In the same way, if such wonders can happen (as so much world-wide evidence declares), they _may_ have happened at Woods Farm, and Emma, "in a very nervous state," _may_ have feigned then, or rather did feign them later.
The question for the medical faculty is: Does a decided taste for wilful fire-raising often accompany exhibitions of dancing furniture and crockery, gratuitously given by patients of hysterical temperament?
This is quite a normal inquiry.

Is there a nervous malady of which the symptoms are domestic arson, and amateur leger-de- main?
The complaint, if it exists, is of very old standing and wide prevalence, including Russia, Scotland, New England, France, Iceland, Germany, China and Peru.
As a proof of the identity of symptoms in this malady, we give a Chinese case.

The Chinese, as to diabolical possession, are precisely of the same opinion as the inspired authors of the Gospels.

People are "possessed," and, like the woman having a spirit of divination in the Acts of the Apostles, make a good thing out of it.

Thus Mrs.Ku was approached by a native Christian.