Playing a Spirit A girl who played a spirit for a famous Spiritualist medium tells All.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 30, 2018
in Crime , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives
and tagged Amanda M. Cowan , mediums , Playing a Spirit , seance room fraud , Spiritualism , Spiritualist confederate , Spiritualist confessions , spiritualist exposure , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist mediums , The Girl Who Played a Spirit , Victorian spiritualism
The Voluntary Lunatic A Spiritualist tells lady mediums how to avoid involuntary commitment to lunatic asylums.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 29, 2017
in medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged George Boole , involuntary committal , Mary Everest Boole , Mrs George Boole , Spiritualism and lunacy laws , The Voluntary Lunatic , Victorian insane asylums , Victorian spiritualism
Dr. Slade, the Medium and the strange stories whispered about him.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 12, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , Dr. Slade , Dr. Slade the Medium , homosexuals , shamans , slate writing , spirit messages , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , the Medium , transsexuals , Victorian 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 Busy Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots Beautiful, royal, martyred, misunderstood: Mary, Queen of Scots was perfectly cast to be a spiritualist icon. Let us look at some of her manifestations in and out of the séance room.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 8, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged ghost of Mary Queen of Scots , Lady Caithless , Mary Queen of Scots , Queen of Scots , seance , The Busy Afterlife of Mary , the Duchesse de Pomar , Victorian spiritualism
“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.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 12, 2013
in Crime , Ephemera , News , Psychic Research , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged "Just Medium": Spiritualist Humor and Satire , jokes , satire , Spiritualist medium , spiritualist satire , Victorian spiritualism
