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Somnambulistic country-girls, when it is upon them, throw plates about or pull them with long hairs in simulation of the polter-geist, or become mediums for some genuine spirit-mischief, surrendering to their desire of the marvellous.

From Reveries over Childhood and Youth by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)