The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
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Page 17
... committee of investigation would be appointed . When the day came , four hundred people crowded into the hall . The Rochester Democrat was so sure that the fraud would be exposed and the rappings heard of no more that they had an ...
... committee of investigation would be appointed . When the day came , four hundred people crowded into the hall . The Rochester Democrat was so sure that the fraud would be exposed and the rappings heard of no more that they had an ...
Page 175
... committee set up to look into the subject by the Scientific American . The magazine , capitalizing on the publicity surrounding Conan Doyle's lecture tours , was offering $ 2,500 to anyone who could produce a psychic photograph ( i.e. ...
... committee set up to look into the subject by the Scientific American . The magazine , capitalizing on the publicity surrounding Conan Doyle's lecture tours , was offering $ 2,500 to anyone who could produce a psychic photograph ( i.e. ...
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... committee consisting of ' honour- able gentlemen ' should have permitted such an attack on the reputa- tion of a lady , and allowed a man ' with entirely different standards to make this outrageous attack'.22 Conan Doyle's objections to ...
... committee consisting of ' honour- able gentlemen ' should have permitted such an attack on the reputa- tion of a lady , and allowed a man ' with entirely different standards to make this outrageous attack'.22 Conan Doyle's objections to ...
Contents
Mr Sludge and Other Mediums | 42 |
Scientists and Spirits | 77 |
The GhostGrabbers | 98 |
Copyright | |
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Adare Alfred Russel Wallace appeared asked began believe Bien Bisson cabinet certainly committee Conan Doyle confession conjurer convinced course Crandon Crookes's curtains D.D. Home Davenport Brothers Dr Kane ectoplasm effect Eusapia experiments extraordinary face fact feet Florence Cook Fox sisters fraud ghost girls Guppy hand happened Harry Price Harry Price Collection heard Hereward Carrington Hodgson Home's Houdini Hydesville Ibid interest investigation James Kate Fox Katie King lady later Leah letters light living Lodge London look Madame Blavatsky Maggie magician manifestations Margery Marthe Maskelyne materializations medium mediumistic mediumship Miss Cook Myers never Noël once perhaps person phantom phenomena photographs Piper possible produced psychical research question raps Richard Hodgson Richet Rochester Schrenck Schrenck-Notzing scientific scientists seance seemed seen Sidgwick sitting Society spirit spiritualist Stead things thought tion told took trance trick wanted wife William Crookes wrote York
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