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VISIONS, MIRACLES, AND WONDERS. Sights, sounds, signs, miracles, maps, drawings, hieroglyphics. — Talking cow in Maine. — Her prophecy. — Proposition for another "New Church." — Predictions concerning all other churches. — Opinions three hundred years ago. — Fate of Galileo. 220 CLAIRVOYANT PHYSICIANS. Prescriptions from the dead. — Power of the imagination. — Wonderful efficacy of brown bread pills. — Singular cure of palsy, by Sir Humphrey Davy. 221 STYLE OF "SUPERNAL" COMPOSITIONS. Fishbough's new work. — Fancy-captivating publications. — Refined atheism. — Transcendental nonsense. — False communications relating to patriots, statesmen, orators, and divines. — Mountebank scenes of "psychology." — Testimony of A. J. Davis, upon the tricks of the spirit demonstrators. — Concealments, misstatements, and exaggerations. 223 MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA, WITH THEIR AGENTS OR CAUSES. Thumping noises in New Jersey. — Door opened as if struck by a mallet. — Great excitement. — Glass broken, &c. — Knockings heard in New Hackensack. — Pile of lumber shaken; tables, chairs, stand, and candlestick thrown about. — Bags of salt, tin ware, and cooking utensils thrown in a heap. — An English officer haunted by noises in the night. — Heavy marble top tables poising themselves on two legs. — Brass door knockers bewitched. — Commotion among crockery, tin ware, &c. — Firing a gun at noises in the walls. — Tearing up floor to get at the noises. — Suit brought for damages. — Bed of a sick girl raised. — Trembling of the house walls. — Singular pranks in a factory. — Jerking of the frames, and cylinder thrown at a distance. — Alarm and flight of the operatives. — A chest with three men, and a man on a tub, taken up by an invisible power. — A chair broken between two men's hands. — An image seated on a stool, clad in white. — Visions of beings like spirits. — Knockings on the walls, and noises in the air. — A lady suspended by the tips of the fingers, as a magnet suspends a piece of iron. — Electrical flashes from a lady's body. — Knockings made to be heard at a distance. — Quotation from a work by Rev. T. Hill, of Waltham. — Singular developments in New York. — Freaks of a knob of a door bell. — Fiery flashes, and fiery smacks, on kissing. — Blows in the mouth from a speaking tube. — Account of two girls that could move tables without touching them. — Effects of storms on raising tables. — Electrical circles in Cincinnati. — Case of a lady in Strasburg. — Power of giving electrical shocks to persons at a distance. — Singular effects of the northern lights on a lady. 224 EXPERIMENTS IN BIOLOGY. Chairs, tables, and persons moved. — Biological table-liftings in East Boston. — "Mediums," as visible human operators. — Resolve of the "rappers" at Poughkeepsie. — The unseen agent that moves tables, beds, &c. — Dancing plates, knives and forks, &c. 264 FACULTY OF IMITATION. Delivering speeches; imitating orators. — Case related by Walter Scott. — Case of a man haunted by the devil. — Effects of wine and heavy eating. — Voice heard by Judge Edmonds. — Lady in Providence who writes music by "spirits." — Diagram of the spheres, by a lady in a magnetic state. 268 UNSEEN LETTERS AND SIGNATURES. Imitating unseen letters, signatures, and languages. — Suspicions concerning Professor Bush. — Singular feat attributed to spirits. — No difficulty in raising chairs or tables. — Spirits shown by Egyptian boys. — Unbelief of practising "mediums." — School children forbidden to move tables, &c. 273 A DANCING LIGHT. Dancing light seen in Southboro', Massachusetts. — Ignis fatuus seen by Dr. Derham. — Corpusants seen by mariners. — Dampier's account of them. 274 SAILORS' OMENS. Sailors' omens and superstitions. — Devil's power in stirring up winds. — Losing a cat overboard, a bucket, or a mop. 276 LOVE CHARMS. Othello winning Desdemona by conjuration. — Execution of a young lady for giving a love powder. — Her dying confession. — A charm or an allay for love. 277 EFFECTS OF A BELIEF IN A GHOST. Effects of a belief in the reality of ghosts. — Case at the University at Cambridge. — A student frightened to death. 279 THE INVISIBLE LADY. The invisible lady in Boston. — The invisible girl in London. — Joice Heth, the India rubber woman. — Professor Grimes's discovery among the "rappers." — Mrs. Culver respecting the Rochester rappers. 280 SORCERERS IN THE EAST. Persons killed by the enemy's fires. — Singular custom in