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Excerpt from An Amazing Séance and an Exposure D. There are fraudulent mediums. If I come across any, I shall expose them. But they will neither prove nor disprove the genuineness or otherwise of spiritualism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
. . . Polidoro has written--and written well--a saga of two Titans that is also a remarkable exploration of both superstition and obsession, at the lush twilight of the Edwardian era.--Baltimore SunThis is the story of an unusual friendship between two of the most intriguing characters of the early 20th century-renowned escape artist Harry Houdini and celebrated mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes). Both men were fascinated by the occult practice of spiritualism, Houdini as an ardent skeptic who often publicly exposed fraudulent mediums and Conan Doyle as a true believer who became convinced that the dead could and did communicate with the living. Despite their differing perspectives the two men not only respected each other but became friends. The correspondence between them on the subject provides a fascinating glimpse not only into the personalities of two talented and interesting celebrities but also into a psychic phenomenon that is the ancestor of today's channeling craze.Based on original correspondence, photographs, and his own extensive research, Massimo Polidoro reconstructs this unusual friendship between a believer and a skeptic, which weathered mediums, seances, an apparition of Houdini's departed mother, automatic writing by Conan Doyle's wife, public debunkings, and hurt feelings. He also discusses the final rift that ended the friendship of the two strong-willed men. Fans of Conan Doyle, Houdini, magic, and the historical roots of the New Age will be delighted by this amazing story.Massimo Polidoro is executive director of the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, editor of Scienza & Paranormale (Science and the Paranormal), and author of twelve books on the paranormal.
Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar: the first magician to receive international fame and the model for the Wizard of Oz! In this illustrated biography of the most well-known illusionist at the turn of the twentieth century, Author Gail Jarrow follows Kellar from a magician's assistant traveling and performing across the United States during the Civil War to an international superstar with a show of his own, entertaining emperors, kings, and presidents. Jarrow uses Kellar's own words and images—his amazing four-color promotional posters—to tell his riveting story in this first Kellar biography for young readers. And she reveals the science behind Kellar's illusions and explores nineteenth-century entertainment and transportation as well as the history of magic, spiritualism, and séances.
The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things—including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph—as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.
The art of divination has been the practice of many people in several cultures for centuries. This book will be looking at some occult divination, which seeks knowledge through the assistance of spirit helpers, mediums, witchdoctors, and their supernatural agencies. In addition, it will seek to give us some answers to many of the challenges of the occult craft of conjuration and wizardry illusions commonly associated with spiritualism, witchcraft, and ceremonial magic. The book is the second part of our cosmic warfare series on angels that we hope will educate our readers about the nature of the psychic phenomenon associated with voodoo, spells, fortune-telling, magic, etc. The God of the universe gave humankind the free will and coexistent religious tolerance to practice witchcraft (or any other religion). However, since demons and fallen angels claim to be God, the Almighty Creator has made it clear that we must all take responsibility for whatever we believe, both now and in the afterlife. Furthermore, each must coexist peacefully without disturbing another person (read this divine policy of grace in Yeshua's parable of the wheat and the tares in Mathew 13: 24-30). This second book in the series on angels is a must-read guidebook in comparative religion. We hope it will inform and equip the diligent with information about deliverance from the powers of darkness. In our modern society, many live with the fear of witchery and magical spells. We believe this material will empower you, first of all, with the knowledge that will enable you, the reader, to understand the truth about these occult psychic phenomena and manipulations. Secondly, the contents of this unique series will teach people how to use their authority in Jesus the Messiah to overcome these enemies. All over the world, millions of people desire assistance from the kingdom of darkness in the time of adversity. Many Bible students and scholars have speculated about King Saul, the witch of Endor, and the spirit visitors that night. Who were the spiritual personalities that appeared in that witchery scene at Endor? This book has a narrative about that historic event that may puzzle your imagination.