BY
ELLIOTT O'DONNELL
AUTHOR OF
"SOME HAUNTED HOUSES OF ENGLAND AND WALES,"
"HAUNTED HOUSES OF LONDON," "GHOSTLY PHENOMENA,"
"DREAMS AND THEIR MEANINGS," "SCOTTISH GHOST TALES,"
"TRUE GHOST TALES," ETC., ETC.
WILLIAM RIDER AND SON, LIMITED
164 Aldersgate St., London, E.C.
1911
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | THE UNKNOWN BRAIN | 1 |
| 2. | THE OCCULT IN SHADOWS | 21 |
| 3. | OBSESSION, POSSESSION | 28 |
| 4. | OCCULT HOOLIGANS | 47 |
| 5. | SYLVAN HORRORS | 56 |
| 6. | COMPLEX HAUNTINGS AND OCCULT BESTIALITIES | 80 |
| 7. | VAMPIRES, WERE-WOLVES, FOX-WOMEN, ETC. | 110 |
| 8. | DEATH-WARNINGS AND FAMILY GHOSTS | 132 |
| 9. | SUPERSTITIONS AND FORTUNES | 153 |
| 10. | THE HAND OF GLORY; THE BLOODY HAND OF ULSTER; THE SEVENTH SON; BIRTH-MARKS; NATURE'S DEVIL SIGNALS; PRE-EXISTENCE; THE FUTURE; PROJECTION; TELEPATHY; ETC. | 176 |
| 11. | OCCULT INHABITANTS OF THE SEA AND RIVERS | 198 |
| 12. | BUDDHAS AND BOGGLE CHAIRS | 210 |
| INDEX | 244 | |
Whether all that constitutes man's spiritualnature, that is to say, ALL his mind, is inseparablyamalgamated with the whitish mass of soft matterenclosed in his cranium and called his brain, is aquestion that must, one supposes, be ever opento debate.
One knows that this whitish substance is thecentre of the nervous system and the seat of consciousnessand volition, and, from the constantstudy of character by type or by phrenology, onemay even go on to deduce with reason that inthis protoplasmic substance—in each of the numerouscells into which it is divided and subdivided—arelocated the human faculties. Hence, it wouldseem that one may rationally conclude, that allman's vital force, all that comprises his mind—i.e.the power in him that conceives, remembers,reasons, wills—is so wrapped up in the actualmatter of his cerebrum as to be incapable of existingapart from it; and that as a natural sequence