wanting in scepticism. Probably Miss Freer, subject to thought
transference, and yet a thought transferrer, as she is, was interested in
the effect on Miss "K." of the Catholic maid-servant. Nothing more
interesting than the transfer of thought by Miss Freer to a friend, who
therefore saw candles lighted on a lunch table, could be found, but here
again the experience seems simply hypnotic. The chapters in her essays on
visualising,[12] on "how it once came into my head," are very valuable.
Those on hauntings are grave and gay, comments on realities and errors
and superstitious, sometimes charming, beliefs. Miss Freer says of the
visions which she sees of persons in the crystal, or otherwise, that they
are (1) visions of the living--clairvoyant or telepathic; (2) visions of
the departed, having no obvious relation to time and space; (3) visions
which are more or less of the nature of pictures, from memory or
imagination: they are like No. 2, but not of a person.

[Footnote 12: A. Goodrich Freer's "Essays," p. 126.]

Her most remarkable stories are certainly almost magical. One refers to
her seeing the doings of relations, another to her seeing a friend's
doings.[13] "The figures do not appear" (she says, referring to
the B---- apparitions) "before 6.30 at the earliest; there is little
light on their surfaces--they show by their own light--_i.e._ outlined by
a thread of light."[14]

[Footnote 13: "Haunting of B----House," p. 102.]

[Footnote 14: _Ibid._, p. 142.]

She does not see things in a flash. Thus when she saw a brown wood
crucifix, she saw a hand holding it, whilst a clergyman who saw the same