From India to the planet Mars : a study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia / by Th. Flournoy ; translated by Daniel B. Vermilye.

  • Flournoy, Théodore, 1854-1920.
Date:
1900
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Credit: From India to the planet Mars : a study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia / by Th. Flournoy ; translated by Daniel B. Vermilye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    my bed. Somewhat frightened, I looked around, but saw nothing. I tried to go to sleep, but again many raps were struck, this time near my head. I seated myself on my bed (I was agitated), trying to discover what was happening, and hardly had I seated myself when I saw a hand shaking my lost breastpin before my eyes. This vision lasted only a minute, but that was long enough for it to make a deep impression upon me. The following Tuesday evening (ten days after the loss of the trinket) Helene held a seance at the house of M. Cuendet, at which two other persons were also present. She told of the loss of her pin and the curious vision above described ; then all seated them- selves at the table. After a typtological dictation upon an altogether different subject, the following incident occurred, the account of which 1 have bor- rowed from notes taken by M. Cuendet (it was in 1894, and 1 only knew Mile. Smith by reputation at the time): We notice that from the beginning of the seance Mile. Smith describes to us our familiar spirit [Leo- pold] as holding a lantern in his hand. Why ? The table is shaken anew, about to tell us something. The following is then dictated to us by it : 'Arise. Take a lantern. Extend your walk to the Municipal Building. Take the path which crosses the meadow, and which ends at the Street of the Baths. In the middle of the path, to the left, a few yards distant, a block of white stone will be found. Starting from the block of stone, only one yard away from it, towards the setting sun, the pin so much sought for will be found. Go, I accompany you.'