The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox SistersDavenport, Reuben Briggs
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The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters
Davenport, Reuben Briggs
Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893; Jencken, Catherine Fox, 1836-1892; Mediums -- New York (State) -- Rochester; Spiritualism
FRAUD.
--Dante's image of, 17.
--Origin of the, 81.
--Development of the, 105.
--Various forms of the, 201.
FRAUDULENT
--The "mediumship" of Mrs. Jencken's baby, "Ferdie," 160.
GARBLED testimony, 90, 94.
"GOD has not ordered it," 25, 37.
GOWNS (Long) put on the younger Fox girls on their first public
appearance, to conceal manner of producing "raps," 123.
GREELEY (Horace)
--Aids Katie, 19, 58, 129.
--Influence upon her life, 129.
GUERNILLAS (The)
--Exposure of Spiritualism, 199.
"HERALD" (The N. Y.), 25, 28, 29, 32, 39, 42, 46, 62.
HISTORY of the "rappings," 79.
HARVARD professors investigate Spiritualism, 147.
HUMBUG (Spiritualism a,) according to Mrs. Kate Fox Jencken, 57.
HYDESVILLE, N. Y.
--When mysterious sounds were first heard in John D. Fox's house, 81.
--Digging in the creek, 95.
--Bones of a horse found, 118.
--Digging in the cellar, 117.
--Alleged finding of human bones, unconfirmed by any evidence, 117.
--House said to be haunted--an afterthought, 101.
--The "spirits" when asked tentatively say a murder was committed in the
house and mention the name of the murderer, 119.
HYPOCRISY of professional spiritualists, 165.
--Dr. Kane characterizes, 214, 215.
INQUISITIVENESS as to spiritualistic methods prevents the "spirits" from
acting, 146.
INSULATION
--Experiments with Mrs. Kane while standing on glass tumblers, 185.
--The results negative, 188.
--Partial success when placed near a sideboard and wall, 189, 192.
INVESTIGATION
--First farcical. 122, 124.
--By the "Buffalo doctors," 131, 134.
--By "Buffalo doctors" again, 131.
--By "Seybert Commission," 170.
--By Harvard professors and others, 147.
JENCKEN (Mrs. Catherine Fox) denounces Spiritualism, 62, 64.
JOINTS of the fingers.
--Children try to imitate sounds with them, 87.
JOINT of the knee used in the production of "raps," 133.
JOINTS of the toes used in producing the famous "rappings" of the Fox
sisters, 139, 145.
JUGGLERY
--Spiritualists attribute it to "mediumship," 198.
--Confess that "spiritualistic" effects are produced in the same way,
199.
--Older and more skillful than Spiritualism so-called, 150, 154.
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