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description of them in her diary. It turned out that the lady invariable met
the person who had appeared to her on the same day or shortly after. Her drawings
and descriptions were usually so accurate that ber husband could at once recognize
the person from them. One night I went to a lecture at which I was to meet this
lady. After the lecture was over I was introduced to her, and directly she heard
my name she declared that she had known that morning that she would meet me
in the evening. Also she had written a description of my personal appearance
in her diary. I begged her to allow me to have a look at her diary, and she
promised to do so. But when we (the lecturer and I) asked her to let us drive
home with her at once—precautions appeared necessary in the interest of
truth—the lady first of all explained that her house was some way off,
and when we persisted in our request her confidence abated considerably and
she gradually admitted that although she had seen me quite distinctly in a vision,
on this occasion she had not written down anything about it. It is obvious that
falsification of memory and a habit of romancing played an extraordinarily great
part in this lady's case. The following case shows how easily simple things may be misinterpreted and expanded into something wonderful, how easily a perfectly straightforward process may be turned into an act of clairvoyance, and on the other hand how simply this can be explained. One day a married woman was missed from a village in North Germany. About three days later her son said he had dreamed that his mother had been murdered at.a spot lying between the villages A. and B. The boy mentioned his dream to several people, who related it farther. A search OCCULTISM. 525 was made for the body, and it was found at a short distance from the high road running from A. to B.—i.e., where the boy had seen it in his dream. The authorities who were conducting the investigation now sent to tell me the facts of the case and to ask my advice, particularly with respect to the boy's dream. The official who called on me, explained in a very matter of fact way that the authorities considered the affair incredible and very remarkable. As they wished their investigations to be as complete as possible, they were anxious to have the advice of an expert, and therefore sent to me for my opinion. The details of the case that came out were extremely interesting. In the first place, it was discovered that the boy had given different accounts of his dream. Thus, he said he had also seen the murderers in his dream, but the description he gave of them, even as to their number, varied at each recital. He also gave different versions of the way in which his mother was murdered, and the only |
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