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334 <strong>Journal</strong> of the American Society for Psychical Research.<br />

What is that?<br />

at that lurid sky.<br />

that fire. '<br />

(Oh.)<br />

[Pause.] Oh, Oh !<br />

[Pause and distress.]<br />

[Pain in face.] Oh look<br />

Oh, Oh ! You can't see<br />

[Pause. Left hand of medium put on her eyes.] Oh. [Pause.]<br />

I see ships on the water. [Pause.]<br />

(Whose are they?)<br />

Wait a minute. My God [great mental tension.] Oh, it is a<br />

foreign city, just like, not France, another city, a city where it is so<br />

hot, such narrow streets and such blue, blue sky and people are<br />

dressed in such strange costumes. Their garments are not like<br />

American or French or German or Russian or English. It is<br />

Moorish . . . What is Moorish? It is where they are Moorish.<br />

[Pause.] They fight like demons. [Pause and distress.] But it is<br />

quick. They are repulsed, lying dead everywhere and the streets,<br />

right in the streets there is fire, fire, the women are screaming and<br />

running. [Pause.]<br />

I don't know what Moorish is. * * [Word or two lost because<br />

not spoken clearly.] Oh yes. [Puts both hands over her<br />

face.] I can't see it. It makes me sick. Is Turkey and Moorish<br />

alike?<br />

(Yes.)<br />

Has Turkey got a seaport?<br />

(Yes.)<br />

Oh I see a great battleship <strong>com</strong>ing right in here to take a seaport.<br />

(Whose?)<br />

England I think. Is England's battleships like ours?<br />

(I don't know.)<br />

Well. I don't know what it is. It is American. It is not German.<br />

Oh it is ... [face turned away.] I don't know if it is ours, but<br />

it is all the same. Please let me go. [7]<br />

7. It is not possible to attach evidential value to the vision of foreign<br />

habits and manners. Reading might account for them. tho I do not think<br />

it actually does so, as the habits of the subliminal in its pictograph are in<br />

favor of foreign stimulus even when the pictures are supplied by memory.<br />

The allusion to Moorish sights seems to be unrecognizable to the subliminal<br />

itself, tho this may be the term only, as it is probable that Mrs. Chenoweth<br />

has seen Moorish things without knowing them under that name. She does<br />

not seem to know the connection with affairs Turkish.<br />

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