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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. are left in the undisturbed pos- If he does not believe you, let The session of ghosts left because him look into the mirror.

of finding himself in' these ghosts had tried beyond en- shock durance the nerves of the people strange body will break the spell, He will stop suspecting or abus- ing you.

who had once lived there.

The ghost thus is a public men-

Tell him that he is the victim ace. You buy an old house and You may

find its peace upset by of a fancy of his own mind, that vengeance if something out of the grisly past, he should forswear Others may scoff and laugh, but 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 body of the leave post-haste with impossible will slip out of the

He may never excuses. What are you going to medium-free.

disturb the house again.

Recently I had to deal

du about it?

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Nothing. You will silence because you do not wish two bad cases of haunting. to expose yourself to public ri- dicule and because you do 2301 know that ghosts can be laid.

an

Ghosts?

Asks Dr. NANDOR FODOR

cradle. I found the owners

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adventure took me to Yorkshire, An SOS came from an ancient country house the name of which 1 am not at liborty to disclose. seemed to be lightened. Old-fashioned wire bells, which

In a vision, the deformed boy require a strong pull and cannot

saw his mother and father beck-. a ghost began to articulate.

He be short-circulted by wires touch- oning for him in a beautiful gar- den; a nurse came for the mother, threw himself on his knees and ing or by mice and rats rang in-

He seized my termittently for five days. cried for mercy.

who lost her child by Court intri→. hand in a terrific grip. I cried out Two days after the bells start gue; and the poisoner was swept in pain. For two days after-ed ringing. an apparition Was out of her state of despair after a

seen-independently by two ser passionate prayer. vants-bending over an ancient I cannot yet tell how much of

of these strange

stories might be the house extremely level-head- verifled 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. genuine mystery confronted me. At the best, 1 could only prove I was accompanied by a Using

well by indirect methods that I was known London trance medium. I

in contact with something beyond our ken. expected to hear, through her, of

The one ghost, but found instead that

ghost of the woman poi- I had to deal with three.

soner wrote down her name when One ghost followed the cradle i pushed a piece of paper under which belonged to her child. The the medium's hand.

Back In London 1 handed this child was taken from her to be used as A substitute in a Court

paper to a well-known woman, of intrigue and she was imprisoned whose psychic powers I have

Without reading She got away, without realising high opinion.

her that it was by death, and was still the paper, she placed It on to seeking her child.

forchead and passed into a state The second ghost was a woman of abstraction. In the course of who lived in or near the house this, to my surprise, she gave me The and bad poisoned her husband a number of visual symbols and und and killed her child.

bewildering phrases which were TC- 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. the story which have yet to be ment. It was this boy who rang It was a strange occurrence, but I made me lean strongly towards verified. But I have the assur- the bells.

house As the ghosts unburdened them- the assumption

that 1 was in ance of the man in the

came about in touch with grimmer realities than that he now enjoys undisturbed selves, a change possession.

their mental condition. The pall the medium's own power of dra- The second recent ghost-laying of darkness which enveloped them maḥsation.

wards my hand was swollen, and it hurt for two weeks. strange and mediaeval forms of with speech which were hard to fol- low, the ghost gradually told his stury. Betrayed by Buckingham An old manor house in Surrey nearly 400 years ago, he was im- was the scene of one. The ghost prisoned, maimed and murdered, walked, knocked and appeared in and was still seeking vengeance The ghost is in your house pro- a form so solid that the owners on Buckingham,

He could not believe he was bably because he has nowhere of the house-a man and his wife

him for

intruding dead. I fought and argued with else to go. He is anchored there took and will not be dispossessed. It tramp. Independently they chal- him, and finally, for the sake of is still in his view, his own, and lenged him and answered his idio- his wife and son, he agreed

vengeance. Almost tic loer by hitting him. The man forswear his he considers you an intruder.

crushed to the floor and fainted. immediately he cried: "Hold me!

the Hold me! I am slipping?" I

sounds His wife tore her hand on agree that all this

is lintel of the door in front of which next moment he was gone fantastic nonsense. But there

consciousness nothing sensible about ghosts. the ghost stood, and she then fled the mediurn's

turned. panic. There is only one practical way in to deal with them. It is this:

I waited up fur three nights Assume first that the manifes- hoping to meet the ghost and fin- tations are signs of the presence ally, through the help of a fam- f a tormented soul; that the dis- ous trance medium, I got hold of more turbance is an SOS from the dead. him and had an interview Then find out what is the night- poignant with draina than any

dead is scene I ever witnessed. mare from which the suffering. Dissipate it, and with the nightmare the ghost will go.

The medium grew cataleptic. Then a dreadful change came in, over her. Her cheeks sank her chin dropped, her face be They came distorted and hideous. your was the face of a tormented man "push whom pain had deprived of his

Then reason.

Take a medium to the house, let him go into a trance and ask his "controls" for help. will sense the trouble of ghost, get hold of him and him" into the medium. you can talk to him dirvet.

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1 beckoned to the owners of the

I cannot assure you get whe- house to step forward. The man.

ther this practice is snags. I know, however, that works.

from

it

The experimenter LITUSE Cross- examine the post sung 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 and

is a table cloth, a tumbler, two shilling pieces as well as the sixpence. Then you are equipped for an entertaining little demon- stration.

First of all you place the shit- 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 tumble you put the sixpence just halfway between the two shillings. Then whether you ask your audience they think it possible to move the sixpence without touching either the glass or the other two coins.

It will indeed seern 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

will

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

& CORNS

4 CORKS

With a Double Bottam.

down, turning it back again when you want to turn the eight into four again.

LAST MINUTE

WRINKLES

then move either towards or away crackers give that little "extra"

from you.

Can You Multiply?

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

a

In this trick you show a small circular wooden box. Into this

look to your Christmas table

Holly, if obtainable, is always

welcome.

Remove all trussings from Christmas poultry before ser- ving.

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 cight.

beforehand, then there will be no delays.

You then replaco the lid, makeT une your Radio some more passes, and once more remove the lid. The eight corks have diminished to four once M again.

alto sure that all your wine is opened and decanted before it is wanted for use.

Iways POLISH your table fruit with a dry glass-cloth-it looks better when this is done. Soda-water is handy to have by

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 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 turn the box upside.

one for the sparkling dilution of "soft" drinks. Some of your guests may not care for alco- holic drinks.

GIFT

Suggestions

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and up.

Pen and Pencil set

$11.50 and up.

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3. Give a specially ar-

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ranged basket of fruit

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this year it's a gift that is always sure of

a welcome!

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