Place withheld · 1848-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
Paralysis
About 1860, I married my present wife, and she did not, nor my children, know anything of Mr. S., and, consequently, took little interest in hearing about him. We seldom or never spoke about him, except perhaps when a letter came from him, and I might mention the fact. One Saturday morning, as I was reading the Standard after breakfast, my daughter, aged about 1 9, suddenly broke the silence thus : — ' Papa, have you heard from Mr. S. lately ? ' ' No, I have not,' I replied ; ' in fact, it is my turn to write. He wrote about three months ago ; but I have not written since. Why do you ask 1 ' ' Because I dreamt about him last night. I dreamt he had lost the use of his side ' (here she made a motion with her hand down her side) ; ' paralysed, don't you call it 1 ' She spoke very earnestly, I noticed ; but I merely replied, ' How strange,' and went on reading my Standard. This was on Saturday morning, you will observe. Well, the next day was Sunday, and we always made it a point to call at the post-office for our letters on Sundays. We did so on this Sunday. Among them was a C newspaper, I noticed the address was not in Mr. S.'s handwriting ; this moved my curiosity, and there being no folk about, I opened the paper, and what was my surprise to find a paragraph marked, announcing, ' That their respected neighbour, the Rev. E. H. S., had been seized with paralysis.' Certain persons were with him — doctors, &c., — and they hoped he would get better, &c., &c. Of course, I was very much surprised, and when we got home, I said, ' Sissy, do you remember anything more about your dream 1 ' (after reading the paragraph, and saying how strange it was, &C.) ' No,' she said, ' but the dream made such an impression upon my mind that I lay awake thinking about it, and wondering how I knew he was paralysed, for he didn't tell me, and I saw no one else but himself lying ill in bed.'
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This is a witness statement collected in the 1880s by Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore of the Society for Psychical Research, and published in Phantasms of the Living (1886), the first large scientific collection of such testimony. Witnesses signed their statements and were often corroborated by others, whose statements appear as their own accounts. The book is in the public domain; the text is verbatim save for scanning artifacts, and the full volumes are at archive.org.
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