A DANCER'S SPIRIT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 7

A DANCER'S SPIRIT

(Own Correspondent-

Woman Claims To Be Reincarnate^ KNOWN AS "ROSEMARY"

-By Air Mail.)

LONDON, June 20 A beautiful young woman who claimB to be the reincarnated spirit of a daacer in the household of a 3300-year-old Egyptian dynasty, gave an interview, but insisted that she should only be known to the public as Rosemary, She i3 the Rosemary mentioned in the bOok "Ancient Egypt Speak»f" th»? authors of which are Dr. FredericL Wood, organist of St. John's Churcli, Blackpool, and Mr A. J. Howard Hulme, of Ovingdean, vvho holds an iionorary certilicate in Egyptology at Oxford. In the book the claim ie made that Rosemary is a human instrunient of the h;gyptian princess referred to as Lada Ijona, and has befcii the tneans of lesloring much of the ancient Eastern IfU'guage. Rosemary gave the interview w the home of Dr. Wood in Hornby ioad, blackpool. She Sat in an armchair with a shopping btsket on hcr knee. • •'We are not seusatioualista." sho said "We want to be allowed to go •>ll With our work; ratker.tkan reveal n,y iJiime 1 Would give up the work." Asked if she understood signs of Ugyptology, she said: "1 dou't understand anytliing about it. "In fact, 1 ain frightfully ignorant of .it all. It is a very difficult matter which few people underscana. Ouf work is entirely research." Dr. Wood said: "It may be thought timi we are anxious to make money out of our research, but when I tell yiu tliat. after our book had been pubLshed i refused several hundred pounds oft'erod to me as an inducemeut to reveal Rosemary 's idetitity, you will undeistand that the work is all" we are iuterosted in."