Florence Cook (medium)
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Florence Eliza Cook was a medium who claimed to materialise a spirit, "Katie King". The question of whether the spirit was real or a fraud was a notable public controversy of the mid-1870s. Her abilit
Katie King, Florence Cook and Sir William Crookes
Daniel Dunglas Home
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Daniel Dunglas Home was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. His biograph
Florence Cook (medium)
…of friends and spectators, under my own conditions, and I may do whatever I like as regards apparatus" (Doyle 1926: volume 1, 177). The alleged medium Daniel Dunglas Home asserted that Crookes was duped by Cook. A 15-year-old Cook, alone in Crookes' house with Crookes' friends and family as witnesses, was said to have…
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Daniel Dunglas Home, 1865-1870
William Cullen Bryant, a poet, and editor of the New York Evening Post, who witnessed one of Home's séances
Robert Browning, who wrote "Sludge the Medium" about Home