"A NOISY SPIRIT."
STRANGE CASE OF A GIRL. GREAT DAMAGE TO CROCKERY. LONDON. Oct. C. Doctors failed to explain or to prevent weird happenings connected with Gwynneth Morley, aged 19, an employee at the Kcighlcy spinning mills. ihreads constantly broke, pictures crashed from the walls "of her home, and furniture moved. The millowners finally consulted Sir Arthur Con an 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 £6O 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, a German word signifying "noisy spirit," in spiritualism is the name given' t<> the supposed agent of inexplicable occurrences in a house, such as rattling of crockery, moving of furniture, etc.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19148, 14 October 1925, Page 12
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