Author: Emma Hardinge afterwards BrittenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Modern American Spiritualism. A Twenty Years' Record of the Communion Between Earth and the World of Spirits. New Introduction by E.J. Dingwall
Author: Emma Hardinge afterwards BrittenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Talking to the Dead
Author: Barbara WeisbergPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061755168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Barbara Weisberg’s Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism. A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement—and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery. In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox—sisters aged eleven and fourteen—anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had been hearing strange, unidentified sounds in their house. From a sequence of knocks and rattles translated by the young girls as a "voice from beyond," the Modern Spiritualism movement was born. Talking to the Dead follows the fascinating story of the two girls who were catapulted into an odd limelight after communicating with spirits that March night. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to séances. An international movement followed. Yet thirty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying they had ever contacted spirits. Shortly after, the sisters once again changed their story and reaffirmed their belief in the spirit world. Weisberg traces not only the lives of the Fox sisters and their family (including their mysterious Svengali–like sister Leah) but also the social, religious, economic and political climates that provided the breeding ground for the movement. While this is a thorough, compelling overview of a potent time in US history, it is also an incredible ghost story.
Exploring the Macabre, Malevolent, and Mysterious
Author: Matthew HodgePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527560058
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this unique volume, a number of scholars spanning diverse areas and backgrounds offer fresh insight into how perceived concepts of horror and dark subject matter influence cultures and societies around the world. The contributions here explore how topics considered disturbing, mysterious, or fascinating are found not only in works of fiction and entertainment, but also in the cultural fabrics, belief systems, artistic creations, and even governmental structures of societies. Topics discussed in this book include witchcraft, voodoo, zombies, spiritualism, serial killers, monsters, cemeteries, pop culture entertainment, and the sublime in transcendental experiences. As the academic study of horror becomes more mainstream, collections such as this are instrumental in realizing just how much it impacts our lives—past, present, future, and imaginary. Thus, this volume of intriguing and profound topics offers scholars, students, and lovers of learning a much-needed fresh and innovative intellectual exploration of the horror genre and the cultural fascination with the mysterious unknown.
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Religious Books, 1876-1982
Author: Catalog of Folklore, Folklife, and Folk Songs
Author: Cleveland Public Library. John G. White DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Dept. of BibliographyPublisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Author: The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.