Lord Carnarvon writes:
I can confirm Prince V. Duleep Singh's account. I heard the incident from him on the Sunday morning. The same evening, at about 12 P.M., he received a telegram notifying him of his father's sudden illness and death. We had no knowledge of his father's illness. He has never told me of any similar previous occurrence.
The Maharajah Duleep Singh died on Sunday, October 22, 1893.
We have several cases in which the sight of a material object appears to have facilitated the hallucination. Thus Edmund Gurney has quoted, in Phantasms of the Living, a case where a young girl saw a familiar face growing out of a pansy.[1] In another case the percipient saw the figure of her mother in a white dimity curtain at the foot of the bed. When the curtain was shaken the figure disappeared.[2] In Case 41 below, the percipient saw a face form on the panels of a wardrobe illuminated by the moon.
In the next case the vision seems to have been seen within an hour of the death. Here again the hallucination appears not to have been completely externalised.
No. 34. From Madame Broussiloff[3]
