the dillon tribune (dillon, mont.) 1881-1941 — spirit rapping
- Date of account
- Newspaper page published 1886-06-05
- Location
- dillon, montana, united states
- Source
- Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
- Reference
- the dillon tribune (dillon, mont.) 1881-1941 · 1886-06-05 · page 6
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English OCR
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
A 1886-06-05 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “spirit rapping”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention only... occult manifestations, once .satisfied liy spirit rapping, planchette, and ghostly manifestations, pandered to by ghost stories which are creating n furor, is after all only n revival. Forty years ago. in HMfi. at the ultra retilted literary recep tions of I.ady Blessing;on. a young French girl, introduced by a friend of the hostess, laid the foundation of her future reputa tion in fortune telling, it was .Mile, lie Normand, the modern pyth-.uess. i.ady Klessington, who )ml bem informed by lier Parisian.eorivspondeat of the miracu lous gifts of her protege, determined to try her before she eould have' become ac quainted with any of the persons present, or even ascertain their names. Three men were successively ...
Historical context
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Modern context
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