Very briefly, the story was as follows: Mr
- Date of account
- Published 1923
- Source
- The Case Against Spirit Photographs
- Reference
- The Case Against Spirit Photographs · selected passage 72
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
Very briefly, the story was as follows: Mr
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyVery briefly, the story was as follows: Mr. Davey was an amateur conjurer of some skill who set himself to imitate by trickery the performances of Slade, Eglington, and other exponents of “slate-writing” phenomena. In this he succeeded to admiration--so much so that certain spiritualists characteristically insisted that he _must_ be a very powerful “medium”! He scrupulously denied himself the advantage of claiming his results as supernormal, but in spite of this found no difficulty in imposing on his sitters. The latter were encouraged to take every possible precaution against trickery and were instructed to write the most careful reports of what occurred.
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Modern context
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