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
KANE (Dr. Elisha Kent)
--First meeting with Maggie Fox, 209.
--Influence upon her life, 129.
--Effect of his death on her career, 230, 231.
--Character of his interest in her, 213.
--Gloomy foresight, 213.
--Efforts to save her from a life of fraud, &c., 129, 228.
--Characterizes the deceit and hypocrisy of "mediumship," 214, 215, 216,
228.
--Never believed in a single pretense of Spiritualism, 217, 232.
--Knew from their first acquaintance that the "rappings" were
fraudulent, 232.
--Repeatedly exacts her promise not to have anything more to do with
Spiritualism, 223, 226.
--Solicitude lest she return to the practice of Spiritualism, 228.
--Fear lest the source of the "rappings" be discovered, 226.
--Places her at school, 226.
--Engagement broken off and renewed, 227.
--Secret marriage with her, 229.
--Death at Havana, 229.
KNEES
--Seized by investigators to detect movement while "rappings" being
produced, 143.
--When so seized, sounds arrested, and when released, renewed, 143.
LEE (Dr. Charles A.), one of the Buffalo investigators, 132.
LETTER of Mrs. Kane first publicly denouncing Spiritualism, 30.
LICENTIOUSNESS under the cloak of Spiritualism, 237, 238.
"MEDIUMS" (Well-known)
--How they received the exposé, 45, 46.
"MEDIUMSHIP"
--Mrs. Kane driven back to it, 37.
MESSAGES (Written)
--How produced by Mrs. Kane, 172, 196.
MESSAGES ("Spirit")
--Internal evidence sufficient to prove their falsity, 162.
MERCENARY campaign
--Begins in Rochester, 121, 126.
--Tour of principal cities, 212, 222.
MOVEMENT of knees of "medium" noted by Dr. Lee while "raps" were heard,
143.
ORIGIN of the fraud, 81, 83, 87, 92.
PERSECUTION of Mrs. Catherine Fox Jencken and her children by
spiritualistic enemies, 60.
PROPHECY of Dr. Kane concerning the future of Maggie Fox, 213.
PROMISES of Maggie Fox to Dr. Kane never to "rap" any more, 223, 226.
PRESIDENT Pierce's wife and Maggie Fox, 223.
PROFESSION of spiritualistic belief
--Mrs. Kane expressly disclaims it, 181, 234.
"RAPS"
--Failure to "throw" them to different parts of a room, 184.
--Always heard near the spot where "medium" is stationed, 136, 172, 173.
--Effort of the will in producing them apparent, 136.
--Muscular contractions their possible cause, 137.
--Not produced while "mediums" in constrained position, 142.
--Not produced while feet of "mediums" are prevented from touching
sonorous substances, 185.
--Vibrations in foot of Mrs. Kane, felt by Mr. Sellers of the "Seybert
Commission," 194.
--Their physiological origin, 202, 203.
REPENTANCE
--Mrs. Catherine Fox Jencken, 58, 59.
--Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane, 233.
REPORTS on investigations of "rappings," 134, 141, 149, 173.
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