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remember that the navy has not necessarily touched the fragment, which can therefore hardly be laid to be permeated with the vibrations of his personal history, appearance and home surroundings. How, then, is the information concerning him obtained?. A clairvoyant of the author’s acquaintance always requests that he be told which line, of investigation he shall follow in order to obtain the information required; he states that having established contact with, say, the person or place, he can then branch off in various directions, e.g., to the relatives, home, health, occupation, state of consciousness or evolutionary standing of any person contacted. Once, when handed a crystal earring, he began to describe our globe in a state of primeval uproar, evidently contacting the history of the formation of the crystal portion of the ornament. When informed Ị that it was the present owner of the ear-ring who formed the subject of inquiry, he was at once able to describe her accurately, her tricks of manner, habits of mind, and even name. A further aspect of psychometry worthy of study in the fact that the seer may actually reproduce in his own person the condition of people and places at a certain period of the history of the object. The same friend was once requested to investigate a piece of stone brought from a so-called Druids’ Circle near the Peak district of Derbyshire. He began with a description of the scenery of the place from the viewpoint of a person standing on the hilltop where the stone was found; he then saw a procession and a ceremony, at which a living human victim was sacrificed. This victim, he said, was a young girl, who was lying bound beside a rough altar stone. When, after some unholy ceremonial, the moment of sacrifice arrived, he became much agitated, and began to tremble violently. The description ceased, and he was obviously making a great effort at self- control. After a pause he said, with strong feeling: “There is a vile elemental connected with the whole thing, and I have contacted it. It tried to obsess me. I hate it. I hate it!” and, taking the stone, he put it on the fire, and drove it into the flames with hard blows from the poker, still displaying great agitation, until it was hidden from sight in the glowing coal. He then warned the author of the danger of keeping this sort of curio, and the experiments ceased for that night.