The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-06-04

the mediums lett arm, ana seemed JC
try to climb up the table, where it at
length deposited itself. In this very
common trick of her the foot and
left hand, sometimes the foot alone
brings the object out of the cabinet
and hand finally pushes it upon the
table.
Other movements in the cabinet
are caused in various ways. Some-
times she will gradually work her
chair back until it is in contact with
objects in the cabinet which are
touching still other objects. Pushing
the chair little will then make the
noises. At one of our sittings in the
physical laboratory at Columbia Uni
versity at midnight, strange sounds
were heard at the top of the cabinet
at a point evidently beyond her reach.
Here, at last, was something "eviden-
tial" but we found afterward, IN
examination, that the sides of the
cabinet were loosely fastened to the
sides of the door in which the cabi-
net had been constructed, and that
she had got hold OF the loose edge
with her left hand and was shaking
the whole cabinet, making it knock
against it's holdings above.
But she makes some movements
without either hands or feet. On one
occasion at midnight, in one of
our sittings in Fayerweather Hail.
she was securely held and nothing
was happening. Suddenly, however,
there came strange, supernatural
noises from the top of the cabinet,
quite beyond her reach. On examina-
ton afterward we found that the cur
tains hung in the doorway had been
nearly to the board put across the top
of it; that this board was vertically
sawed half through in the middle,
and that by pulling on the curtains
which she had clutched in her hands,
which were being held on her lap,
she had made one portion of the
board rub against the other and the
curtain strain on it's nails. Hence the
preternatural sounds.
Spirit Rapping Simple.
We next came to the raps. These
are mysterious enough. The medium
early in the sitting will tap or thump
three times and listen! Three faint,
dull, but unmistakable raps or fluids
are heard in reply. They seem to
come from under the table, as if some
hand were making them against it's
surface. But both the mediums hands
are visible in a good light on or above
the table. She bids us put our ears
to the middle of the table Or, again,
the medium, or you at her request,
makes three light raps and three
sharp ones are made in re-
Spouse, not under the table, but near
by, from some indefinable quarter
Or, once more, the medium rubs or
on the top of the table and
a dun scratching is heard below.
These effects are produced in two
ways. Having freed her left foot, by
substitution, she raps it against the
left leg of the table about three in
ches above the floor. She always tries
to have a resonant table that will
conduct sounds we'll, so that the lis
tening ear applied to the upper sur
face cannot tell just where they or
iginate. The scratching is done with
the left foot against the table leg in
similar way. The outer side of her
shoe extends we'll beyond the sole, so
that she can make a dull noise in
rapping though the sole is on. How
ever, there is much testimony trat |
she often has her shoe OFF, and Mr.. |
Rim feels sure that she does the
sometimes with the stock
inged foot.
The other way of producing raps |
Is a very old trick. One hand rests |
On the corner of the table. The skin
Of one finger is pressed against the
liable and then suddenly made to slip
fraction of an inch. This causes
he sound, l have heard Eusapia do
his so often and the sound has come
so Enthusiastically from the hand that
should have no doubt even if l had
cot learned how to do the trick my
self.
One Battling Wonder.
The most battling of all her won.
iers to us were the levitations. We
I'll sit around the table, and our hands
est lightly upon it. The table tits
lightly first toward one side, then
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