Cock Lane and Common-Sense - Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (Project Gutenberg, 2004)
Preface -- Introduction -- Savage spiritualism -- Ancient spiritualism -- Comparative psychical research -- Haunted houses -- Cock Lane and common-sense -- Apparitions, ghosts, and hallucinations -- Scrying or crystal-gazing -- The second sight -- Ghosts before the law -- A modern trial for witchcraft -- Presbyterian ghost hunters -- The logic of table-turning -- The ghost theory of the origin of religion.
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Keywords: Parapsychology -- Early works to 1900; Ghosts