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‘Ohio Shakers’

Child Mediums and Indian Spooks: A Shaker Girl’s Out-of-Body Experience

Child Mediums and Indian Spooks: A Shaker Girl’s Out-of-Body ExperienceThe Shakers of Union Village, Ohio were in the midst of a Spiritualist revival: child mediums fell into trance, were dictated songs by angels, and were visited by Indian spirits. As an experiment, one telepathic Shaker girl was sent on a strange errand–to fly a message from Ohio to New York state.