Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-06-11
| STARTLING PHENOMENA.
A QUARTET OF MOST REMARK
ABLE OCCURRENCES.
Were They Hallucinations?-A woman
Sees Her Own wrath-The spirit
of a Living Wife visits Her
Mourning Husband.

The most familiar species OF halluci-
nations-though not by any means
the only species-consists OF the ap-
partitions of dying persons occurring
simultaneously with the death, to rel
atives of friends at distance.
Such apparition is, on the one hahu'
clearly hallucinatory impression.
saws the New Review. The perciplent
apparently sees the clothed body OF
human being occupying a portion OF
space which is. in fact, not so occupied;
at the same time it is, in a sense,
..veridical," or truth-telling impress
sion, since it suggests that something
remarkable is happening to the human
being so seen, and it afterward be
comes known that something remark
able and unexpected did in fact nap
pen to him at the time.
The question then is whether this
coincidence is merely accidental or
whether it indicates that the external
event and the apparition are really
connected as cause and effect
A lady relates case as when she
was walking along a familiar road one
night in 1885, after spending the even
! ing with a friend. 1t was full moon,
and, as she approached cross with
which popular tradition associated UNI
canny rumors, but which she had often
passed at night without seeing any
! thing, she saw, as she supposed, a
tramp sitting on stone opposite to 1t.
| As she drew nearer she perceived that
| it was a female figure and, as it was
bitterly cold she wentup to the woman
to awake her. l now give her own
words:
with bewilderment l recognized
| the dress l was myself wearing on the
{ creature on whose shoulder was about
to place my hand. At that moment it
| raised it's head looked tiXedly at me
with my own cOuntenance and van
ished. An icy shudder passed over
| me. y"
This lady had on a previous occa-
sion seen "a figure of herself, which she
at first took for another person, till i,
turned its face on her and vanished.
In neither case was there any external
event, simultaneous or subsequent,
that the most ingenious superstition
could connect with the apparition.
| Now turn to the coincidental cases.
l will first give well-attested speci,
men of an apparition occurring within
few hours of the death OF the person
seen. give it in the percipient's OWE
words:
''In the spring and summer OF 1886
I often visited poor woman, called
Evans, who lived in our parish. She
was very i'll with painful disease, anc
it was as she said. a great pleasure
when l went to see her, and frequent
ly sat with her and read to her. Tow
ard the middle of October she wa:
evidently growing weaker. but there
seemed no immediate danger.
IL had not called on her for severa
days, and one evening was standing
in the dining room, after dinner, witt
the rest of the family, when saw the
figure of woman, dressed like Mrs
Evans, in large apron and muslin cap
pass across the room from one door tt
the other where she disappeared.
said Who is thatp' My mother said
What do you mean? and said, Tina
woman who has just come in ant
walked over to the other door, The,
all laughed at me and said l wa
dreaming. But I felt sure it was Mrs
Evans, and next morning we heard sh
was dead"