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He arrived, with his attendant, about six months ago; and since then things have gone from bad to worse. There has been crystal-gazing and star-worship and necromancy of all sorts. I confess I didn't understand very much of it," he added. "It was all so wild and weird; but it ended not only in Mr.
I am in great perplexity, and I want you to discover something from the crystal. Are you in the mood this afternoon? For I have enough of the temperament myself to know that crystal-gazing, even more than literary composition, must wait on mood.
Or they would encourage the Polynesian belief that the 'spirit' of the thing or person looked for is suspended by a god over the water, crystal, blood, ink, or whatever it may be. Thus, to anthropologists, the discovery of crystal-gazing as a thing widely diffused and still flourishing ought to be grateful, however much they may blame my childish credulity.
But because of Lennox the whole matter has preoccupied me and quite as much, I daresay, as it has distressed you." "I don't see at all what you have to do with it." "Perhaps not. But preoccupation may lead to crystal-gazing. Now I will wager a red pippin that I can tell what you said at the steeplechase to the steeplestakes. You asked after his father." Verelst stared.
"You were over-wrought, Miss Vaughan," he said, "and straight from a spell of crystal-gazing. No wonder it impressed you. But it was really only a clever trick." "I realise, now, that it must have been a trick," she agreed; "but at the time it seemed an unquestionable proof of his divine power.
To get at them, medical psychologists make use of hypnotism, automatic writing, crystal-gazing in short, of any method which will force an entrance into that higher time-world, whereby the forgotten past may become the present.
We pushed, and inside was a room, with a young woman in white, crystal-gazing as hard as she could. She had also a velvet cushion on which you laid your hand, and she told your character and your fortune. Some people in historical dress were ready to come out just as we were going in, and one of them said, "It's Madame Cortelyn. Mrs.
The experiences of Miss X. in crystal-gazing have been told at length and in detail in the "Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society."
The reference in the recent edition is p. 289. Mrs. Sidgwick, pp. 30, 356; vol. vi. p. 66, Professor Richet, p. 407, Drs. Among savage methods of provoking hallucinations whence knowledge may be supernormally obtained, various forms of 'crystal-gazing' are the most curious. I have already given, in the Introduction, Ellis's record of the Polynesian case.
It was intolerable this feeling of being caged up! A sense of anger crept through his mind. It almost seemed that Lillian had brought him there to prove that she had finished with him had cast him aside, having used him for the day's excitement as she had used her poodles, her Persian cats, her crystal-gazing. All at once the impotency and uncertainty of his position goaded him.
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