I shall compare, as I have already said, the ethnological evidence for savage usages and beliefs analogous to thought-transference, coincidental hallucinations, alternating personality, and so forth, with the best attested modern examples, experimental or spontaneous.

' It is, indeed, nor has later science produced any rational and intelligible explanation of collective hallucinations, shared by several persons at once, and perhaps not perceived by others who are present.

With the daylight I could persuade myself that it was all a subjective hallucination, a fantasy of the night, a projection of the excited imagination.

"Are you sure that there is not a mistake somewhere, or a little mental hallucination?

When Mr. Tylor wrote his book, the study of the occasional waking hallucinations of the sane and healthy was in its infancy.

A notable proportion of sane persons have had not only visions, but actual hallucinations of sight, sound, or other sense, at one or more periods of their lives.

Therefore, as Herr Parish justly remarks, we should 'maintain a very sceptical attitude to all accounts' of veridical hallucinations.

This I knew to be hallucination, pure and simple, and I went to see my friend (if he will let me call him what he is in the truest and highest sense)

The gleam of wild hope was shortlivedhis triumph over his present ill a temporary hallucination.

But when he reached Instilment, his memory became vague, and forgetting that he had already quoted the passage under Distilment, he quoted it again as 'the leperous instilment'a reading which does not exist in any text of Shakspere, and was a mere temporary hallucination of memory.

"I care not for the judgment of men, however; I feel on sure ground while standing on Bible doctrine, and I have arrived at the conclusion that a fearful hallucination, not less absurd than that which beclouded some of the most pious and otherwise intelligent minds of the days of Salem witchcraft, has for a time darkened the moral atmosphere of the North.

As Professor William James remarks, in his 'Principles of Psychology,' such solitary hallucinations of the sane and healthy, once in a life-time, are difficult to account for, and are by no means rare.

Mr. Darwin also mentions this case, a coincidental auditory hallucination.

She had been the victim of some extraordinary hallucination: "with the little brooks for variations on the theme," she added hastily.

If Mr. Clodd means, by 'snakes,' fantastic hallucinations of animals, these amounted to 25, as against 830 representing human forms of persons recognised, unrecognised, living or dead.

I was going to run no risk of being deceived by ghostly hallucination, or mesmeric influence.

And now they were threatened by colorless economists who were mollycoddelistically making clear that the "stern reality" was the giant hallucination.

The gross and carnal hallucinations of what is called "Spiritualism"the weakest-kneed of all whimsies that have come upon the parish from the days of the augurs down to our ownwould be disenchanted at once in a neighborhood familiar with Del Rio, Wierus, Bodin, Scot, Glanvil, Webster, Casaubon, and the Mathers.

Or it seemed half a laugh, and half a sob: and it passed from me in one fleeting instant. Laughs, and sobs, and idiot hallucinations, I had often heard before, feet walking, sounds behind me: and even as I had heard them, I had known that they were nothing.

Once more, the Report says (p. 246), 'It is not the case' that coincidental (and impressive) hallucinations are as easily subject to oblivion as non-coincidental, and non-impressive ones.

In my present condition, a prey to indefinable hallucinations it seems to me that these walls are thicker than ever, that they are gradually closing in upon and will crush me.

But in the last twenty years the infrequent hallucinations of the sane have been recognised by Mr. Galton, and discussed by Professor James, Mr. Gurney, Dr. Parish, and many other writers.

The father was possessed of the insane hallucination that he was the greatest poet that ever lived.

It is interesting to try to trace the causes of such non-veridical illusions, to find the points de repère of these literary hallucinations.

"Are you sure that there is not a mistake somewhere, or a little mental hallucination?