Margery The Medium
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Margery The Medium
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Author : James Malcolm Bird
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Margery The Medium written by James Malcolm Bird and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Parapsychology categories.
Houdini Exposes The Tricks Used By The Boston Medium Margery To Win The 2500 Prize Offered By The Scientific American
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Author : Harry Houdini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
Houdini Exposes The Tricks Used By The Boston Medium Margery To Win The 2500 Prize Offered By The Scientific American written by Harry Houdini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Magic tricks categories.
The Medium Who Baffled Houdini
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Author : Elaine M. Kuzmeskus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-04
The Medium Who Baffled Houdini written by Elaine M. Kuzmeskus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Houdini the Magician Stumped," proclaimed the Boston Herald in 1924. Who was this medium who baffled Houdini? None other than Margery Crandon, the wife of a prominent Boston surgeon. "Margery the Medium" made headlines throughout the 1920s. She captivated not only Harvard professors, but the editors of Scientific American with her amazing physical mediumship. Margery was very much a woman of her time- the Roaring Twenties. By the time the Twenties were in full swing, Margery and her second husband Dr. Le Roi Crandon became interested in psychic phenomena. In May of 1923, Dr. Crandon invited two couples to join them in a table-tilting seance. During the evening, he discovered that his wife had a genuine gift for communicating with the spirits. Within months, Margery produced psychic music, direct voice, trumpet seance, and even apports. She not only fascinated her husband, but the scientific community in the United States and England. While Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle championed Margery's mediumship, Harry Houdini denounced her as a fraud. Was Margery Crandon too good to be true or was she the last of the great physical mediums?"
Margery The Medium Oclc 224964419
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Author : J. Malcolm Bird
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Margery The Medium Oclc 224964419 written by J. Malcolm Bird and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
The Witch Of Lime Street
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Author : David Jaher
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The Witch Of Lime Street written by David Jaher and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish-flu epidemic. A desperate search for reunion with dead loved ones precipitated a tidal wave of self-proclaimed psychics—and, as reputable media sought stories on occult phenomena, mediums became celebrities. Against this backdrop, in 1924, the pretty wife of a distinguished Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was none other than Sherlock Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American and offering a large cash prize to the first medium declared authentic by its impressive five-man investigative committee. Admired for both her exceptional charm and her dazzling effects, Margery was the best hope for the psychic practice to be empirically verified. Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges. There was only one left to convince...the acclaimed escape artist, Harry Houdini. David Jaher's extraordinary debut culminates in the showdown between Houdini, a relentless unmasker of charlatans, and Margery, the nation's most credible spirit medium. The Witch of Lime Street, the first book to capture their electric public rivalry and the competition that brought them into each other’s orbit, returns us to an oft-mythologized era to deepen our understanding of its history, all while igniting our imagination and engaging with the timeless question: Is there life after death?
Religious Scandals
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Author : Judith M. Buddenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-09-03
Religious Scandals written by Judith M. Buddenbaum and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-03 with Social Science categories.
This volume looks at headline-grabbing scandals involving American religious figures from the 19th century to the present, showing how the media and society in general reacted to these controversies. Religious Scandals brings together real-life controversies involving men and women of faith, from the media frenzy over the 1811 New York blasphemy case of People v. Ruggles that shaped American law for well over 100 years to the 2008 government raid on the fundamentalist Mormon Yearning for Zion community in Texas. Religious Scandals focuses on two types of subjects: religious figures whose lapses put them at the center of scandals involving sex, money, or crime; and those who scandalized their fellow citizens by acting out according to their own religious beliefs. Together, these stories—some familiar, some little known—offer a fascinating portrait of American religious culture, as well insights into the role of the media in religious scandals, constitutional protections of religious freedom, and the overriding issue of public curiosity versus individual privacy.
Science Of The Seance
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Author : Beth A. Robertson
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2016-11-28
Science Of The Seance written by Beth A. Robertson and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-28 with Science categories.
Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project. Her findings cast new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform gendered norms in the 1920s and ’30s. She reveals a world inhabited, on one side, by psychical researchers who represented themselves as masters of the senses, untainted by the effeminized subjectivity of the body and, on the other, by mediums and ghostly subjects who could and did challenge the researchers’ exclusive claims to scientific expertise and authority.
The Perfect Medium
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Author : Clément Chéroux
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
The Perfect Medium written by Clément Chéroux and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Photography categories.
In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published. The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production. They document in unexpected ways a period when developing photographic technology merged with a popular obsession with the occult to create a new genre of haunting experimental photographs.
A Magician Among The Spirits
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Author : Harry Houdini
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-21
A Magician Among The Spirits written by Harry Houdini and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Fiction categories.
This is a book about spiritualism written by a self-professed sceptic. In the opening sentence of his preface, Houdini says," Gladly would I embrace Spiritualism if it could prove its claims, but I am not willing to be deluded by .....so-called psychics" He discusses the origins of spiritualism, and describes some of its earliest protagonists. The last chapter is called Magicians as Detectors of Fraud and lays the final groundwork for his conclusion.
Margery
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Author : Thomas R. Tietze
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1973
Margery written by Thomas R. Tietze and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Biography & Autobiography categories.