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Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances

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Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances - Morton, Lisa
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Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer's Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism - when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born. Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by 'spirit rappings'; Daniel Dunglas Home, the 'greatest medium of all time'; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft ...

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Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances 2022, Reaktion Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781789146493

Trade paperback

Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances 2021, Reaktion Books

ISBN-13: 9781789142808

Hardcover