Cock Lane and common-sense
1894
Preface.--Introduction.--Savage spiritualism.--Ancient spiritualism.--Comparative psychical research.--Haunted houses.--Cock Lane and common-sense.--Apparitions, ghosts, and hallucinations.--Scrying or crystal-gazing.--The second sight.--Ghosts before the law.--A modern trial for witchcraft.--Presbyterian ghost hunters.--The logic of table turning.--The ghost theory of the origin of religion








