Dr Eric Dingwall reviews Nandor Fodor & Hereward Carrington’s Haunted People: The Story of the Poltergeist Down the Centuries (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1951):

Later sections contain brief accounts of some famous cases such as that of the Bell Witch and the Transylvanian Jinn, to these has been added (for no reason that I can discern) an account of the so-called ‘talking mongoose’ which was investigated, according to Mr H. Carrington, “by a number of sceptical and competent witnesses,” although, as a matter of fact, no serious inquiry was possible owing to the conditions existing at the time …