{Fits}[21st January 1974]

[Redbook2:35-36][19740121:0035]{Fits}[21st January 1974]

Sunday 19740121.0035

            S came back from [HL]’s house-party this evening.  At lunch today H suffered from some form of fit.  S and two boys looked after her; she lay rigid, salivating and frothing, and occasionally struggling.  Her eyes were wide open, but unseeing.  H’s mother came in and stood by, wringing her hands and saying ‘Poor dear – poor [H]’ or something like that.  She said that this had not happened before.  The boys carried H upstairs, where S heard her sobbing.  Later H came down to the next door room where her father was, and cried again, but returned not long afterwards, physically shaking, but saying that she remembered nothing.

            But S does.  She saw H, sitting straight at the head of the  table – before the fit took her – raise her head and look to a position some 45 degrees to the right of the table line (my words), and above her.  Her hand and her gaze followed a 90 degree arc until she was looking up steeply at some 135 degrees to the right of the table line.  Then she became rigid and was thrown to the left from her chair with such force that she suffered severe bruising to the left side of her temple and face.  A girl – [D]? – said she saw that Gina did not hit the table on the way down.

            S considered – she does not remember when she first thought of it – that H had seen something affecting somebody else.  She says that H looked as though she was watching something.  She said to me: ‘Does a big black bird have any significance?’  I confess I turned cold, because I know –as I believe she does not – the meaning some ‘spiritualists’ attach to the ‘big black bird’.  S says she did not see anything – it simply occurred to her that this was what H had seen: not might have seen, but did  see.

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