Unfortunately, Madame Boubou did not enclose a snapshot of her engulfment by ectoplasm with her Message From Beyond. As luck would have it, a trawl through the Hooting Yard Archives turned up this picture which enables lucky readers to see with their own eyes the amazing phenomenon of ectoplasmic hoo-ha:
According to The Minnie Harrison Page, what we see here is “ectoplasm emanating from the Medium’s mouth. Taken in complete darkness using Kodak infra-red plate. Exposure by means of powerful ‘Sashalight’ bulb through ‘Wratten’ glass filter – extremely deep ruby-red colour. The Ectoplasm is emanating from her mouth and in this form it is quite transparent, very similar in appearance and texture to chiffon.â€
Those of you who think Minnie Harrison is sitting there in her 1948 Middlesbrough sitting room with a net curtain stuffed in her mouth are sadly deluded and will not get a helping of Madame Boubou’s delicious Boiled Rhubarb Surprise.
I hear it is now fashionable to get one’s ectoplasmic emanations monogrammed.
I would think one would use some sort of basin or other ectoplasm containment apparatus rather than just let it all dribble down one’s frock.
I often wonder how people can dispute the existence of ectoplasmic phenomena after you have presented evidence this convincing. Is the world in denial?
I can’t tell if the ectoplasmic flow is being expelled or ingested…
For this reason I suspect I may be a dunderpate that has missed an obvious clue…