Spiritualism (movement)
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Spiritualism is a social religious movement popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, according to which an individual's awareness persists after death and may be contacted by the livin
By 1853, when the popular song "Spirit Rappings" was published, spiritualism was an object of intense curiosity.
Spiritualism was equated by some Christians with witchcraft. This 1865 broadsheet, published in the United States, also blamed spiritualism for causing the American Civil War.
Franz Mesmer
The Fox sisters
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