Mediumship
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Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". The
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
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
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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