The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
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... question of what you chose to notice , or not to notice . He wrote : After all was ready , the usual question was put by Mrs Fish , Will the spirits reply to this gentleman ? A few faint knockings were heard in reply , which seemed to ...
... question of what you chose to notice , or not to notice . He wrote : After all was ready , the usual question was put by Mrs Fish , Will the spirits reply to this gentleman ? A few faint knockings were heard in reply , which seemed to ...
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... question and had returned no answer even after it had been put to them three times , one of the girls explained , ' Why , I don't under- stand your question . ' It was then put more simply , and the spirits were enabled to reply.25 ...
... question and had returned no answer even after it had been put to them three times , one of the girls explained , ' Why , I don't under- stand your question . ' It was then put more simply , and the spirits were enabled to reply.25 ...
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... question , though , was whether , at the same time that Katie was promenading around the seance room , Florence remained in the cabinet . This question was raised in several letters to The Spiritualist , far the most significant of ...
... question , though , was whether , at the same time that Katie was promenading around the seance room , Florence remained in the cabinet . This question was raised in several letters to The Spiritualist , far the most significant of ...
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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