GIRL IN TRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1940, Page 6

GIRL IN TRANCE

SINGS ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SONGS. Living a quiet cultured life in Blackpool, Lancashire, is a handsome young woman who is said to be the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess who lived more than 3.000 years ago. Not only dees she speak under trance in ancient Egyptian, but she also sings the lost melodies of a bygone era. These melodies have been jotted down and listeners in Great Britain have heard them over the radio in the organ recitals of Dr Frederic H. Wood. The story is told by Dr Wood m "This Egyptian Miracle." just published in England by Rider. Dr Wood writes: "Late in 1927 Rosemary’s hand began to write unexpectedly by itself ... I realised at once that here was what is called ‘a writing medium!’ ” Dr Wood claims that Rosemary’s mediumship has given Egyptian scholars a guide to the pronunciation of a language known only in written form. Under test conditions. Rosemary, while in trance, has recorded on gramophone discs tlie speech of ancient Egypt. Records of Rosemary’s speech were made at the International Institute for Psychical Research, London, and have been translated by an Egyptian scholar. “In her normal state Rosemary does not know a word of Egyptian, and she steadfastly refuses to discuss it. even with me.” Dr Wood writes. Through Rosemary’s mediumship. Dr Wood claims, th.e forgotten music of ancient Egypt has been recaptured. Words and' music of a "Nile BoatS.’iig." “A Hymn to Osiris." "An Invocation to Baal." “Trumpet-Call to Amon.” and fragments of dance tunes have been brought back from the past, he says.