But subdued in spirit as they are, the attacks of hypnotists would be
terribly felt by most nuns.

Father H.'s apparition was seen by Miss Langton in a dream or vision.
She recognised him when she met him three months later; he may have been
shadowed by some of the hypnotists for purposes of information; and the
idea that he should be begged to aid in blessing the house and banning
the haunters, may have been a thought transferred by a hypnotist to Miss
Freer, who is liable to thought transfer, and is a good transferrer
herself. Why should not a nun's apparition be transferred as was Father
H.'s (to Miss Langton)?

It appears that valiant resistance can inflict this possession upon
hypnotists as well as the horrors of a hard and disgusting victory do.

Perhaps the Scin-laeca of Bulwer's "Harold," the apparition of Cerdic,
haunted the imaginations of generations of magicians. These were possibly
Celts; only one witch-rune on a Saxon sword was found; that was in the
Isle of Wight. It was, Professor Stephens said, a solitary instance, as
the brave Germans thought magic the art of a coward. The hypnotism from
which all the garrison suffered was a slight hypnotism; the eyes remained
open and people went about behaving almost normally. Father B. lost his
self-control for an instant. Some people would have to be tricked in a
complicated way. Thought transfer--audible to the person affected alone,
or even inaudible but perceptible like a thought--accounts for the whole
of Mrs. Piper's operations; she might have accomplices who would never be
seen speaking to her, and who would dictate actions, say, to one of the
Pelham or Howard family. These dictated actions, or inchoate plans, would
then be reported by Mrs. Piper writing as George Pelham. What Mrs. Piper
saw or felt or heard would be--at least at stated times--seen or felt or