Chapters 3 to 5 - Communication with Spirits during the Post-Apostolic Period and in Modern Times

- 41 - In this connection I experienced one especially noteworthy case. In one cast the hand is doubled into a fist, the tip of the thumb projecting between the index and the middle fingers. In this particular experiment the phantom had been asked to do something complicated, peculiar and hard to imitate, but was left at liberty to do whatever it liked. It seemed to reflect for a while as though trying to think of something especially appropriate. Then it dipped its outstretched hand into the paraffin, and only then made a fist. Before I filled this mould with plaster, I could see on the inside several irregularly shaped ribs of paraffin running through the hollow in the interior of the glove and supporting certain points. They corresponded to the curved recesses between the fingers. • I saw only a few apports [objects produced at spiritist séances], and they were all small. I was told, however, that fairly heavy objects had been brought from distant rooms into that in which the séances are held. The most remarkable phenomenon of this sort was the disappearance of Kluski himself from the séance room, which had been locked and sealed. To their great amazement, the séance participants found him in a fairly remote room of the apartment, sleeping quietly.” Image 3: Plaster cast of a materialised male hand of an invisible phantom with bend finger and an extended index finger. The size of the hand corresponded with that of a child of seven or eight years of age. Received by Dr. G. Geley with the help of the medium Franek Kluski in September 1921/ From: G. Geley: "L' Ectoplasmie et la Clairvoyance", Librairie Félix Alcan, Paris 1924 Image 4: Plaster cast oft wo materialised, slightly folded hands of an invisible phantom. Received in September 1921 in Warsaw with the help of the medium Franek Kluski. From: G. Geley: "L' Ectoplasmie et la Clairvoyance", Librairie Félix Alcan, Paris 1924

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