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The snowballs were packed so tightly that they did not break on striking, though they were thrown with force, and Kirk was considerably bruised by them
Read record →So hideous is this demon that few of the mountaineers have courage to drink here, and they refuse to believe that the apparition is caused by the shape of the basin, or aberrated reflection of their own faces
Read record →Her friends commended to her affections a young chief who had valiantly defended the village against an attack of hostiles, but Juliet would none of this dusky Count de Paris, adhering faithfully to her Romeo
Read record →The air then seemed to be flooded with rosy light and thousands of sylvan genii ascended altars of rock, by steps of rainbow, to offer incense and greet the sun with song
Read record →The Indians account in this manner for the birth of the White Mountains: A red hunter who had wandered for days through the forest without finding game dropped exhausted on the snow, one night, and awaited death
Read record →rom my early career as a mystical entertainer I have been interested in Spiritualism as belonging to the category of mysticism, and as a side line to my own phase of mystery shows I have associated myself with mediums, joining the rank and file and held seance
Read record →In attending seances I have always made a pledge of honor with myself to banish all profane thoughts from my mind to the utmost of my ability
Read record →Distressed relatives catch at the least word which may remotely indicate that the Spirit which they seek is in communication with them
Read record →The fact that they are scientists does not endow them with an especial gift for detecting the particular sort of fraud used by mediums, nor does it bar them from being deceived, especially when they are fortified in their belief by grief, for the various books
Read record →During the last thirty years I have read every single piece of literature on the subject of Spiritualism that I could
Read record →This much travelled, much experienced man of the world was instantly and irresistibly attracted to the young medium
Read record →“Then the next day I would drown my remorse in wine
Read record →This second marriage was most romantic
Read record →Sothern, who were appearing at the Theatre Royal
Read record →“At the termination of the seance a general conversation took place on the subject of what we had heard and witnessed
Read record →“Some persons think that the requirement of darkness seems to infer trickery
Read record →Then too his mother had the reputation of being possessed of so-called “second-sight” and he may have inherited traits which helped to make the life of a medium look attractive to him
Read record →whose chief purpose seems to have been to establish the impression that while all other mediums cheated at times Home was strictly honest on all occasions, and in proof it was said that he was never exposed and never received a fee for his sittings
Read record →“He had dematerialized a splendid row of emeralds lent the “dear spirits” for the purpose of the test; but up to the time of his departure from the seance, the emeralds, for some occult reason, had declined to materialize and be given back to the confiding own
Read record →She was seventy-five years old and besides being wealthy in her own right had been left ample means by her husband
Read record →The attachment between the widow of seventy-five and the medium of thirty-three grew apace and soon the spirit of her husband suggested that she adopt Home as her son “for he would be such a comfort to her.” The suggestion was immediately acted upon and the me
Read record →Home gained wide notoriety for unusual phenomena by his reputed levitation acts, wherein he would slide from the chair on which he was sitting to a horizontal position, then ask to have the chair removed as it was not supporting him, and would “float” under a
Read record →All of these men were experienced seance observers[50] but the report of their conclusions shows how easily such experts were deceived by the very tricks which were later proved fraudulent by the New York branch of The Society for Psychical Research
Read record →Although the seances were being conducted secretly by the scientists one of them, Professor Dickinson S
Read record →Sargent, a past-president of the Society of American Magicians, and for years my private secretary
Read record →“After the arrival of Eusapia and Mr
Read record →“We looked pleased and Eusapia began to feel at home
Read record →(5) Every one present knew that the table was steadied at the top by Eusapia’s hand, which rested upon mine, in turn bore down over the table leg, held up presumably by Eusapia’s toe which formed a perfect human clamp.[51](6) What Rinn and Pyne told us after t
Read record →We must notice too the methods of conducting the seances in which such diverse results were obtained
Read record →When Carrington brought Palladino to this country he announced that he did so in the interest of “science.” Publicity was not to be ignored though and consequently the first seance was given before newspaper men
Read record →Personally, I had to witness six seances before I was irrevocably and finally convinced of the reality of the fact
Read record →“I may remark just here that this medium has been caught in trickery from time to time, and will almost invariably resort to it unless she is prevented from doing so by the rigidity of the control (that is, the degree of certainty obtained in holding her hands
Read record →There is no question but what Palladino was given to fraud.[55] In personal conversations with Hon
Read record →“Eusapia Palladino is dead and I have little doubt that she departed hence without forgiving me for the part I took in spoiling her business in America by assisting in the exposure of her little bag of tricks
Read record →f the bar accepted as genuine so gratefully and without question that the woman saw at once that she had opened up a new field with more and greater possibilities than she had ever worked before; she realized that she had gifts which fitted her to be a first c
Read record →Such success led to carelessness and exposures followed, so numerous and complete that it is quite unnecessary to list them all here.[68] Every once in a while though some medium still takes a chance when opportunity offers and gives a test to especially gulli
Read record →They had been laying their plans to expose two other mediums, Herne and Williams, but Slade’s unexpected arrival in London changed these plans and instead they plotted the seance which proved to be Slade’s downfall
Read record →When the time for the “seance” arrived, Barney, Kellar’s clever young assistant, was seated on a platform in the room underneath the trap with the assortment of slates by his side
Read record →This was the name of Slade’s deceased wife, a fact which Truesdell happened to know
Read record →“In the Autumn of 1881 or 82, Henry Slade, the famous Spirit medium, came to Philadelphia and took quarters at the Colonade Hotel, where he opened a room, in which to hold seances
Read record →“The seance began, with Slade holding two slates of rather large size, and showing all their surfaces devoid of writing, placed them on the top of the table, and while rubbing their surfaces kept up a running fire of conversation
Read record →“During this demonstration and indeed throughout the entire seance, Slade sat sidewise to the table, his left hand resting generally on its top and his right hand free
Read record →“On our second visit I need recount but three effects: First, difference in the method of obtaining writing on the large slates which began the seance, as in the first visit
Read record →While searching for material about Slade I heard of an old medium living in Philadelphia by the name of Remigius Weiss, known as Remigius Albus, who had testified before the Seybert Commission regarding Slade’s manipulation of the slates
Read record →Slade had handled and inspected that Book and Slate, during a Seance, at my residence (at 148 Fairmount Avenue, Phila., Pa.), where I, together with Mr
Read record →“Each person present at the Seance, wrote, independent of and before communicating with, the others, a personal, individual report of the Seance and signed it within the next few days
Read record →“In these newspapers I had described him (Dr
Read record →The Doctor answered the knock in person, taking the slate with him, and while listening to some commonplace report the slates were exchanged
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