The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
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Page 58
... produced his phenomena , which seem mainly to have consisted in rapping and in lifting the table . He offered to be searched , but the offer was declined by Brougham and Brewster . The two pro- fessed themselves satisfied with the ...
... produced his phenomena , which seem mainly to have consisted in rapping and in lifting the table . He offered to be searched , but the offer was declined by Brougham and Brewster . The two pro- fessed themselves satisfied with the ...
Page 109
... produced . It was also strictly forbidden to peek behind the curtain while the process of producing the spirit was going on . Audiences must wait passively and accept what they were given , if indeed they were given anything at all . of ...
... produced . It was also strictly forbidden to peek behind the curtain while the process of producing the spirit was going on . Audiences must wait passively and accept what they were given , if indeed they were given anything at all . of ...
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... produced by machinery , trickery or deception . ' - This has long since been discarded . No one who has examined the manifestations , will for a moment doubt that they are produced independent of all human agency . -JOHN S. ADAMS ...
... produced by machinery , trickery or deception . ' - This has long since been discarded . No one who has examined the manifestations , will for a moment doubt that they are produced independent of all human agency . -JOHN S. ADAMS ...
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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