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Its made Visible by Lightning--Scarcely Credible but True--A Game of Euchre--Margaret's Dream--Mistaken Names…

Date of account: Published 1885
Source: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
Reference: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism · selected passage 3
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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its made Visible by Lightning--Scarcely Credible but True--A Game of Euchre--Margaret's Dream--Mistaken Names Corrected by Spirits--An Unwilling Convert made Grateful and Happy--A Spirit Knows better than the Postmaster--Opening of a Combination Lock--A Visitor Magnetized into a Medium Himself--Curious Story about a Mutilated Limb--Disturbance in the Troup Street Cottage--A Caution against Cruelty to Orphan Children--Mrs. Hopper's Mysterious End--"Touch Samantha"--"I felt my Handkercher Tied Tighter every Minit"--"No Brimstone yet"--Kitchen Work by Night--'Sich a Gittin' up Stairs'--The Death of Isaac T. Hopper--William M. Thackeray--"Witch Stories"--George Thompson--A Child's Letter--Extracts from D. Underhill's Minute Book--Practical Jokes Performed and Rebuked--A Prophetic Dream--James A.

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