studies, is often called “Dr. Specter.” The year before last, while on a tour of Miyazaki prefecture, people heard that a lecture from far and wide, making it the most successful speech in a rural area almost since the beginning of time. He was so skilled that people would say, “Having so many gathered so enthusias-tically for a speech on the path of the Morality Church, it ap-pears that our road to the heavens has not yet been destroyed!” In any case, they went to witness the spectacle that was the speech, saying, “I heard a super famous professor of monsters is coming from Tokyo! I wanna go look at the monster prof. I The descendants of those who actually attended Enryō’s lecture dur-ing the Taishō era, in what is now Murayama city, Yamagata prefec-ture, spoke of his influence as follows. or 1919], so in Taishō 5 there wouldn’t have been any of that sort of lighting. It was probably natural for them to believe in superstitious things. I’ve never seen a specter, but my parents ture their superstitions weakened. At that time there weren’t even six hundred houses in the village, but the elementary school gymnasium they used as the venue had never been so full. There must have been six or seven hundred people there, Dr. Enryō, well known as a researcher in the field of mystery would be held in the countryside and thousands of people came wonder what he looks like. What will he be wearing?” The first electric lights came on in Ōkubo in Taishō 7 or 8 [1918 would say they are very frightening. After Professor Enryō’s lec-with people coming in from the neighboring areas. 171
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