Shell Mischief: A Spiritualist Issues a Warning of Danger from the Sea
Shell Mischief: A Spiritualist Issues a Warning of Danger from the Sea An English Spiritualist performs a number of psychometric experiments in “Shell Mischief” with young ladies in darkened rooms. Of these experiments he wrote: “I draw the special attention of the medical profession to the serious physical injury many delicate persons receive, especially females; from the very common, very natural, and English-like custom of placing specimens of minerals, crystals, and shells upon the sitting-room tables and elsewhere.”