THE CASE AGAINST
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS
By
C. VINCENT PATRICK
AND
W. WHATELY SMITH
LONDON:
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Ltd.
BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74, CARTER LANE, E.C.
1921
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | Introductory (W. Whately Smith) | 5 |
| II. | Historical (C. Vincent Patrick) | 7 |
| III. | Fraud (C. Vincent Patrick) | |
| A. General Methods | 15 | |
| B. Experiments in Fraud | 21 | |
| C. Internal Evidence of Fraud | 27 | |
| IV. | Spirit Photographs Obtained by Amateurs (C. Vincent Patrick) | 31 |
| V. | The Fairy Photographs (C. Vincent Patrick) | 33 |
| VI. | The Reliability of Witnesses (W. Whately Smith) | 36 |
| VII. | The Value of Recognition (W. Whately Smith) | 39 |
| VIII. | Recent Literature (W. Whately Smith) | 42 |
| IX. | Real Test Conditions (W. Whately Smith) | 45 |
(W. Whately Smith)
SPIRIT photographs have long been a source of controversy anddiscussion, and signs are not lacking that public interest inthem is at least as keen as ever. A Society for the Study ofSupernormal Pictures has, for example, been formed recently, and it isby no means uncommon to meet people who owe much of their beliefin Spiritualism to the results they have obtained through photographi
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