ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

540 hJUrnal of the American Society for Psychical &search.
would not -budge in any way whatever. But as soon as I placed
the pin point on the coin it rotated one revolution promptly
without my holding my hands near it, tho I was as close to it as
before, about one foot. Then it came to a stop and remained
still. I then put my hands in position, one on each side of it
and an inch and a half from it. After a pause of perhaps a
minute or two, it began and rapidly rotated one revolution from
left to right and stopped again. Then it started to rotate from
right to left, paused again and then rapidly rotated about ninety
degrees to the right when it ceased and only wavered until I left
to make this note. While I was making the note I saw it revolving
slightly, but it soon stopped and did not budge afterward.
Motion toward it to take the chair will make it swing or
waver a little but not rotate, a fact which shows that the fprce
that moves it is different from that which makes it rotate.
I then tried it again, sitting down very carefully so as not to
disturb the cylinder. I was specially careful in placing my hands.
For a minute the cylinder did not budge and then it began rotatory
oscillations back and forth for a few degrees and then made
a rather rapid spurt for forty-five degrees each way and then
stopped again and re1t,1ained almost absolutely passive for some
minutes when I ceased, to make this note. I removed my hands
very cautiously and watched it to see what w9uld happen. It at
once began to rotate and made one revolution from right to left
and then stopped and remained perfectly calm.
After a pause I started to sit down again and before I had
done so the cylinder began to rotate from left to right and made
half a revolution and stopped again when I came away to make
this note.
I sat down cautiously again and placed my hands. At once
it began to rotate and made half a revolution from left to right,
paused and went about forty-five degrees further forward and
returned at once about the same distance, paused and went forward
again to the right about forty-five degrees. I removed my
hands and it became perfectly still again. All the time I was
making my notes I was about three and a half feet away.
I again placed my hands in position and in a few moments
it began suddenly to rotate from left to right and made half a
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