Posts tagged
‘Spiritualist medium’

Queen Victoria’s Funeral Foreseen Queen Victoria’s funeral procession, seen in a vision by a medium four months before her death.

The Medium’s Valentine: A verse for Valentine’s Day to make your medium happy.

In 1879 the Virgin Mary paid a visit to a séance in Terre Haute Indiana and graciously agreed to have a photograph taken.

Mrs Guppy the Snow Queen Mrs Guppy was not only apport queen of the seance room, on several occasions she proved herself a snow queen with seance snow-falls.

The Photograph of a Spectral Dog A Spiritualist “infidel” tells of a photograph taken of his long-dead dog.

Encore: 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.

Muddying the Waters: The Mediumship of Mrs. Blanchard It’s always entrancing to find a new wave in mediumship, as in this account of Mrs. Elizabeth Blanchard of New Ulm, Minnesota and her mystical faces found in bowls of water.

“Just Medium”: Spiritualist Humor and Satire While Spiritualism was taken very seriously, as a kind of New Revelation, by many adherents, the press seized on its eccentricities as always good for a journalistic laugh. And, frankly, some Spiritualists made it all too easy to ridicule the faith. Here are some characteristic specimens of 19th-century Spiritualist humor.