The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-19

a particularly pious and proper turn of
mind so that their gratuitous ballet was
presumably wasted on him. Nicolai of
Berlin, a very leVel-headed saVant, was
troubled for two months with the vision
of a corpse. THE hallucination lasted as
"A rule exactly eight minutes. and the body
was apparently always steady at UNI
form Instance of about ten feet from the
observer. This trouble superYened sud
denly after violent quarrel in which Mic
OLAF had been engaged. Ultimately the
corpse and all the poor mans other de-
lusions were driven back to their own
sphere by the prosaic attacks of leeches on
the temples. This treatment was also
most effective in dispelling the visions of
a certain clergyman in Hampshire late
in the last century. He habitually engag-
ed in personal encounters with the Devil,
until the leeches drove the foul fiend out
of his visual field. Dr. Bostock, the
psychologist saw the heads of his friends
lin relief like medallionS." Curiously
enough he could never conjure up their
bodies.
The great Napoleon was. as is generally
known, invariably attended by a star.
time, and 1t is said to have been first re-
lated by Gen. Rapp, who, on visiting the
monarch's tent at night, found Bonaparte
excitedly pointing to corner Of the tent.
crying, do you see that? My star! IL is
shining there before your At the period
of the Reformation, wrestling with the
evil one in propria persona was by no
means an uncommon exercise. Luther
several times INDUCED in these combats
Mr. Lecky tells us of the young monk who
rushed up to Saints Pachonius and Palae-
mon in the desert. and told them excitedly
of the beautiful woman who had tempted
him in his cell, and, having worked her
purpose" had vanished miraculously in
the air, leaving him half dead upon the
ground. The story goes on TO say that
the young monk with a wild shrek
broke away from his sanity listeners
and rushed across the desert till he arriv-
ed at the next village, and there leaped
into the open furnace OF the public baths
and perished In the flames"
Gazette was reported to have habitually
dreamed with his eyes open, so that at
the dinner party, when he suddenly said
that he saw Condorcet, who was one of
the guests, in prison, and taking poison
TO avoid the headman's ak, nobody paid
much attention. The event, however, hap
pened within two years under the precise
circumstances described. La Harpes
graphic description of this repetition of
the Feast of Belshazzar Is too long for
quotation, but thoroughly deserves to be
read. Lycanthropy-or the Illusion of the
were-wof-and vampyrism were matters
mont states that vampyrism can be traced
In Talmudic writings; but in this Il seems
probable that his Imagination found hid
den meanings where none was intended.
In the early part OF the present century
peasant In the east Of France, the
home OF the were-wolyes par excellence,
was afflicted with an Unsuitable appetite
for carrion, more especially human re-
mains in an advanced state of decompo-
sitlon. a similar case was reported In the
Lancet In the late forties of the present
century. In this instance the ghoul was
a French soldier Such instances as tins
must OF necessity have impressed the SUI
perstitious peasants with the idea OF the
human wolff and from this conception
TO the seeing of a man-wolf was but a
short step. The Fata Morgana and many
other visual hallucinations have been
traced directly to peculiar combinations
OF light rays; while the state Of the at
mosphere Is undoubtedly Responsible for
those phenomena known as mirages.
The present writer once observed a pc
culiar phenomenon, in the form Of a cone
or light which passed each night across
darkened room. There was at first no
percepuble cause for its appearance. IL
was FOUND, however, TO result from the
Image of candle flame passing a window
In the house on the opposite side OF the
street. A flaw In the glass OF the window
In a way that would have been impossfllie
had the glass been In a plane. In fact. a
lens was thus formed which by a strange