3690:. Munn & Company. pp. 105–106. "Dr. Henry Slade was, of course, identified and recognized as the principal slate-writing medium, but at various times he presented other phenomena, one of which was the playing of an accordion while held in one hand under the table. The accordion was taken by him from the table with his right hand, at the end containing the strap, the keys or notes at the other end being away from him. He thus held the accordion beneath the table, and his left hand was laid on top of the table, where it was always in plain view. Nevertheless, the accordion was heard to give forth melodious tunes, and at the conclusion was brought up on top of the table as held originally; the whole dodge consisting in turning the accordion end for end as it went under the table. The strap end being now downward, and held between the legs, the medium's hand grasped the keyboard end, and worked the bellows and keys, holding the accordion firmly with the legs and working the hand, not with an arm movement, but mostly by a simple wrist movement. Of course, at the conclusion, the hand grasped the accordion at the strap end, and brought it up in this condition. Sometimes an accordion is tied with strings and sealed so the bellows cannot be worked. This is for the dark séance. Even in this condition the accordion is played by inserting a tube in the air-hole or valve and by the medium's using his lungs as bellows."
2406:"After nightfall, Mr. Lambert believes, Home made fast a double loop of rope on the roof where chimneys would make this readily feasible. It hung down unseen to the level of the two windows on the third floor. Subway construction and its debris in Victoria Street that year would have cut evening pedestrian traffic almost to nothing. Lord Adare acknowledged that the night was so dark he could not see what supported the psychic outside. Home "swung out and in," he reported, which firmly suggests that the American lay horizontally in a double rope sling suspended from above. He simply swung in and out of the room, an Alpine double rope maneuvre in mountaineering called abseiling. The three witnesses indoors had been ordered to stand back from the windows. "Conditions for close observation could hardly have been worse," Lambert writes. "It was a dangerous experiment, but it came off, and did much to re-establish D.D.H.'s reputation as a wizard, which had been recently somewhat tarnished by the evidence much publicised, in the case "Lyon v. Home."
3543:. E. Arnold. p. 126. "Sir William Crookes gives detailed accounts of marvelous happenings, but two mediums in whom he had implicit trust were detected in deliberate fraud by other people, so that his critical powers failed him. Some of his accounts show curious lapses. In one experiment an accordion is placed in a cage under the table and Mr. Home puts his hand into the top of the cage to do psychic things with the instrument. The temperature of the room is carefully recorded (that doesn't matter, but imparts a scientific flavor to the observations) although we are not told why the experiment was done under the table instead of in a more convenient position on top of it, though ' my assistant went under the table, and reported that the accordion was expanding and contracting,' and ' Dr. A. B. now looked under the table and said that Mr. Home's hand appeared quite still.' Sir William would never have made such an omission if he had been using the same reasoning powers that he used in his scientific descriptions."
3627:. Chicago: Laird & Lee. pp. 113–114. "The apparatus consists of a small circular musical box, wound up by clock work, and made to play whenever pressure is put upon a stud projecting a quarter of an inch from its surface. This box is strapped around the right leg of the medium just above his knee, and hidden beneath the trouser leg. When not in use it is on the under side of the leg. On the table a musical box is placed and covered with a soup tureen, or the top of a chafing dish. When the spectators are seated, the medium works the concealed musical box around to the upper part of his leg near the knee cap, and by pressing the stud against the under surface of the table, starts the music playing. In this way the second musical box seems to play and the acoustic effect is perfect. Perhaps Home used a similar contrivance; Dr. Monck did, and was caught in the act by the chief of the Detective Police."
3040:. Book Club Associates. pp. 95-96. "Home's spirit hands seemed to be long kid gloves stuffed with some substance, and Browning thought that they were fixed to Home's feet. This was a device of some mediums, and in the dim light of the séance actual feet could simulate spirit hands, especially those of children or not quite materialised hands. Even when adjacent sitters were keeping their feet on the medium's shoes this could be accomplished by the use of metal toe-caps on the medium's boots. The foot could also double for a spirit baby. This could be strapped to the medium's belt until needed, or to the leg a few inches above the ankle. When the séance lights 'accidentally' went out, the medium could thrust a stocking foot into the dummy hand, and by resting the foot on the other knee, the spirit hand or spirit baby could peep over the table in an astounding manner."
1519:. Dodd, Mead and Company. pp. 110-112. A Mr. Merrifield was present at one of the sittings. Home's usual phenomena were messages, the moving of objects (presumably at a distance), and the playing of an accordion which he held with one hand under the shadow of the table. But from an early date in America he had been accustomed occasionally to "materialise" hands (as it was afterwards called). The sitters would, in the darkness, faintly see a ghostly hand and arm, or they might feel the touch of an icy limb. Mr. Merrifield and the other sitters saw a "spirit-hand" stretch across the faintly lit space of the window. But Mr. Merrifield says that Home sat, or crouched, low in a low chair, and that the "spirit-hand" was a false limb on the end of Home's arm. At other times, he says, he saw that Home was using his foot."
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professor is "taking down his notes" for the public press, he reverses the accordion, and attaching the false keyboard on the bottom by means of a small hook attached to it, fastens it to the side of the basket; having now the real keyboard in his hand he is able to produce musical sounds. Afterward the accordion floated about in the basket under the table, without the contact of Mr. Home's hand. This subsequent phenomenon was given to avoid immediate examination of the first by keeping
Professor Crookes in suspense, and giving the medium time to reverse the instrument and conceal in his clothing the false key-board which had been on the bottom of the instrument. The accordion was suspended by means of a small hook fastened to dark thread, which would be invisible in the gas-light.
2477:"How could Home levitate himself in a room with the lights out? One method used then, and later, by mediums is most convincing. In the dark the psychic slips off his shoes as he tells the sitters his body is becoming weightless. The sitter to the medium's left grasps his left hand, the one to the right puts a hand on the mystic's shoes, near the toes. Holding his shoes together with his right hand pressing the inner sides, the medium slowly raises them in the air as he first squats then stands on his chair. The man holding his hand reports the medium is ascending; so does the sitter who touches the shoes. Until I tried this myself, it was hard to believe that spectators in the dark room could be convinced an ascension was being made."
3762:. P. J. Kenedy & Sons. p. 68. "After a few minutes of expectation I give a signal to a friend behind the partition who plays a tune on another accordion. As he is invisible and as the source of the sound is not discoverable, especially when attention is riveted on the visible instrument, the effect is as convincing as the humbug is simple. The power of a demonstration is usually in direct ratio to the stupidity of the device that produces it. Sometimes my friend, taken up with his playing, fails to notice the signal to desist, and continues his tune after the accordion is no longer suspended. The effect of this little slip in arrangements is even more extraordinary on the auditors, as it was on Sir William Crookes."
3722:. Book Club Associates. p. 88 "The two most prominent instruments at séances were probably the guitar and the accordion. The latter was one of Home's favorite props: his special instrument was ornately-decorated, with a very short keyboard. Its shape was dumpy and squat more like a concertina than an accordion. Except when it was playing by itself away from everyone, he held it beneath a table, his hands away from the keys. Stage conjurors, the most damaging witnesses against séance tricks, explained how it could be done. The accordion was on a loop of catgut, by which means Home could turn the accordion round. There was also on the market a self-playing accordion."
1218:. Carpenter wrote that although Crookes, his assistant and Sergeant Cox claimed to have observed the accordion float in the cage; Dr. Huggins did not testify to this, and no information was given to whether the keys and bellows were seen to move. According to Carpenter no solid explanation could be given until the experiment is repeated, however, he suggested that the accordion feat that Home performed may have been a conjuring trick achieved with one hand. Carpenter concluded that Crookes should repeat the experiment in open daylight without the cage in the presence of other witnesses.
868:. One of the séance sitters known as General Fleury also suspected that Home was utilizing trickery and asked to leave but returned unobserved to watch from another door behind Home. He saw Home slip his foot from his shoe and touch the arm of the Empress, who believed it to be one of her dead children. The observer stepped forward and revealed the fraud, and Home was conducted out of the country: "The order was to keep the incident secret." The allegations described by Dr. Barthez and General Fleury are second hand and have caused dispute between psychical researchers and skeptics.
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shadow on the wall of Home entering the room horizontally; and as the moon, by whose light he professes to have seen the shadow, was at the most only three days old, his testimony is absolutely worthless. Lord Adare claims only that he saw Home, in the dark, "standing upright outside our window." In the dark—it was an almost moonless
December night—one could not, as a matter of fact, say very positively whether Home was outside or inside; but, in any case, he acknowledges that there was a nineteen-inch window-sill outside the window, and Home could stand on that.
351:. Ministers were called to the Cooks' house: a Baptist, a Congregationalist, and even a Wesleyan minister, who all believed that Home was possessed by the Devil, although Home believed it was a gift from God. According to Home, the knocking did not stop, and a table started to move by itself, even though Home's aunt put a bible on it and then placed her full body weight on it. According to Lamont, the noises did not stop and were attracting the unwanted attention of Cook's neighbours, so Home was told to leave the house.
320:, which is about 155 miles (249 km) from Greeneville, although Home in his own book stated it was 300 miles (480 km) away. Home lost contact with Edwin until one night when Home, according to Lamont, saw a brightly lit vision of him standing at the foot of the bed, which gave Home the feeling that his friend was dead. Edwin made three circles in the air before disappearing, and a few days later a letter arrived stating that Edwin had died of malignant
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1557:"He then saw the latter open the sole of his right shoe, leave his naked foot some time on the marble floor, then suddenly with a rapid and extraordinarily agile movement, touch with his toes the hand of the Empress, who started, crying "The hand of a dead child has touched me!" General Fleury came forward and described what he had seen. The following day Home was embarked at Calais conducted by two agents; the order was to keep the incident secret."
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it had been obtained by spiritual influence. Under
British law, the defendant bears the burden of proof in such a case, and proof was impossible since there was no physical evidence. The case was decided against Home, Mrs Lyon's money was returned, and the press pilloried Home's reputation. Home's high society acquaintances thought that he behaved like a complete gentleman throughout the ordeal, and he did not lose a single important friend.
838:, 5 December 1902, also referred to the incident, saying that Browning had caught hold of Home's foot under the table. The allegation was repeated by Harry Houdini and later writers. But detailed descriptions of the séance written soon afterwards by Robert and Elizabeth make no mention of any such incident. Browning's account states that, although he was promised that he would be allowed to hold a "spirit-hand," the promise was not kept.
2445:. London: Watts & Co. pp. 50–51 "Sir Arthur tells us that "there are altogether on record some fifty or sixty cases of levitation on the part of Home... no reliable witness, giving us a precise account of the circumstances, has ever claimed that he saw Home off the ground and clear of all furniture... The whole of these recorded miracles reek with evidence of charlatanry. The lights were always put out, and Home in nearly all cases
3056:. Laird & Lee, Publishers. pp. 106–107. "The "coal" is a piece of spongy platinum which bears a close resemblance to a lump of half burnt coal, and is palmed in the hand, as a prestidigitateur conceals a coin, a pack of cards, an egg, or a small lemon. The medium or magician advances to the grate and pretends to take a genuine lump of coal from the fire but brings up instead at the tops of his fingers, the piece of platinum."
2985:"Home's most celebrated séances were claimed to have been presented in partial darkness or, on a few occasions, in full light. But "light" as Home and his followers would describe would often amount to only one or two candles, perhaps augmented by the glow from a fireplace or by light coming through a window. Home would adjust the lighting to accommodate the evening's events—with no objections from the sitters."
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no balconies at all (Lindsay). The windows were 85 feet from the street (Lindsay); 70 feet (Lindsay); 80 feet (Home); on the third floor (Adare); on the first floor (Adare). It was dark (Adare); there was a bright moonlight (Lindsay). Home was asleep in one room and the witnesses went into the next (Adare); Home left the witnesses in one room and went himself into the next (Adare).
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242:(six miles south-west of Edinburgh). William was described as a "bitter, morose and unhappy man" who drank, and was often aggressive towards his wife. Elizabeth had eight children while living in the mill house: six sons and two daughters, although their lives were not fully recorded. The eldest, John, later worked in the Balerno mill and eventually managed a paper mill in
3437:. Henry Holt and Company. p. 51 "Sir W. Crookes having called at Home's apartments to fetch him for the experiments, the medium actually changed his dress in Sir William's presence. But what was there to prevent Home's slipping into the pocket of his overcoat a small musical box, a loop of black silk, and a hook with a sharp end? No further "apparatus" would be required."
440:. Thackeray dismissed Home's abilities as "dire humbug", and "dreary and foolish superstition", although Thackeray had been impressed when he saw a table turning. Home thought that Thackeray was "the most sceptical inquirer" he had ever met, and as Thackeray made his thoughts public, Home faced public scepticism and further scrutiny. Home travelled between
993:, and Home. Crookes' final report in 1874 concluded that the phenomena produced by all three mediums were genuine, a result which was roundly derided by the scientific establishment. Crookes recorded that he controlled and secured Home by placing his feet on the top of Home's feet. Crookes' method of foot control later proved inadequate when used with
1200:. One of Home's hands was placed on the top of the table, and the other inside the cage which held an accordion on the non-key side, so the keyed end was hanging downwards. The accordion was reported to have played musical sounds. However, the amount of light in the room was not stated, and the accordion was not observed in good light. According to
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2832:. Laird & Lee, Publishers. pp. 105-106 "The host stood near the mantel piece and has seen Home abstractedly place a small bottle upon it when he left the room for the staircase. That bottle the host quietly slipped into his pocket. Upon examination the next day it was found to contain phosphorated olive oil or some similar preparation."
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423:, a successful silk manufacturer, he was reportedly seen to levitate twice and then rise to up to the ceiling, with louder rappings and knocking than ever before, more aggressive table movements and the sounds of a ship at sea in a storm, although persons present said that the room was badly lit so as to see the spirit lights.
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commented that the experiments were poorly controlled; he gave the example of Home requesting all hands to be removed from the table whilst all those present complied. Stenger noted that "Crookes gullibly swallowed ploys such as this and allowed Home to call the shots... his desire to believe blinded
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The incident took place at 5 Buckingham Gate, Kensington (Adare); at Ashley Place, Westminster (Adare); at
Victoria Street, Westminster (Lindsay). There was a ledge 4 inches wide below the windows (Adare); a ledge 1½ inches wide (Lindsay); no foothold at all (Lindsay); balconies 7 feet apart (Adare);
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In 1866, Mrs Jane Lyon, a wealthy widow, adopted Home as her son, giving him £60,000 in an attempt to gain introduction into high society. Finding that the adoption did not change her social situation, Lyon changed her mind, and brought a suit for the return of her money from Home on the grounds that
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newspaper stating that the room was well lit, full inspections were allowed, and said, "We know that we were not imposed upon nor deceived". It was also reported that at one of Home's demonstrations five men of heavy build (with a combined weight of 850 pounds) sat on a table, but it still moved, and
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Elizabeth's third child, and was born on 20 March 1833. He was baptised by the Reverend Mr. Somerville three weeks after his birth at Currie Parish Church on 14 April 1833. The one-year-old Home was deemed a delicate child, having a "nervous temperament", and was passed to Elizabeth's
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heavily criticized the design of the accordion experiment as it took place under a dining room table. Earwaker who read
Crookes' report noted that "no reason for this strangest of all strange positions is even hinted at." He also wrote "it never occurred to to notice whether the keys were depressed
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There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this brainy man was hoodwinked, and that his confidence was betrayed by the so-called mediums that he tested. His powers of observation were blinded and his reasoning faculties so blunted by his prejudice in favor of anything psychic or occult that he
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questioned the origin and weight of the board used with the balance spring apparatus. Sellers wrote that a standard mahogany board weighs around thirteen and half pounds but the one used in
Crookes' experiment may have been at fault at only six pounds. Crookes responded to Sellers claiming the board
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has noted that "While the statement that Home was never caught in fraud has been made many times, it simply is not true... It is simply that Home was never publicly exposed in fraud. Privately, he was caught in fraud several times. In addition, there are natural explanations both possible and likely
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It is probably worth noting, if only to avoid confusion, that such claims (much like those made by spiritualists that conjurors were unable to explain the phenomena) were often unfounded. For example, spiritualists claimed that Robert-Houdin had been unable to explain what happened at a Home seance,
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Browning's letter is transcribed by William Lyon Phelps, in "Robert Browning on Spiritualism," Yale Review, new series 23 (1933), pp. 129–135, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's by Leonard Huxley, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Letters to her Sister, 1846 to 1859, (1929), pp. 218–221. See also
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or open window. Home would adjust the lighting to his needs with no objections from his séance sitters. For example, there is this report from a witness: "The room was very dark ... Home's hands were visible only as a faint white heap". Home selected the séance sitters who sat next to him, his
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in 1857. Home wore thin shoes, easy to take off and draw on, and also cut socks that left the toes free. "At the appropriate moment he takes off one of his shoes and with his foot pulls a dress here, a dress there, rings a bell, knocks one way and another, and, the thing done, quickly puts his shoe
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Home never directly asked for money, although he lived very well on gifts, donations and lodging from wealthy admirers. He felt that he was on a "mission to demonstrate immortality", and wished to interact with his clients as one gentleman to another, rather than as an employee. In 1852, Home was a
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In the darkened room, recorders of Home's séances would report the way his voice seemed to come from on high and that they could feel his shoes at face level. This indicates just how dark the room must have been. The smell of boot polish enhanced the effect. All of this could easily be achieved by
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The trick has since been often repeated and explained. The medium must have the semblance of key-board, made of some light material, concealed in his coat sleeve or about his person. This he attaches to the bottom of the accordion which he holds in his hand. Then when unobserved, while the learned
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in the summer of 1853. He resided at the
Theological Institute, but took no part in any of the theological discussions held there, as he wanted to take a course in medicine. Dr. Hull funded Home's studies, and offered to pay Home five dollars a day for his séances, but Home refused, as always. His
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The journalist Delia Logan who attended a séance with Home in London claimed that Home had used a phosphorus trick. During the séance luminous hands were observed and the host told Logan that had seen Home place a small bottle upon the mantle piece. The host slipped the bottle into his pocket and
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No one professes to have seen Home carried from window to window. Home told the three men who were present that he was going to be wafted, and he thus set up a state of very nervous expectation... Both Lord
Crawford and Lord Adare say that they were warned. Then Lord Crawford says that he saw the
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of the Netherlands, who wrote: "I saw him four times...I felt a hand tipping my finger; I saw a heavy golden bell moving alone from one person to another; I saw my handkerchief move alone and return to me with a knot... He himself is a pale, sickly, rather handsome young man but without a look or
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wrote the experiment was not scientific and questioned why the experiment was done under the table instead of in a more convenient position on top of it. Before the accordion experiment with Crookes, Home had performed the accordion feat for over fifteen years under various conditions but always
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noted that the experiments were not conducted in broad daylight before a large unbiased audience and the results were inconclusive. Stewart suspected the phenomena observed were "subjective, rather than objective, occurring in the imaginations of those present rather than in the outward physical
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argued that Home did this to provide "a rough sketch of the picture which he aimed at producing". Another possible natural explanation for Home's famous levitation was proposed by the psychical researcher Guy William Lambert who suggested he had attached a rope to the chimneys on the roof of the
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wrote that Home may have placed a musical box in his pocket or on the floor. According to McCabe "the opening and shutting of the accordion could be done by hooks, or loops of black silk. So with the crowning miracle, when Home withdrew his hand, and the accordion was seen suspended in the air,
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who catalogued Home's collection on its arrival at the SPR did not record the presence of the mouth organs, and Lamont speculates that it is unlikely Dingwall would have missed these or not made them public. The accordion in the SPR collection is not the actual one Home used. They display a
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in 1871 he did not mention all the names of the observers present in the room. Wiley has stated that four females were present during the experiments as was Crookes' brother and the original report by Crookes did not refer to any spirits but many years later in 1889 he revealed in his
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375:. Home held his first séance in March 1851, which was reported in a Hartford newspaper managed by W. R. Hayden, who wrote that the table moved without anyone touching it, and kept moving when Hayden physically tried to stop it. After the newspaper report, Home became well known in
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Home could easily have produced the sound of the accordion (concertina) by the use of a small harmonica concealed in his mouth. The up and down movement of the accordion could easily have been produced by catching the bottom of the accordion in a loop of black thread, or on a
1397:. They had a son, Gregoire ("Grisha"), but Alexandria fell ill with tuberculosis, and died in 1862. In October 1871, Home married for the second, and last time, to Julie de Gloumeline, a wealthy Russian, whom he also met in St Petersburg. In the process, he converted to the
3527:. Frederick Warne & Co. p. 173. " accordion test with Mr. Home was absurd: fancy a scientific man putting an accordion under the table, and then letting the medium use one hand to play upon it... Why, in the name of common sense, have it underneath the table?"
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powers before he obtained the results of the experiments. Vanderweyde stated the spring balance used in Crookes' experiment was unreliable as it was easy to manipulate by deception and suggested he should repeat the experiment by using a chemical balance.
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believed they were attached to Home's feet. Home was a sculptor and his studio in Rome contained sculpted hands. Lyons has speculated that he may have substituted the sculptor hands, leaving his real hands free to perform phenomena in the séance room.
1016:, North London in 1871. No plans of the laboratory have been found and there is no contemporary description of it. Crookes wrote the board and spring balance experiment was a success with Home and had proven "beyond doubt" the existence of a "
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and wrote Home was "daily in and out of Crookes's laboratory, and it appears that he closely watched the development of the tests and was prepared in advance." Before the experiments, Crookes was present with Home whilst he changed dress but
3163:"Given the fact that Crookes had vouched for the Fox sisters when others found them fraudulent and testified that Florence Cook was able to materialize a spirit form provides considerable ground to question his judgment in the Home case."
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Home retired due to ill health; the tuberculosis, from which he had suffered for much of his life, was advancing and he said his powers were failing. He died on 21 June 1886 at the age of 53 and was buried in the Russian cemetery of
1119:, Crooke's wife and daughter, his laboratory assistant, and a Mrs Humphrey were all present during the Crookes experiments with Home. However, Barry Wiley has written that when Crookes published his report on the experiments in the
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described him as "one of the most conspicuous and lauded of his type and generation" and "the forerunner of the mediums whose forte is fleecing by presuming on the credulity of the public." Home conducted hundreds of
347:, which was not to her liking, either, but was more in line with her own religion. The house was reportedly disturbed by rappings and knocking similar to those that had occurred two years earlier at the home of the
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building, and hung the rope down unseen to the third floor. During the alleged levitation Home "swung out and in" the room by using a double rope maneuver. Lambert's rope hypothesis was supported by the magician
746:, the French stage magician was refused admission to Home's séances. In opposition to this, spiritualists have said that Houdin was unable to explain the phenomena at a Home séance. Regarding both these claims,
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for lack of scientific controls. In the experiment Home refused for Crookes to be near him and would draw attention to something on the other side of the room, or make conversation for diversionary signals.
234:. Evidence supports the elder Home's illegitimacy, as various payments meant for William were made by the 10th Earl. Elizabeth and William were married when he was 19 years old, and found employment at the
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there was no evidence the accordion played at all, as the keys were not observed to have moved. Podmore suggested the musical sounds could have come from an automatic instrument that Home had concealed.
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alleged that Browning had told him that during the séance he had taken hold of a luminous object that appeared above the edge of the table, which turned out to be Home's naked foot. Later Browning's son
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books that Home was never caught in fraud. However, skeptics have stated that this claim does not hold up to scrutiny as Home was caught utilizing tricks by different witnesses on different occasions.
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or not... it would be obvious that if the keys were not pressed down, it was impossible for the music really to have come from the accordion, and its true source must have been looked for elsewhere."
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Home standing up, so his voice would come from higher in the room. With shoes on his hands, held at face level, the effect would match the descriptions of those who wrote down their experiences.
2259:"Dingwall mentions that Henrietta Ada Ward, the wife of the painter Edward Matthew Ward, said in her memoirs that a lady used to help Home during the séances she attended and "act as a medium."
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have claimed the accordion experiment was not the result of deliberate fraud. This is in opposition to magicians and skeptical researchers who evaluated Crookes' reports from the experiment.
461:, and his doctors recommended recuperation in Europe. His last séance in America was in March 1855, in Hartford, Connecticut, before he travelled to Boston and sailed to England on board the
735:. He demonstrated how he could add two inches to his height by stretching. According to Lyons "it is quite likely that used a similar technique to the one that Willard used decades later".
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five to seven feet above the floor. Crookes wrote "We all saw him rise from the ground slowly to a height of about six inches, remain there for about ten seconds, and then slowly descend."
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that: 'the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture'. Browning gave his unflattering impression of Home in the poem, "Sludge the Medium" (1864). His wife,
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1058:. According to Earwaker "For in truth they are the very opposite of scientific. Even to call them unscientific is not strong enough; clumsy and futile are much nearer the truth."
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in her experiments with Crookes. Wiley noted that "Gimingham had free and open access to Crookes' laboratory and frequently worked there unsupervised with Crookes' full trust."
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Epidemic Delusions: Containing an Exposé of the Superstitions and Frauds which Underlie Some Ancient and Modern Delusions, Including Especial Reference to Modern Spiritualism
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also played an accordion while held with one hand under a table. Slade and Home played the same pieces. They had at one time lived near each other in the U.S.A. The magician
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that Home concealed under his large moustache. Randi writes that one-octave mouth organs were found in Home's belongings after his death. According to Randi, "around 1960",
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to each other and told stories, and made a pact stating that if one or the other were to die, they would try to make contact after death. Home and his aunt soon moved to
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experiment, Home sat at a table, with Crookes and another observer on either side of him, each with a foot on one of Home's feet. Home inserted his hand inside a wire
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and critics claimed that Home had refused an invitation to perform in front of Robert-Houdin. There is, however, not a shred of evidence for either of these claims.
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on his finger tips to tamper with the apparatus which managed to fool Crookes into believing a psychic force was being displayed. Regarding Crookes, the magician
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an experienced chemist was present at a séance whilst Home performed the feat and would have known how to distinguish the difference between coal and platinum.
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said there were many cases on record of Home levitating, but skeptics assert the alleged levitations occurred in darkened conditions susceptible to trickery.
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idea was to fund his work with a legitimate salary by practicing medicine, but he became ill in early 1854, and stopped his studies. Home was diagnosed with
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out of the third storey window of one room, and back in through the window of the adjoining room in front of three witnesses (Adare, Captain Wynne, and
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has pointed out that all three witnesses gave contradictory information about the levitation, even contradicting themselves about specific details:
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Charles Henry Gimingham (1853–1890) who had built the experimental apparatus. Wiley suspected that Gimingham worked as a secret accomplice for
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claimed to have replicated the accordion feat of Home and suggested it was a trick performed by an accomplice playing a hidden accordion.
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weighed six pounds and this was not a mistake, he also stated he had the board for about sixteen years and it was originally cut in a
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stated that Home was caught cheating on a few occasions, but the episodes were never made public, and that the accordion feat was a
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who was a convinced spiritualist attended a séance with Home, but wrote a letter to Elizabeth Browning claiming Home had faked the
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at a height of 35 feet and suggested rather than levitating Home had stepped across a gap of four feet between two iron balconies.
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on his hands. It has been suggested that the "spirit hands" in the séances of Home were made of gloves stuffed with a substance.
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attended a séance on 23, July 1855 in Ealing with the Rymers. In 1895, after the deaths of Robert and Elizabeth, the journalist
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however, who proved to be one of Home's most adamant critics. After attending a séance of Home's, Browning wrote in a letter to
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others saw "a tremulous phosphorescent light gleam over the walls". Home was investigated by numerous people, such as Professor
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faith, which believed that every soul can be saved. Home's aunt resented Wesleyans so much that she forced Home to change to
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in Scotland, as were many of her predecessors, like her great uncle Colin Uruqhart, and her uncle Mr. McKenzie. The gift of
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moving about in the cage (under the dark table). It was probably hooked on to the table." The 19th-century British medium
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has stated that a possible explanation for Home's alleged levitation phenomena was revealed in the twentieth century by
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Spiritualism and the New Psychology: An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge
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also noted that the gap between the two balconies was only four feet making passing between them entirely feasible.
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wrote a science review that heavily criticized the Crookes' experiments for their poor design concluding they were
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wrote that the glowing or light-emitting hands in his séances could easily be explained by the rubbing of oil of
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hands and feet were not controlled and according to Frank Podmore "no precautions were taken against trickery."
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wrote that Home chose his séance sitters and "if test experiments were suggested, he imposed the conditions."
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noted this would not have prevented Home from slipping into his pocket apparatus to cheat on the experiments.
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Modern Spiritualism: A Short Account of its Rise and Progress, with Some Exposures of So-Called Spirit Media
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under his control. It was reported by sitters and Crookes that Home's accordion played only two pieces,
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anything which would either fascinate or frighten you. It is wonderful. I am so glad I have seen it..."
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was caught using a music box in his séances that he had hidden in his trousers. The fraudulent medium
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wrote that other mediums had used a loop of catgut to obtain a similar effect with the accordion.
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powers. Fay later confessed to her fraud and revealed the tricks she had used.
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The First Psychic: The Extraordinary Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard
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The Sorcerer of Kings: The Case of Daniel Dunglas Home and William Crookes
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The Sorcerer of Kings: The Case of Daniel Dunglas Home and William Crookes
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3883:
806:in the house of the solicitor John Snaith Rymer in
164:
112:
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86:
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4385:. Rationalist Association. London: Watts & Co.
4211:(reprint of 1910 ed.). Kessinger Publishing.
3988:
2866:White Marble: The Life and Letters of Hiram Powers
2742:. London: Forgotten Books, 2013 reprint. pp. 164-5
2692:After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
2382:. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company. p. 34
1547:After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
628:return to the ground, and the effect is complete.
596:(ability to see things that are out of view); and
3228:
3226:
2530:. State University of New York Press. pp. 94-96.
404:, the inventor of the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, and
4451:. Journal of the Franklin Institute 92: 423–426.
4425:. Journal of the Franklin Institute 92: 211–214.
3297:. Journal of the Franklin Institute 92: 423–426.
3259:. Journal of the Franklin Institute 92: 211–214.
2176:Een Vreemdelinge in Den Haag, Hella Haasse, 1984
2778:
2776:
2752:
2750:
2748:
1168:him to the chicanery of his psychic subjects."
1147:criticized the Crookes experiments for lack of
210:methods and fraud that Home may have employed.
3484:
3482:
3187:
3185:
1909:. Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan, 1876. Archived from
1097:could not, or would not, resist the influence.
5045:National Spiritualist Association of Churches
4519:
3706:. (New York: Phillips & Hunt. pp. 304–305
3106:(fifth ed.). McFarland. pp. 18–19.
2545:
2543:
2519:
2517:
2515:
2414:
2412:
1076:noted that Crookes was already a believer in
981:Between 1870 and 1873, chemist and physicist
367:The 18-year-old Home stayed with a friend in
8:
4021:. Thomas Y. Crowell Company ASIN: B000O8Z6AC
3967:Experiences in Spiritualism With Mr D D Home
3551:
3549:
2305:Adare "Experiences in Spiritualism" 1976 p83
1891:
1889:
1771:
1769:
1741:
1739:
1500:
1498:
588:(the ability to let spirits audibly speak);
4470:Experiences In Spiritualism with D. D. Home
4326:The Enigma of Daniel Home: Medium Or Fraud?
4251:Heyday of a Wizard: Daniel Home, The Medium
3273:Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism
2932:The Enigma of Daniel Home: Medium or Fraud?
2579:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 153–154.
1414:Experiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Home
1280:exposed how Slade had performed the trick.
448:during the next few months, and settled in
4526:
4512:
4504:
3990:"The psychic cloud: Yankee spirit-rappers"
3687:Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena
1630:
1628:
1618:
1616:
1588:
1586:
1481:. Cambridge University Press. p. 38.
639:'s house interpreted in a lithograph from
504:(who remained unconvinced), the novelists
262:Photograph Portrait of Daniel Dunglas Home
136: 1858–1862)
31:
20:
5055:Spiritualist Association of Great Britain
4294:. The Popular Science Review 10: 356–365.
4187:Mediums of the Nineteenth Century, Part 1
3419:Spiritualism: A Popular History from 1847
3241:. The Popular Science Review 10: 356–365.
3100:Irwin, Harvey J.; Watt, Caroline (2007).
2714:"The Strange Case of Daniel Dunglas Home"
2104:
2102:
1517:Spiritualism: A Popular History from 1847
635:The levitation of Daniel Dunglas Home at
521:. As well as Brewster, fellow scientists
3582:. Herbert B. Turner & Co. p. 374–377
2868:, Sculptor. p. 111 and is stored at the
2556:. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. pp. 157–158.
1980:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 pp70-71
1847:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 pp26-27
1754:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 pp18-19
1529:
1527:
1525:
1170:
696:wrote regarding the alleged levitation:
4486:The Strange Case of Daniel Dunglas Home
4306:. The Popular Science Review 11: 32–42.
3602:. Bruce Publishing Company. pp. 167–187
2065:. Vol. 39. 1863. pp. 186–187.
1442:
1035:tested Home in a series of experiments.
4382:The Follies and Frauds of Spiritualism
3736:A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology
3654:The Follies and Frauds of Spiritualism
3580:The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism
3365:. New Scientist. 16 June. pp. 783-786.
3333:. Cambridge University Press. p. 205.
3153:A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology
3070:The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism
2870:"Smithsonian Archives of American Art"
2846:A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology
415:, Home claims that in August 1852, in
202:, which were attended by many eminent
5070:International Spiritualist Federation
3275:. Cambridge University Press. p. 43.
2911:. Thomas Y. Crowell Co. pp. 174–187.
2678:. Cambridge University Press. p. 42.
2492:The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal
383:guest at the house of Rufus Elmer in
7:
3799:. James Randi Educational Foundation
3509:Spiritualism and its Recent Converts
3072:. Herbert B. Turner & Co. p. 404
2599:. Harvard University Press. p. 161.
2085:. Kessinger Publishing. p. 45.
1874:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 p62
1820:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 p25
1696:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 p17
1643:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 p30
1634:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 p20
1601:Home "Incidents in my Life" 1863 p22
5025:List of Spiritualist organizations
4075:The History of Spiritualism, Vol II
3999:. Atlantic Monthly Press. pp.
3670:Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena
3656:. London: Watts & Co. pp. 40–41
3596:The Accordion Playing of D. D. Home
3495:. Henry Holt and Company. pp. 48–50
3024:. Henry Holt and Company. pp. 40–41
2619:. Dover Publications. pp. 214–215.
2554:Robert Browning: A Life Within Life
2429:. Henry Holt and Company. pp. 55–86
1715:Hoare, Philip (10 September 2005).
1665:. SparTech Software. Archived from
4117:Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism
4051:The History of Spiritualism, Vol I
3778:. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 80.
3217:Mr. Crookes on the 'Psychic' Force
2732:The Empress Eugenie and Her Circle
2644:The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal
2494:. Allen & Unwin. p. 239.
2049:. Vol. 39. 1863. p. 175.
1420:overtones between Adare and Home.
1376:in 1891. The psychical researcher
14:
4333:D. D. Home and the Physical World
3469:. Prometheus Books. pp. 156–157.
3103:An Introduction to Parapsychology
2999:Mediums of the Nineteenth Century
2646:. Prometheus Books. pp. 325-328.
2350:. Skeptical inquirer 13: 277–288.
2285:Mediums of the Nineteenth Century
1573:. Prometheus Books. pp. 101-126.
1287:Sketch showing how Home held the
324:three days before Home's vision.
3511:. Quarterly Review 131: 301–353.
3421:. Dodd, Mead and Company. p. 140
3001:. Kessinger Publishing. p. 233.
2763:. Prometheus Books. pp. 99-101.
2469:. Thomas Y. Crowell Co. p. 185.
2287:, Part 1 University Books p. 254
2160:. Kessinger Publishing. p. 254.
1315:(1972) suggested that a loop of
1128:Notes of séances with D. D. Home
898:, a skeptic of Home's mediumship
187:levitate to a variety of heights
4303:Psychic Force and Psychic Media
4261:Mediums, Mystics and the Occult
3453:. Grant Richards, London. p. 87
3179:. Skeptical Inquirer 24: 36–38.
2366:. London: Watts & CO. p. 49
841:Writing in the journal for the
419:, Connecticut, at the house of
153:
133:
4410:Revelations of a Spirit Medium
4291:Mr. Crookes' New Psychic Force
4017:Christopher, Milbourne (1971)
3355:Scientists and the Supernormal
3238:Mr. Crookes' New Psychic Force
3191:William Hodson Brock. (2008).
2423:Levitation and the Fire Ordeal
1393:. His Best Man was the writer
1355:Society for Psychical Research
1245:Both contain only one-octave.
855:, a physician in the court of
844:Society for Psychical Research
1:
5050:Spiritualists' National Union
4331:Guy William Lambert. (1976).
4114:Home, Daniel Dunglas (2007).
4099:. Adamant Media Corporation.
4093:Home, Daniel Dunglas (2005).
2809:. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 92.
2449:that he was rising, and then
977:William Crookes investigation
733:Society of American Magicians
185:with the reported ability to
5040:London Spiritualist Alliance
4034:Quarterly Journal of Science
3738:. Prometheus Books. p. 189.
3331:A Magician Among the Spirits
3155:. Prometheus Books. p. 189.
2848:. Prometheus Books. p. 255.
2676:A Magician Among the Spirits
2398:. Prometheus Books. p. 168.
2115:"Home, Daniel Dunglas"
1478:A Magician Among the Spirits
1298:suggested a false keyboard:
1122:Quarterly Journal of Science
799:for each of his phenomena."
275:, to the west of Edinburgh.
5392:Entertainers from Edinburgh
4445:P. H. Vanderweyde. (1871).
4347:. Frederick Warne & Co.
4318:. Chicago: Laird & Lee.
4239:. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
3833:. Prometheus Books. p. 96.
3291:P. H. Vanderweyde. (1871).
2251:. Prometheus Books. p. 85.
2158:Mediums of the 19th Century
1539:Some Thoughts on D. D. Home
1133:Crookes' assistant was the
481:Home's name was originally
432:William Makepeace Thackeray
5413:
5397:Scottish spiritual mediums
4165:Cambridge University Press
3760:Spiritism and Common Sense
3505:William Benjamin Carpenter
2348:The Levitation of the Lore
2190:. McFarland. p. 145.
2152:William Crookes quoted in
1210:William Benjamin Carpenter
1196:that was pushed under the
1050:world." In the same year,
875:The neoclassical sculptor
645:Les Mystères de la science
541:Elizabeth Barrett Browning
519:James John Garth Wilkinson
385:Springfield, Massachusetts
5060:Spiritual church movement
4397:. Henry Holt and Company.
4359:. London: Watts & Co.
4282:. Grant Richards, London.
4157:Oppenheim, Janet (1988).
3919:Christiansen (2000) p.156
3907:Christiansen (2000) p.154
3898:Christiansen (2000) p.147
3889:Christiansen (2000) p.142
3849:J. M. Robertson. (1891).
2909:ESP, Seers & Psychics
2467:ESP, Seers & Psychics
1535:Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo
1509:A Sitting With D. D. Home
1248:The psychical researcher
849:Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo
744:Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
30:
4454:Horace Wyndham. (1937).
4189:. Kessinger Publishing.
4078:. New York: G.H. Doran.
4054:. New York: G.H. Doran.
3928:Barry H. Wiley. (2012).
3555:Barry H. Wiley. (2012).
3394:Barry H. Wiley. (2012).
3374:Barry H. Wiley. (2012).
3306:Barry H. Wiley. (2012).
3134:Hall, Trevor H. (1963).
2973:Barry H. Wiley. (2012).
2888:. Kessinger Publishing.
2269:Memories of Ninety Years
2062:The North British review
2046:The North British review
1717:"A talent for ectoplasm"
1454:. Abacus. p. xiii.
1252:and spiritualism expert
1243:The Last Rose of Summer.
887:Speculations on trickery
810:in July 1855, a sitter (
569:. He also performed for
565:to perform a séance for
510:Thomas Adolphus Trollope
506:Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
369:Willimantic, Connecticut
5326:C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
5191:Carlos María de Heredia
3948:Lamont, 2005 p. 222–223
3756:Carlos María de Heredia
3643:. Watts & Co. p. 81
3600:Church and Spiritualism
3195:. Ashgate. pp. 45–148.
2807:Beware Familiar Spirits
2121:Encyclopædia Britannica
2079:Podmore, Frank (2003).
1549:. Oxford. pp. 373-374.
1475:Houdini, Harry (2011).
1351:William Lindsay Gresham
1328:Carlos María de Heredia
786:It is often claimed in
465:, at the end of March.
5256:Charles Arthur Mercier
5065:Arthur Findlay College
4904:William Stainton Moses
4869:Gladys Osborne Leonard
4456:Mr. Sludge, the Medium
4394:The Newer Spiritualism
4209:The Newer Spiritualism
3996:The Victorian Visitors
3851:A Spiritualistic Farce
3493:The Newer Spiritualism
3435:The Newer Spiritualism
3022:The Newer Spiritualism
2782:Peter Lamont. (2005).
2720:, Chapter 8 of (1904)
2615:Andrew Neher. (2011).
2595:Simon During. (2004).
2427:The Newer Spiritualism
2321:. Panther. pp. 192–193
1450:Lamont, Peter (2005).
1370:
1347:one-octave mouth organ
1305:
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925:, or some glow from a
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851:described a letter by
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582:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
478:
397:Springfield Republican
364:
329:Waterford, Connecticut
288:
263:
5216:Stanley LeFevre Krebs
5121:Milbourne Christopher
5030:Spiritualist churches
4899:Lorin Morgan-Richards
4894:William Usborne Moore
4563:Cross-Correspondences
4379:Walter Mann. (1919).
4257:Milbourne Christopher
4249:Jean Burton. (1944).
3856:The National Reformer
3652:Walter Mann. (1919).
3398:. McFarland. p. 190.
2905:Milbourne Christopher
2786:. Abacus. pp. 90-94.
2550:Donald Serrell Thomas
2463:Milbourne Christopher
2330:F. B. Smith. (1986).
1365:
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908:Milbourne Christopher
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740:Donald Serrell Thomas
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393:William Cullen Bryant
389:New York Evening Post
362:
286:
261:
5231:John Nevil Maskelyne
5131:Edmund Smith Conklin
4495:Historical Mysteries
4435:. Prometheus Books.
4339:John Nevil Maskelyne
4096:Incidents in My Life
3985:Christiansen, Rupert
3932:. McFarland. p. 24.
3559:. McFarland. p. 30.
3521:John Nevil Maskelyne
3378:. McFarland. p. 28.
3361:17 July 2023 at the
3310:. McFarland. p. 36.
2977:. McFarland. p. 26.
2957:. Prometheus Books.
2934:. Prometheus Books.
2738:4 April 2016 at the
1942:Incidents in my Life
1663:"Altered Dimensions"
1505:Frederick Merrifield
1230:John Nevil Maskelyne
1184:Accordion experiment
1175:Home performing the
1022:scientific community
812:Frederick Merrifield
772:Allegations of fraud
653:4th Earl of Dunraven
413:Incidents in My Life
373:Lebanon, Connecticut
301:Norwich, Connecticut
226:was often seen as a
146:Julie de Gloumeline
123:Alexandria de Kroll
5306:Julien J. Proskauer
5096:George Miller Beard
5091:John Henry Anderson
4829:Daniel Dunglas Home
4546:History and beliefs
4328:. Prometheus Books.
4120:. Cosimo Classics.
4070:Doyle, Arthur Conan
4046:Doyle, Arthur Conan
3868:Lamont, 2005 p. 302
3576:Hereward Carrington
3066:Hereward Carrington
2640:Daniel Dunglas Home
2524:Sherrie Lynne Lyons
2186:Amy Lehman (2009).
2016:Lamont 2005 pp43–44
1998:Lamont 2005 pp36–37
1962:Lamont 2005 pp34-35
1931:Lamont 2005 pp31-33
1883:Lamont 2005 pp30-31
1856:Lamont 2005 pp29-30
1838:Lamont 2005 pp28-29
1784:Lamont 2005 pp16-17
1669:on 27 December 2007
1431:St. Germain-en-Laye
1250:Hereward Carrington
1149:scientific controls
955:Hereward Carrington
935:Sherrie Lynne Lyons
827:Frederick Greenwood
729:Clarence E. Willard
725:Sherrie Lynne Lyons
625:Balducci levitation
615:Alleged levitations
554:claimed Home could
487:Daniel Dunglas Home
444:, Springfield, and
175:Daniel Dunglas Home
25:Daniel Dunglas Home
5346:Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
5181:William A. Hammond
4984:Stanisława Tomczyk
4974:Emanuel Swedenborg
4924:Ethel Post-Parrish
4889:Francis Ward Monck
4734:Arthur Conan Doyle
4608:Spirit photography
4263:. Thomas Crowell.
4253:. Alfred A. Knopf.
3594:. (1933). Chapter
2886:Newer Spiritualism
2694:. Oxford. p. 373.
2421:. (1910). Chapter
2376:Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
2082:Newer Spiritualism
1913:on 2 November 2007
1292:
1270:Francis Ward Monck
1181:
1043:in an article for
1037:
900:
784:
767:Critical reception
742:has asserted that
723:Science historian
718:Arthur Conan Doyle
707:Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
649:
609:Henrietta Ada Ward
502:Sir David Brewster
479:
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236:Balerno paper mill
5364:
5363:
5351:Lyttelton Winslow
5316:Donovan Rawcliffe
5281:E. Clephan Palmer
5251:Georgess McHargue
5141:Stuart Cumberland
5116:William Carpenter
5035:Spiritist centres
4994:George Valiantine
4914:Eusapia Palladino
4884:Carmine Mirabelli
4844:Swami Laura Horos
4794:Kathleen Goligher
4719:Geraldine Cummins
4674:Stephen E. Braude
4613:Spirit possession
4598:Spiritual healing
4558:Automatic writing
4363:Georgess McHargue
4218:978-0-7661-6336-2
4196:978-0-7661-2853-8
4174:978-0-521-34767-9
4127:978-1-60206-817-9
4106:978-1-4021-5929-9
3976:978-0-405-07937-5
3817:Lamont 2005 p 302
3720:The Table-Rappers
3700:Amos Norton Craft
3475:978-0-87975-575-1
3281:978-1-108-04413-4
3113:978-0-7864-3059-8
3038:The Table-Rappers
2917:978-0-690-26815-7
2585:978-1-107-01933-1
2475:978-0-690-26815-7
2396:Psychic Paradoxes
2197:978-0-7864-3479-4
2092:978-0-7661-6336-2
1652:Lamont 2005 pp6-7
1555:978-0-19-509295-0
1488:978-1-108-02748-9
1313:The Table-Rappers
1296:Amos Norton Craft
1074:P. H. Vanderweyde
995:Eusapia Palladino
345:Congregationalist
232:10th Earl of Home
172:
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105:Years active
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5296:Massimo Polidoro
5246:Henry C. McComas
5151:Joseph Dunninger
4929:James Van Praagh
4819:Gordon Higginson
4759:William Eglinton
4603:Spirit obsession
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4040:on 21 April 2009
4036:, archived from
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5009:Chico Xavier
4969:Doris Stokes
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5311:James Randi
5301:Harry Price
5276:Joe Nickell
5261:Albert Moll
5226:David Marks
5156:Henry Evans
5004:Etta Wriedt
4999:Jack Webber
4964:Henry Slade
4949:William Roy
4814:Alec Harris
4809:Robert Hare
4779:Arthur Ford
4769:Fox sisters
4764:Colin Evans
4754:John Edward
4654:Dan Aykroyd
4490:Andrew Lang
4481:James Randi
4401:Harry Price
4310:Henry Evans
3621:Henry Evans
3050:Henry Evans
2928:Trevor Hall
2826:Henry Evans
2718:Andrew Lang
2686:. See also
2315:John Sladek
1381:duplicate.
1343:James Randi
1307:Researcher
1294:The writer
1274:Henry Slade
1261:Henry Evans
1111:noted that
1068:lumber yard
951:Henry Evans
914:(1984) and
883:movements.
853:Dr. Barthez
781:Dr. Barthez
750:has noted:
684:Westminster
668:John Sladek
637:Ward Cheney
594:clairvoyant
495:Robert Owen
483:Daniel Home
437:Vanity Fair
428:Bryant Park
421:Ward Cheney
402:Robert Hare
377:New England
349:Fox sisters
297:Greeneville
91:clairvoyant
5371:Categories
5341:Amy Tanner
5196:Carl Hertz
4934:Bert Reese
4849:Cecil Husk
4799:Rita Goold
4583:Mediumship
4431:. (1993).
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