If trickery is not detected the poltergeist is the manifestation of an evil spirit.
Footnote 19: A poltergeist is a spirit that throws things about; its appearance is generally associated with the presence of some young person, whose tricks may be detected to the discredit of the ghostly cause.
Another point that is worthy of note is the fact that the hauntings of a poltergeist are generally attached to a certain individual in a certain spot, and thus differ from the operations of an ordinary ghost.
It seems strange that they should have gone through such a bad night exactly a week from the night the poltergeist started its operations.
The poltergeist must have been an insistent fellow, for when the unfortunate men took refuge in the other bed, they had not been long in it before it began to rise, but could not get out of the recess it was in unless it was taken to pieces.
But it is a fact that there were no more poltergeist phenomena in that house, although the Slippertons went back to it a month or two later and still have the same cook.
In short, the usual strange feats that characterise poltergeist phenomena.
The phenomena that drove them out of their house at last were of the ordinarypoltergeist type that date back to the days of John Wesley.
And, curiously enough, thepoltergeist precisely echoed my resolve.
For three days, the poltergeist continued to plague her.
In another case, investigated by the Society, the poltergeist was definitely identified with a little deformed girl, twelve years old, of decidedly abnormal characteristics.
Even more important, from the standpoint of getting at the true inwardness of physical mediumship, the discovery has been made that fraud has frequently been practised in poltergeist cases without any apparent motive.
Nobody saw the ghost, but it made its presence felt in true poltergeist style.
On this theory they sent her to her home in a neighboring village, where the poltergeist continued to annoy her.
Certainly, the hysterical young people run to earth by the poltergeist hunters of the Society for Psychical Research did not engage in their hoaxings because they expected to make money out of them.
In point of fact, the investigations of the Society for Psychical Research make it certain that in nine cases out of ten a poltergeist is a by-product of hysteria, using the term in its strictest medical sense.
And, in fact, this same absence of motive is conspicuous in nearly all the poltergeist cases exposed by the Society for Psychical Research, and by independent investigators.
This was but an instance of the Poltergeist that so exercised the minds of Körner, Mrs. Crowe, and the like, but which can all be traced back to a knavish servant.
That is the true secret of the Poltergeist manifestations in England, France, and Germany.
So with a yawn I went my way To seek the welcome downy, And slept, and dreamed till break of day Of Poltergeist and Fetch and Fay And Leprechaun and Brownie!
In Poltergeist cases, one person perhaps does the mischief; in inferior haunted house cases two would be enough.
Poltergeist disturbances are caused by a single person generally; it is not impossible that in rare cases there is a confederate.
In Poltergeist cases, as in Alice's, a slap on the back was felt; perhaps she hypnotised Miss K.
Poltergeist had spared my novel, lying next to Young: evidently he thought that already watery enough.
It seemed as if a Poltergeist had visited the spare cabin port during the night, for awaking I found my settee, and the Night Thoughts thereon, waterlogged.
Searly Vicarage, North Kelsey Moor, very kindly sent me an original manuscript dealing with poltergeist disturbances of a very peculiar nature, at the old Syderstone Parsonage near Fakenham.
A poltergeist that up to the present had confined its attentions to me, no one else in the house having either heard or seen it.
There seems to be little limit, short of grievous bodily injury--and even that limit has occasionally been overstepped--to poltergeist hooliganism.
It must be confessed that most of her phases are of the poltergeist variety, but they are astounding.
There is vastly more than the poltergeist in her, that is evident; for she has conquered every critic with her miracles.
It was as if some roguish poltergeist had suddenly developed in the room.
It takes more than a towel wrapped around the head and some mutterings about infinity to get poltergeist effects.
I was told you claimed you had to have a poltergeist in the process.
She believed I was responsible for turning her little Jennie, the little girl who'd started all this poltergeist trouble, into a Good Little Girl.
In case you rejected our applicant for the poltergeist job you have in mind, I was to hand you this.
Didn't your Poltergeist Section test this guy's aptitudes for telekinesis before you brought him from Washington all the way out here to Los Angeles?
So the Poltergeist Division discovered the Swami, and I was assigned to bring him out here to you.
