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There's a letter from Kipling's sister (forget to whom - it should be with the Society's collection deposited at Sussex University) in which she claims to have seen the 'Egg' and the 'colours' as described in 'They'. I once researched the story in depth for a paper (still unpublished), visiting the Society for Psychical Research to see what they said about it. Their Librarian (a most helpful man) confirmed that the Egg and the colours are a well-known psychic phenomenon, but thought it unlikely that two random strangers would see the same colours in the same circumstances, as he said everybody sees them differently. He showed me a booklet that describes Trix's career as the well-known medium 'Mrs Holland'. It seems she is famous in those circles because she (in India), and two ladies in England and the U.S., all independently received similar 'messages' from a recently deceased, leading psychic. It didn't sound very convincing to me but I am unlearned in these matters! The booklet gave a poem by Trix which she claimed had been written without her conscious knowledge while she was in a trance, sitting in a garden. The poem is about a child's grave in the garden. She said she had not known, but found out afterwards, that there really was a child's grave in the garden. I don't know quite how this connects with 'They' but it does sound suggestive. Lisa Lewis %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%