The Brazilian Spiritist Journal O Reformador’s Mediumship Reports

Record summary

Early issues of Reformador contain a potentially rich corpus of Brazilian reports about séances, automatic writing, spiritual instruction, possession-like experiences, and healing. The periodical is identifiable, dated, and searchable, making it useful for comparing first-person testimony with editorial framing and later institutional memory. These reports are not independent verification of paranormal events: they are movement-produced documents whose authorship, editing, and social setting require analysis. A focused sample could examine how ordinary trance, illness, fraud accusations, and religious experience were classified in late-imperial Brazil.