The element of truth in popular beliefs / T. Lauder Brunton.

  • Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The element of truth in popular beliefs / T. Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and hallucinations as well as visions of ghosts and fairies may be regarded as forms of waking dreams. The signs which were regarded in the Middle Ages as distinctive of witchcraft are now looked upon as symptoms of hysteria, and the condition of hysteria may perhaps be defined to be one in which impressions originating within the body itself tend to overpower those transmitted from without by the usual sensory channels. The phenomena of thought reading and of the divining rod may in many cases be explained by the fact that sensory impressions may be received and may lead to action without rising into complete consciousness in the individual who receives them. [T. L. B.]
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