Demon possession and allied themes; being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times

GENERAL INDEX.

Absurdities and rubbish found equally in old and new literature of the occult. Each reader to do his own sifting.

Acupuncture in exorcism.

Adjuration, its effect on demons. Tertullian; Cyprian.

Afflicted, the, in Salem witchcraft regarded as demoniacs.

Africa, possession in; witchcraft in.

Agrippa, Cornelius.

Ahab, demons in case of.

Ahriman.

Air, the habitat of demons.

Alford, Dean, his rendering of Gal. iii. 5.

American Psychical Society.

Angel, speaks; power of; guardian; manifestations of good angels; literature of angelology; Bible test of good angels.

Animism, Tylor on; Hammond on; persistence of this view.

A-priori reasoning upon the occult; A. R. Wallace on.

Apparitions, to G. Dittus; of Castor; of lambent lights; James on; Haweis on; Kant on; Positivist testimony as to reality of; literature of.

Appearance of demoniacs.

Apocatastasis, see Leonard Marsh.

Apollonius of Tyana.

Apotheosis of departed spirits.

Asia, possession theory in S. E. Asia.

Ashmore on Chinese spiritism.

Astrology.

Athanasius on exorcism.

Augustine on Platonic view of demons; on miracles.

Aura, peripheral nervous.

Aurelius, Marcus, use of word demon.

Author (J. L. Nevius), Introduction. Explanatory Note. Arrival in China, and incredulity as to demons. His teacher in the language the first witness. Removal to Shantung, Called on for exorcism. Issues circular.

Auto-hypnotism, see Hypnotism.

Automatic writing; case of Sydney Dean; Myers on. See Planchette, Mediumistic literature.

Baelz, Dr., his facts; his theory of possession by fox in Japan.

Baptist mission (English), testimony from.

Bastian, Dr., quoted by Tylor.

Beecher, Rev. Chas., note; also, Bibliograph. Index.

Beelzebub and Satan, interchangeable terms.

Belden, Dr., his case.

Bible, reading for exorcism. Furnishes key to difficulties; evidential value to Bible of these modern facts; five views examined of the Bible doctrine of possession; authority of Bible assumed by author; the sixth and author's view of Bible doctrine of possession; twenty-four points of correspondence between Bible cases and modern cases of possession. Bible account of spiritistic phenomena; Bible tests of the spirits; agreement of Bible with outside testimony; the various Greek words and equivalents used for evil spirits in New Testament; Satan and the demons; value of Bible testimony at its least estimate; Bible account of angelic appearances; Bible forbids communication with the dead; index of Bible passages referred to.

Biography, its contribution to data of the occult.

Birma, fever demon of.

Black Art.

Blasphemy of demons.

Blumhardt, John Christopher, his testimony; the man and his biography, see Bibliog. Index.

Bodily inflictions by demons; see physical.

Boehme.

Boston Public Library, literature of spiritism in.

Bourne, Rev. Ansel, case of alternating personality.

Brace, Chas. L., on primitive monotheism.

Brain, abnormal double action explained by its two halves; Dr. Baelz on this. Dr. James; Ribot and Griesinger; Wigan; Holland.

Brainerd, Rev. David, a case described by.

Brutes frightened by spirits; possessed by spirits.

Buckley, Dr. J. M.

Buddha.

Buddhism recognizes possession; exorcism by Buddhist sects.

Bushnell, Rev. Horace, on collecting data.

Cagliostro.

Canton.

Capital Code of Connecticut on witchcraft.

Cardan, Jerome.

Cardwell, Robert C., D. D., his testimony as to possessions in India.

Cases of possession. See Possession, and Index of cases; twenty-four points of correspondence between the Chinese and New Testament cases; fourteen points of correspondence with spiritualism.

Cerebration, unconscious.

Ceylon, Vedas of.

Chamberlain, Prof. B. H., on possession in Japan.

Chang Chwang Tien-ts, village.

Chang Kia Chwang, village.

Chang-lo, a district.

Chefoo.

Che-Kiang, province.

Chia-Sioh, a place.

Chi-Mi, a village.

China's Millions, quoted.

Chinese Christians, casting out spirits (see also Index of Cases). Their piety; who were formerly demoniacs; their belief in the reality of possession; unready with testimony; dispossession and faith healing among; their testimony; its value.

Chinese view of possession and of spirits.

Christ, his doctrine as to Satan; an expert who can be trusted.

Christian Faith, only defense against evil sprits; only link with the Spirit of God; endangered by seducing spirits.

Christian Fathers, their testimony quoted; Athanasius; Augustine; Clemens Alex.; Cyprian; Justin; Lactantius; Tertullian.

Christlieb, Theodore, endorses the possession theory.

Church Missionary Society's testimony.

Chwang-teo, village.

Cinnabar used in exorcism.

Circular letter from Nevius.

Clairvoyance.

Clemens Alex., on polyglottic powers of demons.

Clarke, Dr. Adam.

Classic authors cited: Aurelius; Favonius; Hesiod; Lucian; Plato; Pliny; Virgil; Xenophon.

Coke, Lord, third Institute quoted on witchcraft.

Coleman, Lyman.

Compact between witch and demon.

Compound, use of the term in the East.

Conclusion, author's.

Conclusion, general.

Confucian exorcism.

Connecticut capital code defines witch.

Conjurors, Taoist; Sandwich Islands; Sing-pho.

Consciousness, total suppression of normal consciousness common in possession. See index of cases. Partial suppression of consciousness. Double consciousness. Griesinger on interior contradiction of consciousness; Myers on duplicated individuality; subliminal consciousness; the underlying psychical unity contrasted with personality; Dr. James on empirical and habitual consciousness. See Cerebration, Duality, Knowledge, Memory, Personality, Possession, Self, Soul, Thought, Trance.

Contemporary Review.

Contortions of demoniacs.

Contradiction, interior, Dr. Griesinger on.

Cook, Joseph.

Countenance changed in possession.

Credulity, Dr. Hammond on.

Criterion of experience; of Christ's doctrine.

Croesus tests the oracle.

Cross, sign of in exorcism.

Curiosity to witness the occult.

Crux interpretum of early Genesis.

Cyprian.
Dean, Sidney, his automatic writing.

Dead, the, communication with, apparent instances of; forbidden in Bible. See Necromancy.

Dr. Dee.

Delphic oracle.

Demi-gods.

Demons, who they are; Bible view of their relation to Satan; silence of Bible regarding demons; shows their reality; Greek view, Hesiod; Plato; Josephus's view; Gall's view, a pre-Adamic race; Chinese view. Their own claims, pretensions and acknowledgments: to be spirits, genii; to be spirits of the dead; James; Myers; to be gods, demanding worship; to be God; to be demons, or evil spirits. Their relation to each other; claim authority over other spirits; insubordination to their chief; of various kinds; have their individual characters. Their powers, intellectual and physical; clairvoyance; prediction; improvise verse; speak foreign and unknown languages; confer superhuman strength; make themselves audible by voice and noise; singing; speak in their own several voices; make themselves visible by apparitions; James on; Haweis on (See Apparitions); make their invisible presence felt and recognized; personate different indviduals; recognize Christ; warn men of their danger; make fires; injure by bodily violence; injure property; hate and injure exorcists; frighten brutes; possess brutes; produce dreams; produce dumbness; change the countenance; produce contortions (See also Index of Cases); tyrannize over men; inflict disease; cure disease; influence and control human beings by temptation, obsession, and possession; in possession drive men to drunkenness; gambling; suicide; violence; self-mutilation; incendiarism; obscenity; nymphomania; blasphemy; self-starvation. Demons have their liberty and limits; their raving; grief; demons "dull and trivial"; confess to being under involuntary restraint; dread Christ, and cannot remain in the presence of active Christian faith, hence infrequency of possession where Christianity prevails. See Index of Cases; yield to adjuration in the name of Christ. Their motives; desire a body; an instance of apparent good motive. Their relation to idolatry; their testimony to Christ. Demon-worship, in India; Paul, Festus, Favonius, and Xenophon on; Demon of Socrates not so called by him; use of word "demon" by Aurelius; demons in case of Ahab; their habitat in the air.

Demoniac, as distinguished in Bible from witch and wizard; from the developed medium; becomes a medium; cringing nature of; appearance of; contortions of.

Demonology of the Greeks; R. W. Emerson on; literature of; Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Demonomania and Demonomelancholia, Dr. Griesinger on.

Departments of Study concerned with the occult.

Devil (see Satan), distinguished from demons in New Testament.

Devil Dancers.

Devil Worshipers.

Disease, inflicted by demons; cured by demons; some diseases beyond control of demons; distinguished from possession; healed in answer to prayer.

Disgrace attending possession in view of Chinese.

Divination (see Oracle, Possession, Planchette) by tables.

Dogmatism, of Science, R. Heber Newton on; of Dr. Hammond.

Dongha at Ghonspore.

Dorman, Rushton M.

Dragon Procession in China commemorates exorcism.

Dreams, symptoms of possession in; commanded in; not commonly but sometimes occult.

Duality of Mind Theory.
Edmunds, Judge, his daughters polyglottic powers; his mediumistic writings.

Eglington, the medium.

Ellinwood, Dr. F. F. Introduction; on original monotheism.

Elymas the sorcerer.

Enchantment.

En-Chiu.

Energy, of the Holy Spirit; of the evil spirit.

English Wesleyan Mission.

English Church Missionary Society.

Encyclopaedia Britannica on demonology.

Epilepsy confused with possession.

Evidence, difficulty of collecting from Chinese; summarized in eleven propositions; corroborative; experimental; abundance of; how to deal with unwelcome evidence.

Evidential value to Bible of facts collected.

Evolution, used to explain facts.

Experience, a test of truth; but inadequate as criterion.

Experiment, conditions of successful.

Experimental research in the occult; its danger.

Expert testimony and common sense; of Christ.

Explanations of the phenomena: by imposture; by odic force; by evolution; by pathology; by psychology; by demonology.

Exorcism through faith in Christ exemplified in most of the cases described. See Index of Cases; why exorcism by Christ was wonderful to the Jews; why exorcism in his name wonderful to us; by the Holy Spirit; by faith expressed in reading the Scriptures (after reading Chinese classics had failed); its mode by Christ; by adjuration; by a sign of the cross; evidential value to Christianity of exorcism by Christian faith; certainty of this remedy; by excommunicated persons; Chinese methods: by chanting the classics; flagellation; cinnabar; by acupuncture; Hindu exorcism; Burman; Japanese; singing in exorcism.

Exorcists, hated by demons; in early church a special class.

Facts, established by evidence collected in China, summarized in eleven propositions; of this volume drawn from life more than from literature; still occurring and within proof; belong to a great class; of the occult; of prodigies; designation of class; their vitality and persistence; general remarks on.

Fairfield, Francis Gerry; his theory.

Faith, Christian, in exorcism (which see); the sole means of adequate defense against evil spirits; and of communion with Holy Spirit.

Faith Healing among Chinese Christians; with Blumhardt.

Familiar Spirits, reality of; intercourse with, forbidden in Bible.

Fan-hu-li, or fox possession.

Fathers (see Christian Fathers).

Fat-shan, village.

Faust.

Favonius on demon-worship.

Feats, the three capital feats of high magic in India.

Festus on Jewish religion.

Fiction, studies of occult, in.

Field, Miss A. M., her testimony.

Figian Priests.

Fires started by spirits.

Fisher, Geo. P., on Mahomet.

Flagellation in exorcism.

Folk-lore and the occult.

Foochow, Fuchow.

Foster, Chas. H., the medium.

Fox possession in China; in Japan.

France, cases of possession frequent in; devil worshippers in.

Fraud in spiritualism.

Fu Kien, province, cases in.

Fuchow (see Foochow).

Fu-San city.
Gamanouchi, Dr., his testimony.

Gambling mania induced by spirits.

Gall, Rev. Jas., view of Satanic race.

Genii identified with the spirits and demons.

Ghonspore, exorcism at.

Ghosts (see Apparitions).

Giles, H. A., translator of Liao-Chai.

Gilmour, Rev. Jas.

Gods of the heathen identified with demons by St. Paul.

Gravity, annihilation of in levitation.

Greek spiritism; demonology.

Grief, possession beginning in a fit of.

Griesinger, Dr., his rank in medicine; his facts; his theory.

Guinea, oracles of.

Guyon, Madame.
Hai-ping, district.

Hale, Sir Matthew, sense of responsibility in trial for witchcraft; charge to jury.

Hall of Revelations.

Hallucinations in possession.

Hammond, Dr. Wm. A., on induction; healthy scepticism; pathological theory of possession; his materialistic ground; definition of mind; misstatement of facts.

Hansen, hypnotizer.

Hastings, H. L..

Haunted Houses.

Haweis, Rev. H. R., on the persistence of the occult.

Hecker, Dr., on imposture.

Henderson, Rev. Jas., on demons.

Hesiod's view of demons.

Hiang-to, incense burner or medium.

Hindu case; magic.

Hing-Kia, village.

Hin-Kong village.

Hodgson, Dr. Richard.

Ho Kia-Chwang, village.

Holmes, O. W.

Holy Spirit, antagonizes the evil spirit; exorcism by; energy of; desires possession of man; communion with, through faith.

Home, D. D., the medium.

Hume, David.

Hu-sien-ye, one of the fox fraternity.

Hwei, a market.

Hypnosis.

Hypnotism, in case of Ansel Bourne; Dr. James on; as related to the medium trance; Moll on; relation to possession; distinguished from possession; effect of on memory; like artificial somnambulism; auto-hypnotism.

Idolatry and demon worship; St. Paul on; Christian fathers.

Illuminati, the.

Illusions.

Imposture, explanation by.

Incense tables.

Incident, books of.

India, possession in; high magic in.

Indians, American, witchcraft among.

Individuality, duplicated; contrasted with personality by James.

Induction, the author's; Dr. Hammond on; by Chinese and Jews; how avoided through prejudice.

Inland Mission, testimony.

Innocent, Rev. J.

Insanity confused with possession.

Interment, voluntary, a magical feat.

Invocation of spirits.

Inspiration and Telepathy.

Jamblicus.

James, Dr. Wm., on the two halves of brain; on the soul; alternating personality; possession and mediumship; limits of science in these matters; automatic writing; the foreign 'control'; the dead; case of Lurancy Vennum; the medium trance and readjustment of science.

Japan, possession in; case of boy; girl.

Jewett, Rev. Edward H., on the last petition of the Lord's prayer.

Job, Satan in book of.

Josephus.

Journalism of the occult.

Justin Martyr.

Kabbala.

Kabbalists.

Kamtchatka, oracles.

Kellar, Prof. Harry, on high caste Indian magic.

Kerner, Dr. A. J.

Kiang-lan, Chinese planchette.

Kitsuni-tsuki, fox possession in Japan.

Knowledge, superhuman shown in possession (see possession).

Krishaber.

Kwan-yiu, goddess of mercy.

Kwan-tung, province.

Kwei or Mo-Kwei, demon.

Ky-uin, legion.
Lactantius.

Lai-shan-shin-mu, a goddess.

Langley, Prof. S. P.

Language, forgotten language, spoken in hypnosis; polyglottic powers of spirits (see Possession).

Laughlin, Rev.

Law, every kind has its own; all pervading law a Biblical conception; sin the only breach of law recognized in the Bible, and has a law of its own; miracles not a breach of law; pervades mental as well as material facts.

Legion.

Leibnitz, his maxim.

Leng-ko, a place.

Levitation; Taoist.

Leyenberger, Rev. J. A.

Li, a [Chinese] mile [= one-third English mile].

Liao-Chai, the Chinese book of folklore.

Ling-Ku, district.

Literature of the occult.

London Missionary Society.

Longfellow.

Lotze on the Self.

Lunacy (see Insanity).

Lucian, on polyglottic demons.

Luciferians, sect of.

Lu-tsu, a favorite spirit.

Magic, Chinese; averred of Blumhardt; Athanasius on; of Egypt; defined; vagueness of term; Hindu; high magic in India; magic in Italy; (see Levitation, Physical Phenomena, Voluntary Interment, Rappings, Sorcery, Tables).

Mahomet [Muhammad], source of his inspiration.

Manchuria.

Mandarin dialect.

Marsh, Leonard.

Martin, W. A. P. on primitive monotheism.

Marvelous, elimination of from nature.

Mason, Dr., quoted by Tylor.

Materialism vs. Animism, Tylor; of Dr. Hammond; of modern psychology; Dr. James on difficulties of materialistic explanation.

Mather, Cotton.

Maurice, F. D., on reality of Satanic agency.

Mc Cartee, Dr. D. B.

Mc Rae, Rev. Thad.

Medical theory superseding earlier view.

Mediums, Chinese; Fairfield on; role of mediums assumed; development of; how regarded by Chinese; how related to possession; distinguished from demoniacs; identified with pagan pythoness and oracles; with witch, soothsayer, necromancer; Taoist mediums; mediums in India; Fairfield's division of mediums into those of cephalic and vital temperaments; moral accompaniments of their art; immense literature of mediumistic wonders; mediumistic writers.

Memory, hereditary transmission of; quickened by hypnosis; Ribot on.

Merlin.

Mesmerism (see Hypnotism).

Methodist testimony.

Mi-mi religion.

Missionaries, Protestant, instructions to natives; their views of possession classified; value of their testimony; seldom meet cases, and why; Roman Catholic missionary's view.

Miracles, not abnormal; Augustine on; term distinguished from supernatural.

Mitchell, Dr. S. W.

Mo-Kwei, demon.

Moll, Albert, on autohypnotism.

Mongolia.

Monotheism, the primitive faith.

Moral conditions of spiritual manifestations; moral character of demoniac; moral factor in pursuit of truth.

Moule, A. E., on Chinese spiritism.

Muir, Sir. Wm., on Mahomet.

Myers, Fred'k W. H., on multiplex personality; automatic writing; alternating personality; subliminal consciousness; underlying psychical unity, or individuality; personality applied to the more transient characters or chains of memory, the unmanifested self; the agency of the dead; the difficulties to be solved.

Myths, occult phenomena so regarded; John Fiske's definition of; originating in occult phenomena.

Mythology, relation of to the occult; to demonology; Max Müller's view of.

Mysteries, heathen in western lands.

Nature, different conceptions of; a proper view of and definition; St. Paul's inventory of; distinction between nature and supernatural; known and unknown.

Natural History, Emerson on its use; telepathy a fact of; possession a fact of; Tylor on human life a part of.

Necromancy; communication with the dead.

Nervo-dynamic and nervo-psychic phenomena in mediums.

Nevins, on Salem witchcraft.

Newton, R. H., on dogmatism of science.

Nicheren sect, exorcism by.

Nichols, Dr. T. L., on relation of Spiritualism to Christianity.

Nineteenth Century, magazine, quoted; culminations of history in.

Ningpo, author's home.

Nostradamus.

Noyes, Rev. H. V.

Nymphomania in possession.
Oberlin, experience of spirit manifestations.

Obh, various meanings of this Hebrew term discussed by Pember

Obi practice.

Obsession and possession, four stages.

Occult, the term; phenomena defined; cause of; laws of peculiar, yet a part of natural order, and not abnormal; phenomena a source of superstitions and myths; abundance of; how regarded by many; belong to class of prodigies; pervade history; experimental research in; danger of this; a fad; duty of understanding it; curiosity to witness it; in Bible lands; in heathen lands; rising flood of in Europe and America; Journalism of occult; Haweis on persistence of the phenomena.

Odic force.

Oracles, Greek, Delphic; evidence of superhuman knowledge in; tested by Croesus; and by Trajan; priestess same as witch and medium. Tertullian on; Cyprian on; Dr. Tylor on; Sibylline; Kamtchatka; Tahiti; Guinea.

Oudh.
Pacific Islands, Wizard.

Paganism identified with demon-worship.

Pagoda Shadows.

Pantheism and Polytheism, their historical order.

Patagonian Wizard.

Pathology, literature of.

Pathological explanation of possession, Tylor; Hammond; Fairfield; Griesinger; Baelz; Gamanouchi.

Paul, St., his temptation; law of the members and mind; on connection of idolatry with demon-worship; on Greek worship; his inventory of nature.

Pember; on difference of demoniac and medium.

Personality, the new personality in possession; Multiplex personality (may be more than two selves). Diseased personality; alternate; a mask; a concensus; implications of, according to Dr. James; contrasted with individuality; assertion and recognition of new personality (see Consciousness, Possession, Self, Soul).

Pe-ta.

Peter, St., his temptation.

Phantom (see Apparition).

Pharisees, creed of.

Phenomena, occult, how distinguished.

Phelps, Dr. Austin; on modern demonism; basis of truth in Spiritualism; adaptation to its ends; value of his testimony, see Bibliog. Index.

Phelps, Rev. Eliakim.

Philippi, damsel of (Acts xvi. 16).

Physical phenomena of demonism (see possession).

Ping-tu.

Planes of natural being, various.

Planchette, Chinese.

Plato on polyglottic powers of demoniacs; conception of demons.

Pliny, testimony to intercourse with spirits.

Plumb, W. J., letter.

Plummer, Dr., on James iv. 7.

Polyglottism of demoniacs (see Language).

Polytheism and pantheism historical order; begins in ghost worship.

Positivist testimony to objective reality of phantoms.

Possession, twenty-four points of exact resemblance between Chinese cases and those of New Testament; New Testament word for possession; fourteen points of resemblance between phenomena of possession and of Spiritualism; phenomena of possession, Tylor, on their persistence; Chinese cases occur more often in rural districts; reluctance of natives to give testimony, and why; possession in Africa; why infrequent in Christian lands; bodily symptoms of approaching possession (see also Index of Cases); plural possession or multiplex personality, one body and many spirits; Fairfield's division of phenomena into two series, psychic and dynamic; James on oblivion of proper self in possession; voluntary and involuntary possession; possession distinguished from disease lunacy, epilepsy, etc.; relation of possession to hypnosis; distinguished from temptation; temptation, obsession, and possession; the fourth form of demon influence; physical phenomena of possession (Table-tipping, rapping, noises, disturbances, injuries, speech, writing, apparition of phantoms, movements, singing, levitation, etc.); Lyman Abbot on possession. Differentiating marks of possession: (1) The new personality; (2) Intellectual marks; (3) Moral marks. The possession theory, its origin; Tylor on its universality and persistence; its adequacy; its sanctions; implications of possession; possession by the Holy Spirit.

Prayer, last petition of the Lord's prayer; prayer in exorcism (See Index of Cases); prayer and telepathy.

Pre-Adamic race of geology identified with Satanic race by Gall.

Prepossessions of judgment in all men; how to deal with.

Presbyterian testimony.

Propositions, eleven, summarizing facts which are collected and presented in first ten chapters.

Proving the spirits.

Psychology, modern, its materialistic trend; explanation of possession by; literature of; explanation by James; Myers; Ribot; Moll; conclusions of psychological theories summarized by author; psychological explanations only tentative; limits of empirical psychology, James.

Psychic phenomena, that accompany the occult, but not to be necessarily identified with it.

Psychical Congress in Chicago.

P'u Sung-ling, author of Liao-Chai.

Pythian spirit.

Python.
Questions unanswered except by possession theory; the first two questions in the discussion; questions for those who accept the spirit theory.

Ramsey, Wm., D. D., his testimony (See Bibliog. Index).

Rappings in connection with possession.

Residuum, the unexplained residuum of phenomena, Phelps on; Haweis, on.

Resistance to possession; by Christian faith.

Reynolds, Mary, her alternating personality.

Ribot, Theodule; personality a development of organism; a consensus; the problem to be solved physically.

Richard, Rev. Timothy, his testimony.

Robertson, Dr. C. L., translator of Griesinger.

Roman Catholic testimony.

Rudland, W. D., his testimony.

Rutherford, Dr. Jas., translator of Griesinger.
Sacrifice to demons.

Sadducees, their creed.

Salem, witchcraft; literature of.

Sampson, Rev. Dr. G. W., explains by odic force.

Sandwich Islands, conjurors;

Sargent, Epes.

Satan and the demons; popular view and Bible view; limits of his knowledge and authority; modern derision of; F. D. Maurice on; his main object with men; Satan in Job; in New Testament; in Salem; apparition of; Satan-worshipers.

Sa-Wo, village.

Scepticism, Hammond on healthy scepticism; ground of as to spirit agency.

Science, baffled; dogmatism of; men of, who disregard induction; who accept the spirit theory; scientific tests of spiritism, and moral tests; what constitutes a scientific theory, A. R. Wallace on.

Scott, Rev. C. P.

Scott, Michael.

Scott, Sir Walter.

Scott, Rev. Walter, on existence of evil spirits.

Scripture teaching (see Bible).

Secondary Self (see Self).

Secondary Symptoms (see Possession).

Self, alternate, three types; secondary, Myers; manifested and un-manifested; Lotze on; second soul, Tylor; self-severance, Myers; Griesinger on divided self (see Consciousness, Personality, Soul).

Sendai, a case in.

Seybert Commission.

Shantung province, author's removal to; famine relief in.

Shen-si province.

Shien, term for genii, and used by spirits of themselves.

Shie-kwei, evil spirit.

Shin, term for gods who are identified with spirits.

Shin-tsai, town.

Shin-tsuen, village.

Sibyl, Cumaean, Virgil's description.

Sibylline oracles, or priestess identified with writing medium.

Sie, a general term for all forms of demon manifestation.

Simon Magus, a wizard.

Simulation presupposes reality.

Sin, the only anomaly recognized in the Bible, yet has a law of its own.

Singing, by spirits; in exorcism.

Singpho conjurors.

Sleep, first symptoms of possession in; ordinary and occult.

Socrates, the demon of, not so called by himself.

Society for Psychical Research.

Sofola, sorcerer.

Somnambulism; Hammond on; artificial somnambulism like mesmerism and hypnosis; ordinary somnambulism.

Soothsaying (see Divination).

Sorcery (see Magic).

Soul, James on; Tylor on its place in modern philosophy; on second soul.

Spencer, Herbert, on ghost worship; his test of reality.

Spirit, Chinese definition of (Soul of the departed, the best of whom become gods); its power of voluntary evacuation of the body among Chinese; apparent cause of occult phenomena; "unclean spirits," who are they?; "spirits of the just," do they manifest themselves?; "lying spirits," New Testament prediction; spirit agency, no new theme; spirit theory, antecedent grounds of objection to.

Spiritualism and spiritism, terms distinguished; ancient Spiritualism, literature of; modern Spiritualism, literature of; a hobby; number of Spiritualists; fundamental assumption of; author's premise; investigating societies; Sybert commission; conditions of experiment, right and wrong; success of investigation depends on moral rather than material conditions; Dr. Phelps on residuum of facts; universality of these facts; if spirits, what kind?; Joseph Cook on the two points in debate; application of moral tests; fourteen points of resemblance between phenomena of spiritism and of possession; Bible account of these phenomena; Chinese account of; Bible test of; tone of spiritistic literature; hostility to Christianity; lying spirits acknowledged by Spiritualists; virtual atheism of; subtlety of; as a religion; its claims; heathen abhorrence and western cultivation of; has done nothing to better knowledge or character; seeking unto spirits in China; Spiritualism among Greeks and Romans; modern phases of; basis of truth in; fraud in; relation to polytheism.

Stanley, Dean, on Mahomet; on Socrates.

St. Martin, M. D., testimony.

Stuart, Rev. W. R., testimony; Mrs. Stuart.

Stratford phenomena.

Suicide, induced by spirits.

Summary of facts of the first ten chapters presented in eleven propositions; A. R. Wallace's summary of facts to date in psychical research.

Supernatural, vague use of term; proper use; not to be confused with miracle; nor with occult.

Superstition defined.

Superstitions, connected with magic; originating in occult phenomena.

Swatow.

Symptoms of possession (see Possession).
Tables, divination by.

Tahiti, oracular eloquence.

Tai-Chow, district.

Tai-San, a god.

Taoism mixed with demonism.

Taoist priests; conjurors.

Ta-wang-kia, village.

Taylor, Dr.

Telepathy, Myers on; relation to possession; a fact in natural history of man, with large implications; bearings on theology; Gurney's book on.

Temptation, differs from possession; how reconciled with divine goodness; first form of demon influence; of the Saviour; of Job; of Peter; of Paul; how resisted; relation to telepathy; to possession.

Teng-chow-fu.

Terms employed for magic and witchcraft, their confusion; the term occult.

Tertullian.

Test conditions of spiritistic phenomena.

Test, or criterion, of truth in these matters; experience; Bible; Christ.

Testimony of Bible; reason for accepting it; of Christian Fathers (see Christian Fathers); of Protestant missionaries; of Roman Catholic missionaries; of native Christians, ten features of; of antiquity, general concurrence of; of the bewitched, its fourfold character; from India; of demons to Christianity; to their own character; of Mongols; of experts and common sense; of experience; of Christ as an expert; of medical men; of the five South Germans; good testimony not invalidated by lies; a priori objections to testimony.

Theologians, misconception of miracles by.

Thought, identified by Dr. James with the individual.

Tien-tsin.

Tissot, Prof., on polyglottism of demoniacs.

Titans.

Ti-ts, a pupil

Tokyo.

Trajan, tests the oracle.

Trance; and hypnotism; Dr. James on the medium trance (see Clairvoyance).

Travel, occult in the literature of.

Trying the spirits.

Tu-Ching, district.

Tung-en-tai, village.

Tung-Yoh, temple.

Tu-Shien, medium or wizard.

Twin Mountain Stream.

Tylor, Edward B.; his facts; his conclusions.

Tyranny of demon.

Uji-Jui, a Japanese tale.

Unity, underlying psychical, contrasted with personality.

Vennum, Lurancy, a case of possession.

Virgil.

Voice, changed in possession (See Demon).

Voluntary interment, the feat of Indian magic.

Voodoo practice, a form of spiritism.
Wa-ka-ya-maken, district in Japan.

Wang mu-hiang-chi, a god.

Watseka Wonder.

Weekly Journal.

Weeping of demoniacs.

Wei-Hein.

Wesley family, phenomena in.

Wesleyan Mission testimony.

Whateley, Richard.

Whirling illusion in India (high magic).

White, A. D., Dr., on cases of possession in France; on the Bible doctrine.

Wigan, Dr., on duality of mind.

Williams, S. Wells.

Williamson, of Inland Mission.

Wills, Rev. Wm. A.

Wilson, Rev. J. L.

Winslow, Dr. Forbes B., favors possession theory.

Witnesses (see Testimony), character of witnesses to facts in this volume.

Witchcraft, or "The Wizard's Art" named four times in Old Testament and once in New; not a mere pretense; but "a natural and voluntary intercourse with evil spirits,"; wizard and demoniac differently regarded in the Bible; Mosaic laws against; modern witchcraft excitement begins about time of Reformation; trials for witchcraft; defining terms; common conception of; witch defined by Connecticut code; witchcraft among American Indians and in Africa; use of word in Old and New Testaments; witches the instruments of demons; Salem witchcraft; literature of Salem witchcraft; how conviction was secured; broader definition of; a case of demoniacs rather than of witches; misconception of; defined by C. Elizabeth; wizard of Pacific Islands; Patagonian; literature of witchcraft; abundant modern parallels to the old phenomena.

Witchcraft in Italy.

Writing, automatic, in China.

Wu-kia Miao-ts, village.

Wu-po, female medium or witch.

Wu-ting-fu.
Xenophon on demon-worship.
Yang fu-miao, a place.

Yang kia-Io, village.

Yang kia-tswen, village.

Yu-hwang, a divinity.

Zeitgeist.

Zollner, a Biblical demonologist.

Zündel, biographer of Blumhardt, see Bibliog. Index.