THE OCCULT.

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 11

THE OCCULT.

" Pleasures and Palaces," by Eleanor Colhoun. (now Princess Hrebelianovich) contains soma curious statements, concerning a Mrs. Burchell who, in March, 1903, held a seance at the instigation of Mr. W. T. Stead. Prince Lazarovich handed to her some 6ealed envelopes. Mrs. Burchell selected one, sat for a moment, pressing it in her hand ::— " This is from a person of importance —a king,", she said. Mr. Stead then asked her to describe him. She gave a very good description of King Alexander of Servia, though she couid not tell his name or country. Suddenly she lept up, her eyes tightly shut, her face white, and speaking as though she were in the midst of a real scene, she described the assassination of the King and Queen.' Mr,-Stead asked, what soldiers they were and of what race, and she answered, " I don't know. I never saw such people. Their uniforms resemble the Russians, but they are not Russians." Then she uttered exclamations of horror and 'said, " Oh, Mr. Stead, let me not go on." Mr. Stead urged her, and she proceeded .to describe the tragedy, including the murder of a child. With that exception, the description applied in detail to the murders that occurred in the following June.

The Princess goes, on, to cite the further prophecy of a Servian shepherd named Mata, who was arrested as an accessory, owing to similar prophecies. He cleared himself, and prophesied further the general course of Servian history. He said that such sorrow would come to Servia that people would go to the graveyards and say to the dead, " 0 that we were with you!" But finally the timo would come when they would say to the dead, " 0 that yon were here to be happy with us."