"BEWITCHED."
EXPENSIVE SPIRITUALIST. HEAVY FALLS IN CHINA. LONDON, October 6. Doctors failed to explain or to prevent weird happenings connected with Gwynneth Morley, aged 19, an employee at the Keighley spinning mills.
Threads constantly broke, pictures crashed from the walls of her home, and furniture moved.
The mill-owners finally consulted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who diagnosed the trouble as a simple case of poltergeist, and recommended a change and rest with a view to improving her general health.
Miss Morley accordingly spent three months at a college of psychic science in London. During the first few days £60 worth of crockery was smashed, heavy tables were thrown about, and two bananas disappeared into the air.
Miss Morley has now returned to ■work, and is no longer haunted or bewitched.
Poltergeist (Ger.: noisy spirit), in spiritualism is the name given to the supposed agent of inexplicable occurrences in a house, such as rattling of crockery, moving of furniture, etc.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1925, Page 7
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