Crystal-Seers in Lancashire Lancashire folk gazed into glass eggs and crystals to spy on their friends and scry the future.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 28, 2017
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged clairvoyance , crystal ball , crystal gazing , crystal-seeing , Crystal-seeing in Lancashire , Crystal-Seers in Lancashire , glass eggs , Lancashire , Lancashire witches , psychic powers , scrying , Spiritualism
A Clairvoyant Chooses the Wet-Nurse An 1850s gentleman uses the Spirits to find wet-nurses for his newborn children.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 3, 2015
in medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged A Clairvoyant Chooses the Wet-Nurse , breast-feeding , clairvoyance , pap , phrenology , Victorian spiritualism , Victorian wet nurses , wet nurses
The Battle of Gettysburg Foretold by a Clairvoyant and a Quakeress June 30, 1863, a clairvoyant medium in Brooklyn told a reporter for a New York newspaper that the Battle of Gettysburg would begin the next day. Her other statements about the Battle proved correct. All were written out, but the reporter’s newspaper refused to publish the prophecies. And in 1832 a Quaker clairvoyant saw bloodshed in the hills of Gettysburg.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 2, 2013
in Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Battle of Gettysburg , clairvoyance , Hicksites , Priscilla Hunt , Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader , prophecy , Quakers , Spiritualism , Spiritualist medium , The Battle of Gettysburg Foretold by a Clairvoyant and a Quakeress