And, accordingly, whenever there can be shown in our percipients a diseased mental or psychical state, we must eliminate their testimony without argument.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
All scientists are in agreement with the Pathological Theory in so far as it rejects as unworthy of serious consideration all apparitions and abnormal phenomena save those observed by sane and healthy percipients under ordinary conditions.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
I have talked with both percipients so much, and know them so intimately that I am fully able to state that as percipients they fulfil all necessary pathological conditions required by psychologists in order to make their evidence acceptable.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz