Was Carnacki psychic in the original stories ?
There is no direct evidence of Carnacki's psychic powers in the orginal
stories, but some statements in the story "The Hog" would
tend to suggest he may have some direct contact with the Outer or Psychic
Circle.
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"And then something seemed to be telling me not to shoot. This
sounds perhaps a bit superstitious; but I meant to kill Bains in that
moment, and what stopped me was a distinct message from the outside."
"I tell you, it sent a great thrill of hope through me, for
I knew that the forces which govern the spinning of the outer circle
were intervening. But the very fact of the intervention proved to me
afresh the enormous spiritual peril into which we had stumbled; for
that inscrutable Protective Force only intervenes between the human
soul and the Outer Monstrosities."
"The moment I received that message I stood up like a flash
and turned towards the pit, stepping over the violet circle slap into
the mouth of darkness. I had to take the risk in order to get at the
switch board which lay on the glass shelf under the table top in the
centre. "
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"In the dead stillness of that room I got a strange sense that
all eternity was tense and utterly still as if certain powers knew of
this horror I had brought into the world.... And then I had an awareness
of something coming... something from far, far away. It was as if some
hidden unknown part of my brain knew it."
..............
"Something told me that it was making a final effort against
the help that was coming. I saw the indigo circle was now some inches
from the floor, and every moment I expected to see it flash into streams
of indigo fire running down the pale slopes of the snout. I could see
the circle beginning to move upward at a perceptible speed. The monster
was triumphing."
