Leonora Piper
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Leonora Piper was a famous American trance medium in the area of Spiritualism. Piper was the subject of intense interest and investigation by American and British psychic research associations during the early 20th century, most notably William James and the Society for Psychical Research.
Leonora Piper
Frederic Myers like all of Piper's controls failed to prove his identity.
G. Stanley Hall from his psychological tests on Piper revealed that her "controls" were fictitious and not spirits of the dead.
Mediumship
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Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". There are different types of mediumship or spirit channelling, including séance tables, trance, and ouija. The practice is associated with spiritualism and spiritism. A similar New Age practice is known as channeling.
Medium Eva Carrière photographed in 1912 with a light appearing between her hands.
Séance conducted by John Beattie, Bristol, England, 1872
Colin Evans, who claimed spirits lifted him into the air, was exposed as a fraud.
A photograph of the medium Linda Gazzera with a doll as fake ectoplasm