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• /SPIRITUAL SOIENTIST. 61
AIII07I(1 the ~8 in India.
J. M. l'eebles said, In speaking of the Fa~
kirs in India, be bad ~n one of their 8depl~
raise a mango-tree from a seed that be had
exwninea and shaken. Tho man bad no aceompll""s
or confederate., "ore little cloUling,
and performed the feat in tbe ligbt on th~
sue..1. Haviog taken the seed from a small
bag be placed it in the sand and made a cirele
nrouod II.. lie spriokled it witb water,spread
a wbite handkerobief o.er the top of the
whole, began to shake 'p3Smodlcally, milking
passes o.erit with bis hand. and wltlla smN)
stiel< like a "and, with wbich he described
more cireles io the .... nd. "hpo presently hc'
saw, something presslog tbe handkerebid o~
wards, whlcb. on being remo.ed, revealed a
small but perfect mango· tree. , On examina.
tion he fonnd It a geoulno tree, aod having
pulled it from tb" sand. It was .... n tbat the
seed badblirst and bad enot forth many roo,,"
, I~I. and .eeds. They must remember' that
tbls w .... In daylight. and out of doors, Where
,no deceptloo could be practised; and, bavlng
seen those things, be belie.ed tbem to be gnlIine.
ne did oot say how they were prodnced.
whether tbey were materiallzatioDs by
,spiritual power or "stlmulatiog cif the forcea
of natW'iI J'riestll 0/ I>ldler..
Says J. M. Peebles: While in Madras I
... a .... eral dayethe guest of Mr." D. S. White,
residing in Kilpauk. ,This gentleman; connected
with tho, Uoard of Education, and
. A •• istant Uegi.lrar uf A.surancee, Is a free-'
thinker on all matters I'Cligious and political.
Accompanied by him, two Eurasiao gnUeman
connected with the publicatioo of the
Anglo-Indian, anf! a lew others, I repaired
. to a native's house, to see the pheDomena or
casting out a demon aOlong the lower class of
lIlndus Tho Bubject was a ... oman, and not,
I confess, a .ery prepoa&iog one. Iler eye
was doll; the surface of the hand cool, moist:
clammy, and the whole ,!ppearanco .tupid in
tb. 'extreme. Inquiring of the mol her,
through my Interpreter, Ilearncd' that this
young woman had, in the flrn place, opells of
,being very sil.nt, of looking InloTaeaney,
and refusing to notiCt! her friends. 'I'hese
... peculiarities. ",ere followed ,by trembllngs.,
whirling motions 01 Ibe head. and otber ob­
, •••• iooal conduct. till 'she relused 10 bathe,
10 combe her hair or .peak. It was prol\ounced,.
"possession by a dumb devil. tt
They sent for a "devil priest," 118 they fllmiliarly
term them, ooe gifled wilh the power
of t'xorciam; lie eould not IItteod, and', after
lome waiting a ··priestess"· cume, ODd tben
another. A cirele was drown In the aaod in
fre,\1 of tbe bllt, ooe of these medinmlatic
women slepplng Iosiele of the elrcnJ .... ,area
became epasmod!c, tbe heai) began to whirl;
sho waa ooon entranced, ahd called for cainphor.
A rude lamp of coCoa·nut oU waa born­
Ing just outside the cirel~, and th .. Ineense'
smoke of the camphor eame from the interior
of tbe cirele. A I tbla polot another WOQlaD,
WIIS entranced by a spirit speaking a different
dialecr.. 'And no,w wbUe tile Incens .. amoke
'waa,dying a\9ay, Ihey'brougbt and placied the
ob.eased Tamil woman witbiu the area of the
eirel". Then followed Mlde music, with
tbr..alcniogs and coaxing>! oJ Ibe demonlaca1
spirit to lo".e. It """ .. failure. And now,
wlexpeetedly to Mr. While, his servant woman
who had boen In his employ for twelve
years, was .uddeoly E'otranced, constituting
herself master of the eeroinonies. 'This servant
woman, Mrs. Anthraci, declared that the
otber woman failed becanse cootrolled by evil
spirits. She then commanded the drc ..'of the.
obsessed woman to be chan~d, a new mat to
bo pl""ed for ber to ait upon, tbegreen branch
from a t",o to be brought, and some fraokinceose
to be burned. It was all done. Then
sbe hat Ibe obse88ed wumAn's body with a
, rod" ~'pathetl2ed" her bead, invoked tho gods,
etc., ele., aod "tbe dumb dovil left." This
was one of the many pbeoomena I witne .. ed
among th~iv.er aod poorer classes •
A CORRESPONDENT of tb'e Bmul Sp!rlte
of Jannary, states tba~ he has a slate written
upOo In fl •• diff..-ent lanawrues ID the
usual manner that Mr. Slade obtalna these
manifestati008 •
The Ueaearch Committee of the British
Natiooal Assoclatlun of. I:Iplrltnallsts, has
mounted a cabioet on a weighing machine,
to a.'lCertaln wbat change In the weight of
a medium takes place while Variuul maulIea-
,tatlon,; are going 00. ' , , ,
TilE, "1-'0" ,slstel'8," through whom the
manlfe.tatlooe of modem Splritnallsm Jlrst
began 'In America, are now In London, and
their power Ie strOll!! as e'er. SlInday, at
'South KlnsioglOo. ssys. the editor ot the,
I. 8 •• in lI-'!2. we heard raps loud enongb to
bA audible In tbs passage outside tbe closed
door of tbe 'room, through the medlumahlp
of Mrs. 11. D. Jenckeo (Kate Fox). .