived there.

ace,

The

Ghosts?

of finding himself in. a ghost began to, articulate,

adventure took me to Yorkshire. An SOS came from an ancient country "house the name of which

I am not at liberty to disclose, seemed to be lightened. Old-fashioned wire belis, which

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In a vision, the deformed boy require a strong pull and cannot saw his mother and father beck- He be short-circuited by wires touch- oning for him in a beautiful' gar

gue; and the poisoner was swept who lost her child by Court intri-

out of her state of despair after passionate prayer.

durance, the nerves of the people Strange body will break the spell, threw himself on his knees and ing or by mice and rats rung 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 terrific 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

these strange stories might be the house extremely level-head- verified by historic research, Nei- 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.

but

Asks Dr. NANDOR FODOR

The ghost thus is a public men-

Tell him that he is the victim You buy an old house and you may find its peace upset by of a fancy of his own mind, that something out of the grisly past. he should forswear vengeance if Others may scoff and laugh,

he harboured any, that he should Pray with you know that something is brood- pray for guidance. ing under your roof which strikes him if he cannot pray alone. You terror in the hearts of your ser. will find an increasing emotional vants and makes your guests response, and presently the ghost leave post-baste with impossible will slip out of the body of the wards my hand was swollen, and genuine mystery confronted me.

He What are you going to medium---free.

disturb the house again.

excuses.

You will

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may

never

The ghost of the woman pol- soner wrote down her name when I pushed a piece of paper under the medium's hand.

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At the best, I could only prove it hurt for two weeks.

was accompanied by a well- by indirect methods that I was Using do about it?

strange and mediaeval forms

known London trante medium. 1 in contact with something beyond of

I had to deal Nothing.

with speech which were hard to fol- expected to hear, through her, of our ken. Recently

low, the ghost gradually told his one ghost, but found instead that silence because you do not wish two had cases of haunting.

story. Betrayed by Buckingham

1 had to deal with three. to expose yourself to public ri-

An old manor house in Surrey nearly 400 years ago, he was im- One ghost followed the cradle dicule and because you do 13111

was the scene of one. The ghost prisoned, maimed and murdered, which belonged to her child. The know that ghosts can be laid.

walked, knocked and appeared in and was still seeking vengeance child was taken from her to bo used as a substitute in a Court The ghost is in your house pro- a form so solid that the owners on Buckingham.

He could not belleve he was intrigue and she was imprisoned. bably because he has

of the house-a man and his wife nowhere else to go. He is anchored there

took him for an intruding dead.

I fought and argued with She got away, without realising

high opinion. Independently they chal- him, and finally, for the sake of that it was by death, and was still and will not be dispossessed. 1 framp.

to seeking her child. is still in his view, his own, and lenged him and answered his idlo. his wife and son, he agreed he considers you an intruder. the leer by hitting him. The man forswear his vengeance. Almost The second ghost was a woman crashed to the floor and fainted, immediately he cried: "Hold me who lived in or near the house all this agree that

sounds His wife tore her hand on the Hold me! I am slipping!" The and had poisoned her husband fantastic nonsense. But there is lintel of the dour in front of which next moment he was gone and and killed her child. nothing sensible about ghosts. the ghost stood, and she then fed the medium's consciousness

The third ghost was a deform- There is only one practical way in panie.

ed boy who was earth-bound be- to deal with them. It is this:

There are many things about cause of arrested mental develop- the story which have yet to be ment. It was this boy who rang verified. But I have the assur- the bells.

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I waited up for three nights Assume frst that the manifes- hoping to meet the ghost and fin- tations are signs of the presence ally, through the help of a fam of a tormented soul; that the dis ous trance medium, I got hold of turbance is an SUS from the dead. him and had an interview more Then And out what is the night- poignant with drama than any mare from which the dead is scene I ever witnessed. suffering. Dissipate it, and with the nightmare the ghost will go.

The medium grew cataleptic. Then 2t dreadful change cume Take a medum to the house, over her. Her cheeks sank in. let him go into a trance and ask her chin dropped, her face be his "controls" for help.

will sense the trouble of ghost, get hold of him and hun" into the medium. you can talk to bun direct.

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They came distorted and hideous. your was the face of a tormented man "push whom pain had deprived of h

Then reason.

I cannot assure you yet whe- ther this practice is frea From snags. I know, however, that + works.

The experimenter must Cross- examine the possessing entity, who

CARDS, COINS AND CORKS

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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 and is a table cloth, a tumbler, two shilling pleces 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 turn-

I beckoned to the owners of the

house to step forward. The man. visibly shaken, declared that the face was the exact image of the ghost, His wife almost collapsen.

By dint of much persuasion, the

*BOTTUM OF BOX

in centre

& CORKS

4 CORKS

With a Double Bottom.

bler, placed upside down, to stand down, turning it back again when

between them.

you want to turn the eight into

Before you place the tumble four again. you put the sixpence just halfway, between the two shillings. Then you ask your audience they think it possible to move the sixpence without touching either the glass or the other two coins.

whether

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 finger nails. The sixpence then move either towards or away from you.

will

Can You Multiply?

Quite a baffling trick with corks can be performed if there is little careful preparation.

LAST MINUTE

WRINKLES

Crackers give that little "extra"

look to your Christmas table.

Holly, if obtainable, is always

welcome.

aRemove 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.

cing on the Christmas cake can best be "bored" for candles by doing it with a HOT gimlet.

the interior. To the astonishment Serve your Christmas cocktails of everyone the four corks have ICE-COLD.

become, eight..

then there will be no delays.

You then replace the lid, make Tune your Radio beforehand, some more passes, and once more remove the lid.. The eight corks have diminished 'to four once again.

Startling, yet really quite sim- ple. The box really has two lids, and the bottom of the box is real ly In the middle. The four corks rest in the top half of the box, the eight in the bottom. Which quan- tity is produced to the gaze of the audience depends on which lid is removed. - All you have to do to change, the four" into eight is adroitly to Hun the box upålde

Make sure that all your wine

opened and decanted before, it is wanted for use. 4

Always POLISH your table fruit with a dry glass-cloth-It looks better when this is done.

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oda-water is handy to have by one for the sparkling dijution of "soft" drinks. Some of your guests may not caré”för 'ülca+ holle drinksgba.

turned.

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ance of the man in the house As we ghosts unburdened them- that he now enjoys undisturbed selves, a change came about in their mental condition. The pall The second recent ghost-laying of darkness which enveloped them

possession.

GIFT

Without reading her

Back in London I handed this paper to a well-known woman, of whose psychic powers I have the paper, she placed it on forehead and passed into a state of abstraction. In the course of this, to my surprise, she gave me a number of visual symbols and phrases which were bewildering nonsense to her, but which fully applied to the story as told by the ghost.

It was a strange occurrence, but 1 made me Jean strongly towards the assumption

that 1 was in touch with grimmer realitics than the medium's own power of dra- matisation.

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