The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
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Page 70
... extraordinary atmosphere in which these things took place is further enhanced by the equally extraordinary matter - of- factness with which Adare recounted the happenings . Here , for ex- ample , is his account of one such nocturnal ...
... extraordinary atmosphere in which these things took place is further enhanced by the equally extraordinary matter - of- factness with which Adare recounted the happenings . Here , for ex- ample , is his account of one such nocturnal ...
Page 137
... extraordinary , even so mon- strously extraordinary that at first sight the hypothesis of immeasurable , repeated , and continual fraud seems the more probable explanation . But is such fraud possible ? I cannot think so . When I recall ...
... extraordinary , even so mon- strously extraordinary that at first sight the hypothesis of immeasurable , repeated , and continual fraud seems the more probable explanation . But is such fraud possible ? I cannot think so . When I recall ...
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... extraordinary . When it came to spiritualism , his credulity knew no bounds . As Houdini said , Sir Arthur believes implicitly in the mediums with whom he has convened and he knows positively , in his own mind , they are all genuine ...
... extraordinary . When it came to spiritualism , his credulity knew no bounds . As Houdini said , Sir Arthur believes implicitly in the mediums with whom he has convened and he knows positively , in his own mind , they are all genuine ...
Contents
Mr Sludge and Other Mediums | 42 |
Scientists and Spirits | 77 |
The GhostGrabbers | 98 |
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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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