ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

538 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
whatever followed to the cylinder tho I breathed rather heavily
and hard behind the book and through my nose.
I then placed my hands on each side of the cylinder and it
soon began to rotate, holding my breath altogether. It-revolved
two revolutions from left to right, paused and went back a few
degrees and then rotated again with two revolutions from left
to right. I then took my hands away and it paused and while I
was making my notes it revolved one revolution from right to
left and paused. I then put my hands again near it and it rotated
once from left to right And then went back from right to left
about half a revolution. I took my hands away again and in a
moment it made one revolution from right to left, paused and
stopped entirely. I waited a few moments, took my hands away
and it did not move. I then put my hands back to it and held
them some moments, but no motion took place.
I then •lit a match and held it on the right side near the
cylinder and in a few moments it made one rotation. I then lit
two matches and held on each side, but it did not rotate. It only
quavered a little.
In the evening I tried the experiment again with coins under
the pin. No motion occurred when holding my hands on each
side of the cylinder. No rotatory motions whatever occurred.
I then tried first a lighted match on one side and after I drew it
away the cylinder made a three quarters rotation. I then tried
a match simultaneously on both sides and no motion took place
except the swaying of the lower edge and end of the cylinder.
I had less evidence than before that he;tt would revolve the
cylinder. Of course the heat of the matches was many degrees
more than my hands and created far greater air currents about
the cylinder, but they produced no appreciable effect in the way
of rotation save the once mentioned. No less interesting was
the failure to get any rotation by the hands. Now and then
when holding the hands near it there was incipient rotation but
soon inhibited, and I noticed that it was sudden and was not
what I should expect an air current to produce. But on the
whole I cannot be sure that I have anything but capricious air
currents, tho they were systematic enough to make one doubt
caprice of any kind.
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