I have, however, heard instances in which phantasms have been "laid" by the repetition of prayers, and so can only conclude that the possibility of laying a ghost depends entirely on conditions about which we know nothing.
Whereas I think it highly probable that oral communication may sometimes be held with rational Phantasms of the Dead with possible beneficial results on one or both sides, no mode of address produces other than an irritating effect on Phantasms of the Insane; there is no consistency whatever in the result of exhortation on Elementals.
Whether the spirit of an insane person is earth-bound, or not, depends entirely on the cause of the malady. If the insanity is due to long indulgence in vice, or if it is hereditary, then I think the spirit of the mad person is earth-bound; but if the disease is the result of a shock or of something not brought about by vicious indulgences, and the sufferer had been perfectly pure-minded before the affliction, then his spirit is certainly not earth-bound. The former species of insanity would be the work of Vice Elementals and Morbas, and the latter of Morbas only.
The ghosts of idiots are, in my opinion, always earth-bound, and few forms of hauntings are more horrible than those in which the manifestations are due to Imbeciles--a by no means uncommon occurrence.
A. PAGE Animals (Future for), 149-150 " (Phantasms of), 145-150
Antagonistic Elementals, 157-8, 163 " Forces, 157
Baroness Von A---- (Case of the), 67-72, 113-115
Benevolent Elementals, 153-7 " Forces, 157 (def. of), 163
Clanogrians, 23 (def. of), 33, 34, 74, 82, 159 (def. of), 162, 170
Dead (Phantasms of the), 90, 98, 99, 103, 105, 145-6
Elementals (def. of), 11 (def. of), 155 (def. of)
Impersonating Elementals, 76, 86, 94, 99, 103, 112, 161-2 (def. of), 167
Living (Phantasms of), 34, 44, 151-3, 173
Murdered (Phantasms of), 108, 111, 112, 116, 155
Phantasms (Classification of), 144 " (def. of), 143
Sydersterne Parsonage (Haunting of), 123-132
Vagrarians, 11-23, 25-31, 66, 82, 131, 159, 161, 163
Vice Elementals, 31, 56, 62, 63, 64, 65, 82, 131, 138, 157, 167, 170, 179
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