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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER XIV
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Where facts and experience, whether real or hallucinatory experience, end, where the mythopoeic fancy comes in, readers may decide for themselves.
Footnotes: {0a} Principles of Psychology, vol.ii., p.115.

By Professor William James, Harvard College, Macmillan's, London, 1890.

The physical processes believed to be involved, are described on pp.

123, 124 of the same work.
{0b} Op.cit., ii., 130.
{4} Story received from Miss -- -; confirmed on inquiry by Drumquaigh.
{5a} Phantasms of the Living, ii., 382.
{5b} To "send" a dream the old Egyptians wrote it out and made a cat swallow it! {8} See "Queen Mary's Jewels" in chapter ii.
{10} Narrated by Mrs.Herbert.
{11a} Story confirmed by Mr.A.
{11b} This child had a more curious experience.

Her nurse was very ill, and of course did not sleep in the nursery.


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