Note 17.6 — Chapter XV · THE COUVADE AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE STRENGTH OF THE BLOOD-TIE—CONCLUSION OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE THEORY OF THE LIFE-TOKEN.

v. Am Urquell, 163; H. Carrington Bolton, in vi. Journ. Am. F.L., 25. Mr. Andrew Lang, in Cock Lane and Common Sense (London, 1894), 212, et sqq., has examined the practice of crystal-gazing. He brings his wide knowledge of savage and other superstitious purposes to bear upon the evidence, and comes to the conclusion that “we can scarcely push scepticism so far as to deny that the facts exist, that hallucinations are actually provoked,” by gazing into a ball of crystal or glass. Indeed, he suggests that something more than hallucination is provoked; but perhaps that is “only his fun.” He does not say it.