On the other hand, in three cases where attacks were defeated, the
subjects were happily married men, and in two, if not in the three (the
third case the writer gathered at second hand and fortunately remembered
later), they had children. On the third visit of Miss Freer to B---- that
lady notes that "the influence is evil and horrible. The worn features at
breakfast were really a dismal sight."[27]

[Footnote 27: "Haunting of B----House," p. 210.]

On this occasion it looks as if more than three persons (Miss Langton on
the 19th of February had noted three voices) were engaged in the attack.

The writer has no doubt, from personal and observed experience, that
sometimes transfer is used, but is doubtful to what extent.

Boxes on the ear, slaps on the back, nay a flip as with a towel on the
bare back, are felt, the last even by a clothed person. In Poltergeist
cases, as in Alice's, a slap on the back was felt; perhaps she
hypnotised Miss K. and slapped her on the back and transferred the slap
to her (Alice's) mother.

This would be like the two engineer students' case, where the hypnotised
one appeared to a friend.

In Poltergeist cases, one person perhaps does the mischief; in inferior
haunted house cases two would be enough. The Poltergeist raisers are
often subject to fits; the people who are vicious attackers, like the
assailants of the occupants of B----, must be semi-maniacs. The terror
is sometimes brought about by two people operating; one producing a