The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-10-12
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Commercial Advertiser.
WEDNESDAY. OCT IL.

DEDlNLCDA WI
WE copy the following scrap frcm the Sp'r'fnc1
Telegraph, as a fair specimen of the kind OF mate
rial that fills many of the spiritualist papers OF the
present day. We presume there was no tarih OF
:. three dollars a gallon on 'spirits" in the
state where this was written:
And our spirit, or the spiritual degree OF our
mind, can, by its spiritual hands and fingers q. e.
bv our spiritual powers, which our hands and myers
are the natural forms off, make inger-marks upon a
lump of butter, or dent a dropsical swelling. FOR
the shape of our natural fingers are determined oy
the spiritual of their shape, which is the spiritual OF
their use: hence the print of our spiritual nhgers Ut
nowers unon butter. etc, must be of the same shape
as the print of our natural fingers by our spiritual
hands and fingers we can, therefore, snap or 'iora'e
the strings of a harp or other instrument, by way OF
nroducinp sound, as well as by our natural nngers.
And II Seems evident that our spirits in the body
operate by the same spiritual hands and fingers as
spirits do who are out of the body IN the other ne.
/ submit, therefore, that the senses OF spirits out Oh
the BODY being spiritual, can be impressed only py
srir;,naI ,b;nes- and hence it seems that their minds
cannot be affected to do use, or manifest themselves
by natural things"
II is perhaps not generally known among tor
eigners that there has long existed a belief among
the Hawaiian race, very Similar in its purport to
that of the spiritualist doctrine among the whites;
and many stories are told of the curious freaks
and startling manifestations of the invisible denl-
zens of another world. Indeed, it would seem
that the more ignorant people are, the more sus-
ceptible they are to these spiritualist or ghost de-
lusions. The most recent ease which has come to
our notice, is that of a haunted house, in Wal
mea, Hawaii, in which it is said nobody could
remain any considerable length of time without
becoming crazy. The people who formerly lived
in the house became insane, their successors fol-
lowed their example, and a great number OF ma
tiyes who visited them. were seized with the same
complaint. All lost their right senses-some for
a brief period only, some for a longer time, and
several, perhaps, for life. During the crazy
gatherings there, sticks and stones, and articles
of clothing, would be tossed, SO goes the story, all
about the room, by unseen hands; and In some
cases with sufficient violence to bruise and injure
those present. The house finally became the ter
ror of the neishborhood and no one dared ap-
proach it after dark. At length two courageous
men. who had ridiculed the idea of asupsrnataral
agency, resolved to pass a night in it and prove
the fallacy of the popular belief Before mid
night, both were raving maniacs; and one OF
them ran away into the woods, where he was
found naked and almost dead from hunger and
a day or two afterwards Since that
time ND TO within three months since, the house
had not been used, and no person could be per-
suaded to sleep in it. These circumstances were
related to us as facts by a credible authority-a
Waimea gentleman, who believed them to be
true, though he did not presume to explain them.
He was, however, quite confident that neither
okoLehao nor potato beer, had any connection
with the phenomena.
-S.-- :. Foll ahonf n native on one nj
the windward islands, who in IA vision saw an
army of dead men marching past HIM with war
clubs and drums, and with kdhiH's waving tri-
over their heads. One of the men
upon seeing the native, stepped forth from the
ranks and struck him on the forehead with his
telling him to the earth. When he re-
covered, the army had passed away and there
only remained a dun pain in his head as a me-
mento of what had occurred, and as an Indication
of his approaching death. The poor man really
began to pine away, and doubtless would have
survived but a few weeks had not his hopes been
raised by the counsel of a native doctor or priest.
80 You must CO." said the priest, 20 Honolulu.
Upon your arrival, hasten at once = a certain
place near the big stone church, and seek the
man who struck you. when you have found
him you must get his permission for you to return
the blow. If he is willing, there will be no fur
Their difficulty. You will recover at once. If he
is not willing, you will die. The poor man went
to Honolulu, found the man whose ghost he had
seen in his dream, gave him a gentle retaliatory
tap between his eyes, aud returned home, happy
in the belief that he had conquered fate.
Phenomena somewhat similar to table moving
and spirit %rapping, are said to occur occasionally
among the natives. Mediums exist, as they are
said to exist among the spiritual communities of
Europe and America. And here in Hawaii they
play the same silly tricks. and make fools of peo-
pie, just as much. perhaps a little more, than they
do in other lands.