The Erdspiegel The Erdspiegel or “earth mirror,” created by burying magically inscribed glass and paper on Christmas.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 8, 2018
in Christmas , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Christmas folklore , Erdspiegel , folk magic , John Keagy , magic mirror , Pennsylvania folk magic , pow wow , prophetic glass , prophetic mirror , scrying , The Erdspiegel
An account of an elaborate magic mirror apparatus by the Master of the Dime Novel–but was it just a figment of his fertile imagination?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 15, 2015
in Crime , News , Occultism/Magic , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged hoaxes , magic mirror , Ned Buntline , New York underworld , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud
The Mysterious Mirror of Maine On 7 June 1903, Adelia A. Warren, Mrs. Robert Warren, of Bowdoinham, Maine, died. Just six months later, it was reported that Mrs. Warren, a Spiritualist, had returned to try to communicate with the family through a mysterious magical mirror.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 13, 2015
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Adelia Warren , Bowdoinham Maine , faces appear in a mirror , ghost in the mirror , magic mirror , Maine paranormal , psychomanteum , Randall S. Warren , Raymond Moody , Robert T. Warren , scrying , Spiritualism , The Mysterious Mirror of Maine
