WOMAN WHO LIVED TWICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 9

WOMAN WHO LIVED TWICE.

- — ' ♦ — — AMAZING KNOWLEDGE OF A FORM—R EXISTENCE. PARIS, December 15. The death is reported this evening of Mme. Laure Raynaud, Avho created some excitement m Paris a few years ago by her extraordinary knoAvledgo of a former life. Mme. Raynaud, who was 4.5 years old, was ■ a nurse m a private • hospital m Passy. A few years ago she told the doctor that she knew she had died at the age of 19 many years before. She described the town and the .house m which she had lived. It was a foreign town, although Mme^ Raynaud had never been Out of France. The doctor thought the town might be Siena, m Italy, so he wrote to .the mayor of that place and procured a collection of photographs. In one of them he recognised a house and a church exactly like those Mme. Raynaud described. She gave many details, among others that she died m 1840,*" and that her death was due to consumption. Without telling her where she was going, the doctor took her to Siena. The first day she 'arrived she walked straight to the "house she had described,' and from there to the church. There she went to the tombstone of .a girl- who died of consumption m 1840 at the age of 19, and fell od it m a fainting fit. Mme. Raynaud refused to make any money out of her peculiar gift, and though she had a strange magnetism Avhich enabled her to effect cures of certain nervous maladies, she always refused payment. Her death was due to cancer.