The Ghost at Garpsdal.
MORE HAUNTED HOUSES A physician, as we have seen, got the better of the demon in Mrs.
Shchapoff's case, at least while the lady was under his care.

Really these disturbances appear to demand the attention of medical men.

If the whole phenomena are caused by imposture, the actors, or actresses, display a wonderful similarity of symptoms and an alarming taste for fire-raising.

Professor William James, the well-known psychologist, mentions ten cases whose resemblances "suggest a natural type," and we ask, is it a type of hysterical disease?
{229} He chooses, among others, an instance in Dr.Nevius's book on Demon Possession in China, and there is another in Peru.

He also mentions The Great Amherst Mystery, which we give, and the Rerrick case in Scotland (1696), related by Telfer, who prints, on his margins, the names of the attesting witnesses of each event, lairds, clergymen, and farmers.