SPIRIT WRITING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 7

SPIRIT WRITING.

SHADY METHODS OF MEDIUMS. Can tho spirits of tho dead return? Can they communicate witli us by means of trance-writing and trance speech ? These are pertinent questions, and constitute one of the greatest riddles of the universe. Mr. William Marriott, the well-known psychic expert, in "Pearson's Magazine" for April, turns tho limelight of publicity on to the shady methods of the mediums who profess to receive messages from the spirit world. Hero is Mr. Marriott's account of how he exploded one of the "Miracles."

"At one seance an ordinary slalo was used. It was put on tho table, and on it were placed chalks of various colours.

"I was now requested to ask a question. I did so. Then I was asked in which colour I would like tho writing to be written. I selected my colour and the other pieces were removed, and, behold, tho chosen piece scrawled an answer to my question! The answer was brief, certainly—only two words; but there it was, written under my very eyes. Surely hero was a genuine manifestation of spirit force.

"But once again things were not what they seemed. One of tho pieces of chalk, by ' some mysterious agency—probably mj fingers!—found its wnj into my pocket. And in tho quietude of my den at homo the secret was laid bare. "in analysis of tho morsel showed me that it was not all chalk. The morsels were composed of chalk, mixed—with iron filings! '"he slate was an ordinary one, but the table was not., It had a very thin lop and underneath this, but, of course, hidden by (he frame of the table, there was concealed a powerful magnet. The movement of this by the medium caused tho piece of chalk, impregnated, as it was, with iron, to follow it. And thus was the writing accomplished. "Should you ever come across writing ilone bv this method, you will easily bo ablo to detect it by the fact that the words run one into tho other.