mv: ‘./input-file.zip’ and ‘./input-file.zip’ are the same file Creating study carrel named subject-spiritualism-gutenberg Initializing database Unzipping Archive: input-file.zip creating: ./tmp/input/input-file/ inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/19376.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/19342.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/21041.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/30403.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/30540.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/22593.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/24220.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/24359.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/14675.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1638.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/4251.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/439.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/563.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/11950.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/12353.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/13319.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/36009.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/35681.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/34475.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/34988.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/36312.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/36512.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/37917.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/39212.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/39279.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/36908.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/39718.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/33506.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/34250.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/36730.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/51743.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/42318.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/43346.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/43237.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/44349.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/56713.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/61807.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/metadata.csv caution: excluded filename not matched: *MACOSX* === DIRECTORIES: ./tmp/input === DIRECTORY: ./tmp/input/input-file === metadata file: ./tmp/input/input-file/metadata.csv === found metadata file === updating bibliographic database Building study carrel named subject-spiritualism-gutenberg FILE: cache/30403.txt OUTPUT: txt/30403.txt FILE: cache/19376.txt OUTPUT: txt/19376.txt FILE: cache/22593.txt OUTPUT: txt/22593.txt FILE: cache/19342.txt OUTPUT: txt/19342.txt FILE: cache/14675.txt OUTPUT: txt/14675.txt FILE: cache/21041.txt OUTPUT: txt/21041.txt FILE: cache/24220.txt OUTPUT: txt/24220.txt FILE: cache/563.txt OUTPUT: txt/563.txt FILE: cache/439.txt OUTPUT: txt/439.txt FILE: cache/36009.txt OUTPUT: txt/36009.txt FILE: cache/30540.txt OUTPUT: txt/30540.txt FILE: cache/4251.txt OUTPUT: txt/4251.txt FILE: cache/35681.txt OUTPUT: txt/35681.txt FILE: cache/36512.txt OUTPUT: txt/36512.txt FILE: cache/34250.txt OUTPUT: txt/34250.txt FILE: cache/36312.txt OUTPUT: txt/36312.txt FILE: cache/33506.txt OUTPUT: txt/33506.txt FILE: cache/34475.txt OUTPUT: txt/34475.txt FILE: cache/36730.txt OUTPUT: txt/36730.txt FILE: cache/61807.txt OUTPUT: txt/61807.txt FILE: cache/36908.txt OUTPUT: txt/36908.txt FILE: cache/1638.txt OUTPUT: txt/1638.txt FILE: cache/42318.txt OUTPUT: txt/42318.txt FILE: cache/44349.txt OUTPUT: txt/44349.txt FILE: cache/12353.txt OUTPUT: txt/12353.txt FILE: cache/13319.txt OUTPUT: txt/13319.txt FILE: cache/34988.txt OUTPUT: txt/34988.txt FILE: cache/43346.txt OUTPUT: txt/43346.txt FILE: cache/24359.txt OUTPUT: txt/24359.txt FILE: cache/11950.txt OUTPUT: txt/11950.txt FILE: cache/39718.txt OUTPUT: txt/39718.txt FILE: cache/37917.txt OUTPUT: txt/37917.txt FILE: cache/39212.txt OUTPUT: txt/39212.txt FILE: cache/39279.txt OUTPUT: txt/39279.txt FILE: cache/56713.txt OUTPUT: txt/56713.txt FILE: cache/43237.txt OUTPUT: txt/43237.txt FILE: cache/51743.txt OUTPUT: txt/51743.txt 24220 txt/../ent/24220.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 24220 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Tyranny of the Dark date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24220.txt cache: ./cache/24220.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24220.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 24220 txt/../wrd/24220.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 24220 txt/../pos/24220.pos 30403 txt/../pos/30403.pos 30403 txt/../wrd/30403.wrd 30403 txt/../ent/30403.ent 1638 txt/../pos/1638.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 30403 author: Todd, Thomas Olman title: Hydesville The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30403.txt cache: ./cache/30403.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'30403.txt' 1638 txt/../wrd/1638.wrd 563 txt/../wrd/563.wrd 563 txt/../pos/563.pos 34475 txt/../wrd/34475.wrd 35681 txt/../pos/35681.pos 35681 txt/../wrd/35681.wrd 439 txt/../pos/439.pos 1638 txt/../ent/1638.ent 34475 txt/../pos/34475.pos 34475 txt/../ent/34475.ent 19342 txt/../wrd/19342.wrd 19342 txt/../pos/19342.pos 563 txt/../ent/563.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1638 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The New Revelation date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1638.txt cache: ./cache/1638.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1638.txt' 439 txt/../wrd/439.wrd 35681 txt/../ent/35681.ent 439 txt/../ent/439.ent 30540 txt/../pos/30540.pos 19342 txt/../ent/19342.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 563 author: Kennon, J. L. title: The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/563.txt cache: ./cache/563.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'563.txt' 30540 txt/../wrd/30540.wrd 19376 txt/../pos/19376.pos 19376 txt/../wrd/19376.wrd 30540 txt/../ent/30540.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 439 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Vital Message date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/439.txt cache: ./cache/439.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'439.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35681 author: Grierson, Francis title: Psycho-Phone Messages date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35681.txt cache: ./cache/35681.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'35681.txt' 36512 txt/../pos/36512.pos 36512 txt/../wrd/36512.wrd 13319 txt/../wrd/13319.wrd 36512 txt/../ent/36512.ent 14675 txt/../pos/14675.pos 19376 txt/../ent/19376.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 19342 author: Alpheus, A. title: Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19342.txt cache: ./cache/19342.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'19342.txt' 36908 txt/../wrd/36908.wrd 36908 txt/../pos/36908.pos 22593 txt/../pos/22593.pos 22593 txt/../wrd/22593.wrd 14675 txt/../wrd/14675.wrd 13319 txt/../pos/13319.pos 14675 txt/../ent/14675.ent 33506 txt/../pos/33506.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 30540 author: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart title: The Gates Between date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30540.txt cache: ./cache/30540.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'30540.txt' 21041 txt/../pos/21041.pos 36908 txt/../ent/36908.ent 36009 txt/../pos/36009.pos 21041 txt/../wrd/21041.wrd 33506 txt/../wrd/33506.wrd 22593 txt/../ent/22593.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 13319 author: Belasco, David title: The Return of Peter Grimm date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13319.txt cache: ./cache/13319.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'13319.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34475 author: Brackett, Edward Augustus title: Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34475.txt cache: ./cache/34475.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'34475.txt' 61807 txt/../wrd/61807.wrd 61807 txt/../pos/61807.pos 36009 txt/../wrd/36009.wrd 21041 txt/../ent/21041.ent 34988 txt/../pos/34988.pos 13319 txt/../ent/13319.ent 33506 txt/../ent/33506.ent 4251 txt/../pos/4251.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 36512 author: Cruikshank, George title: Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36512.txt cache: ./cache/36512.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'36512.txt' 36009 txt/../ent/36009.ent 34988 txt/../wrd/34988.wrd 34250 txt/../pos/34250.pos 42318 txt/../pos/42318.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 19376 author: Sage, Michael title: Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19376.txt cache: ./cache/19376.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'19376.txt' 34250 txt/../wrd/34250.wrd 42318 txt/../wrd/42318.wrd 61807 txt/../ent/61807.ent 43346 txt/../pos/43346.pos 43346 txt/../wrd/43346.wrd 4251 txt/../wrd/4251.wrd 36312 txt/../pos/36312.pos 42318 txt/../ent/42318.ent 24359 txt/../pos/24359.pos 36312 txt/../wrd/36312.wrd 36730 txt/../wrd/36730.wrd 36730 txt/../pos/36730.pos 24359 txt/../wrd/24359.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 44349 txt/../pos/44349.pos 34988 txt/../ent/34988.ent 44349 txt/../wrd/44349.wrd 11950 txt/../pos/11950.pos 43237 txt/../pos/43237.pos 51743 txt/../pos/51743.pos 34250 txt/../ent/34250.ent 43346 txt/../ent/43346.ent 4251 txt/../ent/4251.ent 39212 txt/../pos/39212.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 36908 author: Culpin, Millais title: Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36908.txt cache: ./cache/36908.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'36908.txt' 36730 txt/../ent/36730.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 22593 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Shadow World date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22593.txt cache: ./cache/22593.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 24 resourceName b'22593.txt' 51743 txt/../wrd/51743.wrd 24359 txt/../ent/24359.ent 11950 txt/../wrd/11950.wrd 43237 txt/../wrd/43237.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 14675 author: Smolnikar, Andrew B. (Andreas Bernardus) title: Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Most important developments regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppresive [sic] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole globe date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14675.txt cache: ./cache/14675.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'14675.txt' 39212 txt/../wrd/39212.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 36009 author: nan title: A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36009.txt cache: ./cache/36009.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'36009.txt' 12353 txt/../pos/12353.pos 36312 txt/../ent/36312.ent 12353 txt/../wrd/12353.wrd 39718 txt/../pos/39718.pos 44349 txt/../ent/44349.ent 39718 txt/../wrd/39718.wrd 43237 txt/../ent/43237.ent 56713 txt/../pos/56713.pos 39279 txt/../wrd/39279.wrd 37917 txt/../pos/37917.pos 39279 txt/../pos/39279.pos 56713 txt/../wrd/56713.wrd 51743 txt/../ent/51743.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 21041 author: Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine) title: Seen and Unseen date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21041.txt cache: ./cache/21041.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'21041.txt' 37917 txt/../wrd/37917.wrd 39212 txt/../ent/39212.ent 12353 txt/../ent/12353.ent 11950 txt/../ent/11950.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 33506 author: Davenport, Reuben Briggs title: The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33506.txt cache: ./cache/33506.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'33506.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11950 author: University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism title: Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11950.txt cache: ./cache/11950.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'11950.txt' 39718 txt/../ent/39718.ent 39279 txt/../ent/39279.ent 37917 txt/../ent/37917.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 61807 author: Page, Charles Grafton title: Psychomancy: Spirit-Rappings and Table-Tippings Exposed date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/61807.txt cache: ./cache/61807.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'61807.txt' 56713 txt/../ent/56713.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 42318 author: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge's Dream date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42318.txt cache: ./cache/42318.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'42318.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34250 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Victor Ollnee's Discipline date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34250.txt cache: ./cache/34250.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'34250.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43346 author: nan title: The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2) Being Facts, Records, and Traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43346.txt cache: ./cache/43346.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'43346.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34988 author: Hooker, Brian title: The Professor's Mystery date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34988.txt cache: ./cache/34988.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'34988.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 24359 author: Belasco, David title: The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24359.txt cache: ./cache/24359.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24359.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 51743 author: McCabe, Joseph title: Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? 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Doyle and Others Drastically Examined date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/51743.txt cache: ./cache/51743.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'51743.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39212 author: Marryat, Florence title: There is No Death date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39212.txt cache: ./cache/39212.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'39212.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36730 author: Willson, Beckles title: Occultism and Common-Sense date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36730.txt cache: ./cache/36730.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'36730.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43237 author: Emmons, Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) title: The Spirit Land date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43237.txt cache: ./cache/43237.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'43237.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44349 author: Evans, Henry Ridgely title: Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44349.txt cache: ./cache/44349.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'44349.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4251 author: Corelli, Marie title: The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4251.txt cache: ./cache/4251.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'4251.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12353 author: Lang, Andrew title: The Making of Religion date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12353.txt cache: ./cache/12353.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'12353.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39718 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Wanderings of a Spiritualist date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39718.txt cache: ./cache/39718.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'39718.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36312 author: Putnam, Allen title: Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36312.txt cache: ./cache/36312.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'36312.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 37917 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: Across the Stream date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/37917.txt cache: ./cache/37917.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'37917.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 56713 author: Johnson, G. Lindsay (George Lindsay) title: The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/56713.txt cache: ./cache/56713.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 10 resourceName b'56713.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39279 author: Flammarion, Camille title: Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39279.txt cache: ./cache/39279.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 13 resourceName b'39279.txt' Done mapping. Reducing subject-spiritualism-gutenberg === reduce.pl bib === id = 30403 author = Todd, Thomas Olman title = Hydesville The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10126 sentences = 500 flesch = 71 summary = Hydesville, in the house of the Fox Family, are those by which Modern Mrs. Britten and Mr. Owen were personally acquainted with the Fox family the Spiritual Movement and the history of the poor Fox Family and their The family of Mr. and Mrs. Fox consisted of six children, but at the time of the manifestations the house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Fox house before the Fox family came to live there. investigations, a pedlar called at the house one afternoon whom Mrs. Bell seemed to recognise as an acquaintance. the Bell family, the sounds continued to be heard, not only by Lucretia From the time the Fox family entered the house at Hydesville, about continued to ask it to rap the ages of different persons--naming constantly on the Fox family to enquire if their spirit friends had have caused the rappings first heard by the Fox sisters in 1848 has been cache = ./cache/30403.txt txt = ./txt/30403.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19342 author = Alpheus, A. title = Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 34332 sentences = 1720 flesch = 68 summary = CHAPTER IV--How the subject feels under hypnotization--Dr. Cocke's evidence that persons in the hypnotic state have (sometimes) remarkable geniuses would be good hypnotic subjects), still such persons have not a magnet and electricity may affect persons in the hypnotic state, and "The hypnotic state can be produced in one of the following ways: First, HOW TO WAKE A SUBJECT FROM HYPNOTIC SLEEP. It is better that the person who induces hypnotic sleep should awaken As a rule, subjects in this stage of hypnotism do not feel any sensation This subject did not pass into such a deep state of hypnotism, but the Deception in All Cases.--Confessions of a Professional Hypnotic Subject. conditions did not follow the subject was in a hypnotic trance; but it suggestion made during the hypnotic condition as to what a person will The operator hypnotizes the subject, and when he is in deep cache = ./cache/19342.txt txt = ./txt/19342.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30540 author = Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart title = The Gates Between date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40717 sentences = 3018 flesch = 87 summary = this slender woman whose eyes, like the sword of flame, turned this way forty-six years old, and a Darwinian,--I loved my wife like any common, I had lived to be almost fifty years old, and no person had ever said: wish I'd married a woman with a little wifely spirit!--or else not by which a man must manage his horse, come life or death. "I should not like to be the man who has got to tell Helen." This looking like a spirit, far across the rich colours of the room, her there so little love of wife and child? Thoughts like these came to me so quietly and so naturally, now, that I "I don't understand it, Doctor," she said, with something like old days on earth, to learn to do, and like any live human baby I was conscious of a wish to turn the great man's thought cache = ./cache/30540.txt txt = ./txt/30540.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1638 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The New Revelation date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20364 sentences = 908 flesch = 71 summary = changed in such cases, but the body through which the spirit worked, good thing, as keeping us in touch with the spiritual world. evidence proved that actual appearances of the dead person came with thought-reading at one end, and the actual manifestation of the spirit who go the length of saying that the phenomena and messages come from If a person comes to me with an account of life in some further certain the fact of life after death, the base of all religion. spirit body was possibly so far material as to be more visible to a In connection with the general subject of life after death, people may The cases of spirits who give good proof of in Mr. Dawson Roger's life, a very good case of a spirit who called life-time here, they pass to some further state of existence; that cache = ./cache/1638.txt txt = ./txt/1638.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22593 author = Garland, Hamlin title = The Shadow World date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 69127 sentences = 4776 flesch = 81 summary = medium may mean nothing--on the part of a psychic like your friend Mrs. Harris it means a very great deal. "Mrs. Smiley, you are to sit here," I said, drawing an arm-chair to the As Mrs. Miller, a quiet little woman (not so far removed from Mrs. Smiley's own type), entered the door and greeted us both, the psychic's After surveying the room, Mrs. Smiley turned to me with a note of satisfaction in her voice, and said: "Now," said I, "I am going to ask Mrs. Miller to fasten this long tape right hand on the psychic's left and touched fingers with Mrs. Miller. table with both Mrs. Rose's hands and my own resting upon the slates _I "I am very close to the ultimate mystery, Mrs. Smiley," I said, as I placed my hand upon her wrist. "What was the psychic doing all this time?" asked Miller. cache = ./cache/22593.txt txt = ./txt/22593.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 19376 author = Sage, Michael title = Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52742 sentences = 3483 flesch = 75 summary = by Phinuit--Mrs Blodgett's sitting--Thought-reading introduce Dr Hodgson, the man who has studied Mrs Piper's case with the When such a man, after long study of Mrs Piper's phenomena, Professor William James asked Phinuit, during a mediumistic trance, to At this first sitting Mrs Piper felt very strange thrills, and thought speak of Mrs Piper, and as she had never seen a medium, she asked for a At another sitting, Phinuit said to Professor James, who this time was At another sitting Phinuit said to Professor James, "You have just Mrs Piper told Dr Hodgson that Phinuit had often been shown medicinal At one of the first sittings[38] Dr Hodgson had with Mrs Piper, Phinuit question--Is Phinuit a different personality from Mrs Piper, or is he Miss Warner had two sittings with Mrs Piper[58] five years after George Professor Hyslop had once been present at one of Mrs Piper's sittings, cache = ./cache/19376.txt txt = ./txt/19376.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21041 author = Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine) title = Seen and Unseen date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 89916 sentences = 4499 flesch = 76 summary = Now, as a matter of fact, my friend was noted for her beautiful hands, The veil this time was materialised in the usual way, my friend going up minutes (having arrived very punctually), Mrs Gray looked at my friend, night, though it had come and gone long before four A.M. It is necessary to remember that the sun rises about three-thirty A.M. during the end of December or first week in January out there, so it in Yorkshire, at the very time when a dear old friend of mine (Mrs dear, kind old man!" Mrs Wedgwood said; then turning round, she added: asked Mrs Wedgwood to come up into my room before she returned to of the second young man as they left the room, and was told later that Long years passed, during which I neither saw nor heard of my friend. time_ my poor friend might come to realise that his boy was "as much cache = ./cache/21041.txt txt = ./txt/21041.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 4251 author = Corelli, Marie title = The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 129457 sentences = 8357 flesch = 82 summary = "So did I love work when I was your age,"--he said--"I thought I could "Dear old Sol!" said Francesca, shading her eyes as she looked at the "You speak like an oracle, fair lady!"--said Mr. Harland--"But despite "Well, Catherine, then,"--I said, smiling a little--"Surely you know "You talk like a poet,"--she said--"And of all things in the world I "Her sails must surely be lit up in that way by electricity"--said Dr. Brayle, who had been watching her attentively--"But how it is done and "She came into the loch like a flash,"--said Captain Derrick--"I saw "You're sure you do not mind?"--said Harland, then, opening his eyes movement of her little hand, had swept away a life,--and as I looked A look of wonder and rapture came on his face like the light of "I think your day's outing has done you good," she said--"You look "Why do you look at me like that?" she said. cache = ./cache/4251.txt txt = ./txt/4251.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14675 author = Smolnikar, Andrew B. (Andreas Bernardus) title = Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Most important developments regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppresive [sic] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole globe date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78511 sentences = 2571 flesch = 58 summary = attend those conventions, and then to commence with power the New Era. Therefore I thought, that a trial should be made, whether the United I did not know at that time, that the spirit of my Lord was preparing me man and the spirit world, they are reading many signs of the times, instead of having received our message of Peace, did all in their power welfare, and having been a great medium of spirit manifestations before opportunity to stop and write in her house, great spirit manifestations our ground, he would have assisted us to open the door for the New Era. But he returned to the sects, from which spirits commenced to manifest great prophecy regarding the peace of nations was published on Easter he instead of having studied my books and examined our message of Peace publishing this book, we read on the 42d page: "The same time a great cache = ./cache/14675.txt txt = ./txt/14675.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 439 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Vital Message date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 29167 sentences = 1238 flesch = 66 summary = is to be remembered that Christ's life in this world occupied, so far attention to Christ's life as compared to His death, and the new concerning Christ, the gentle, loving and powerful spirit which broods one hand, you had a material, earth-bound spirit of a low order of forms of mediumship, the direct voice and spirit photography, have also In the case of the direct voice one of the leading exponents is Mrs. French, an amateur medium in America, whose work is described both by voice in the case of four different mediums, two of them amateurs, and of these various accounts as to the conditions of spirit life. great Christ spirit, the very soul of reason, of justice, and of of spirit life and have lived entirely for the earth, its cares and these powers were contained always within His human body, or how far He cache = ./cache/439.txt txt = ./txt/439.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 563 author = Kennon, J. L. title = The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 22355 sentences = 1165 flesch = 68 summary = Chapter I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS. are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets. the Planet Mars, its people, its form of government, its Art, It appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets of Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your characteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a general way, Through God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe, most Important centers of population on the planet Mars. penalty for having forgotten God, is unknown on this planet Mars. time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. All of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, except Art on Mars typifies man's spiritual and material progress on this cache = ./cache/563.txt txt = ./txt/563.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12353 author = Lang, Andrew title = The Making of Religion date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 126298 sentences = 7134 flesch = 69 summary = these gods became supreme, and, at last, was regarded as the one only God. Meanwhile man retained his belief in the existence of his own soul, follow Mr. Tylor's example, and collect savage _beliefs_ about visions, phenomena helped to originate the savage belief in 'spirits,' and when he an alien soul, ghost, spirit, or god, taking up its abode in a man, and On the theory of savage philosophy, as explained by Mr. Tylor himself, a man's soul may leave his body and become visible to regard, like ancestor-worship, it differs from the belief in a Supreme nature and origin, things which would suggest to a savage his theory of On this theory 'the lowest savages' are devoid of the idea of god or of in human affairs;' which is not a Jesuit idea of God. In all missionary accounts of savage religion, we have to guard against savages, obscured later by ancestor-worship and ghost-gods, but not cache = ./cache/12353.txt txt = ./txt/12353.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13319 author = Belasco, David title = The Return of Peter Grimm date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36123 sentences = 6161 flesch = 94 summary = The scene of the play is laid in the living room of Peter Grimm's home at [_Thinking--ignoring_ FREDERIK.] He's a great old man--your uncle. time._ JAMES _posts the letters in a mail-box outside the door._ PETER PETER _calls "Come in,"_ WILLIAM, _a delicate child of eight, stands [_Looking after_ JAMES.] Uncle Peter, when I came in this [_Seeing_ WILLIAM.] Circus day comes but once a year, little _There is a pause._ PETER _stops short, looking at_ WILLIAM. speaking so as not to be heard by_ CATHERINE.] Frederik, I want to think [_Coming back to_ PETER _and looking at him transfixed._] Uncle CATHERINE _comes from_ WILLIAM'S _room, simply dressed in white--no touch [MARTA _re-enters from_ WILLIAM'S _room and closing the door comes down JAMES _looks at_ CATHERINE, _then at_ FREDERIK. makes you think Peter Grimm is in this room? I believe Uncle Peter Grimm was in this room cache = ./cache/13319.txt txt = ./txt/13319.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35681 author = Grierson, Francis title = Psycho-Phone Messages date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12559 sentences = 705 flesch = 68 summary = Ingersoll, on Our Great Women; Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism; caused by this great work in London at the time of its appearance. Germany, Italy, Austria and England before the great war, and after having As I write, I have before me a unique collection of letters written to Mr. Grierson by men and women eminent in philosophy, art, music, literature and cause a revolution, found a new empire to include France, Belgium, The new political and commercial dispensation for the English-speaking English and American business men are limited in general knowledge. Thousands of people move in a world of material shadows while their souls, spiritual power, aided by men who understand the difference between children, that a man who has lived forty years in the world of action Such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn America food profiteering began during the Civil War. This national vice cache = ./cache/35681.txt txt = ./txt/35681.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36009 author = nan title = A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 65397 sentences = 3076 flesch = 66 summary = New Years' Greetings from many of my dear Spirit Friends and persons think that when the change called death comes and the spirit is hard for spirits to communicate with friends on earth, but often difficult In the evening of the same day I was at a materializing seance at Mrs. Cooper's, where the following persons besides myself were present: Mr. Cooper, his wife, Mrs. Annie Cooper, the medium; Dr. Joseph R. my dear spirit friend, Mrs. Fredrika Ehrenborg, through the medial power was Madam Ehrenborg's.") During the trance state of Mrs. Green, the spirit time the two worlds--the spiritual and material--of Mars are so closely NEW YEARS' GREETINGS FROM MANY OF MY DEAR SPIRIT FRIENDS AND NEAR beautiful spirit communications this coming year, I bid you good day. at the time he came to me upwards of fifty years in spirit life. The spirits, after writing on Mrs. Green's slate for about an cache = ./cache/36009.txt txt = ./txt/36009.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34475 author = Brackett, Edward Augustus title = Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 23480 sentences = 1127 flesch = 68 summary = Near the close of the séance, the lady who sat next the cabinet said two forms that appeared to be materialized, the medium, and myself! The forms that came from the cabinet were either personations by the I have known persons to visit séances many times without receiving any At Mrs. Fay's, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 1885, previous to the séance, Mrs. Fay came into the room under the control of "Auntie," and requested that Mrs. Sawyer's, the spirits lead the medium out of the cabinet; that at Mrs. Fay's the forms often take the visitors into the cabinet and show them not only the medium but the materialized control,--are things which form, and not a personation by the medium. In the materializing séance come, for the time being, living, breathing, PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM OF MATERIALIZED FORMS _changed to_ PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM, OR MATERIALIZED FORMs cache = ./cache/34475.txt txt = ./txt/34475.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36512 author = Cruikshank, George title = Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 27085 sentences = 971 flesch = 69 summary = details as to the _person_ and _dress_ of a Ghost; and in a work which short story about the ghost of a lady appearing to her friend. appears that this was reported to be the ghost of a poor gentleman of to the light of day some more facts about ghosts from the _dark_ side night there appeared to him in his bed-room the ghost of a stout old for a "play bill!"), in which the ghost or evil spirit of a drummer, or SPIRITS OF CLOTHES, why, then, it appears that GHOSTS NEVER DID APPEAR, question on the table, for the spirits to rap out an answer--viz., as table, and there the spirit sat, but, like 'Banquo's' Ghost, _invisible these supposed spirits, their mediums, and their friends should _place_ satisfied unless they could see these spirited ghosts "knock each brain he had the _appearance_ of a person or ghost constantly by his cache = ./cache/36512.txt txt = ./txt/36512.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36312 author = Putnam, Allen title = Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 139598 sentences = 6294 flesch = 65 summary = time and common sense, but cause human physical science to bring within immediate source of the devil's power to act upon visible man and matter. extent of witchcraft facts, than we generally get from other persons of of Mather's great personal witchcraft devil of supernal origin, vast spirit action upon persons and things in earth life, he cannot perhaps impersonal force at times might cause supernal knowledge and power infatuation, he could have learned from passing developments that Mrs. Hibbins probably, at times, was essentially a liberated spirit, hearing for at that day faith was common that the devil had not power to accuse a testimony to the general fact that spirit action took sensible effect upon spirits, they might be, at times, able to _sense_ the fact that forceful man or some other spirit, or even some impersonal natural force, gained spirits and the devil; and also between persons whose inner senses were cache = ./cache/36312.txt txt = ./txt/36312.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39212 author = Marryat, Florence title = There is No Death date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 107395 sentences = 5880 flesch = 81 summary = I was having a sitting one day in my own house with a lady friend, named man, and an intimate friend of mine), but the spirit came so many times The old friend whose spirit visited me through Mrs. Fitzgerald had lost little girl with the blue flowers was my spirit child, "Florence," whose follow the advice given her, as it will do harm instead of good." Mrs. Cook added, "I don't know to what 'Florence' alludes, of course, but I room and write the name of the friend I loved best in the spirit world "That is likely enough," said Mrs. Volckman; "but if she comes again she placed in my hand, telling me to follow her and look at her medium, spirit said, "Then look round this way, and see what I was like in earth "Mrs. Powles" said, "I cannot come out further into the room to-day. cache = ./cache/39212.txt txt = ./txt/39212.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39279 author = Flammarion, Camille title = Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 163749 sentences = 8942 flesch = 72 summary = The medium next places her hands with ours upon the table, and the taps 7. During séance experiments, phantoms often appear,--hands, arms, a head, Several persons group themselves about a table, place their hands upon it, my left hand placed upon the table was in contact with that of my lift his hand about eight inches above the table and taps three times medium sat at the same narrow end of the table, with her hands persons seated about the table place their hands on it, and form the that at the same time the medium had her hand placed upon the upper I take a little table, and direct Eusapia to put her hands on it. In fact the movement of the large table took place almost 1. A small table, on which the hands of four persons were placed cache = ./cache/39279.txt txt = ./txt/39279.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36908 author = Culpin, Millais title = Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 42206 sentences = 1757 flesch = 63 summary = of cells forming the body of man, has evolved the power of sensing and time, the subject living, as it were, the life of the dissociated of dissociation and repression, and of the working of the unconscious, suggestion, as every confidence-trick man knows; the writer of dissociated stream of consciousness, and this would make it account for In my account of the water-diviner I suggested that his dissociated dissociation, his stream of consciousness being filled by the feeling of thought' explains why a dream sometimes expresses an unconscious desire dissociated stream whilst the main personality of the subject is for the The medium (or, in this case, Feda) tells Sir Oliver Lodge (see pp. medium told Sir Oliver about the existence of the photograph, but the of evidence is produced in this case, and I am shown a spirit photograph the medium and one the believer--work into each other's hands results cache = ./cache/36908.txt txt = ./txt/36908.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11950 author = University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism title = Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 63413 sentences = 3483 flesch = 74 summary = the slates had been held by both hands of the Medium for a long time in table; on these hands the Medium places his own and the séance begins. With his right hand the Medium holds the slate up a second slate, and placed it in the hands of the same Medium, with Medium laid her hands upon the table and tried to produce "raps," but slates, after being held for a long while by both hands of the Medium At the time at which the slate was passed to the hand of Mr. Sellers, under the table, the Medium compelled me to sit around in a Light turned up--both slates held by the Medium under the table--no the Medium asked Dr. Leidy to put his hand also upon a slate which the One of the Slate-writing Mediums, with whom we held several séances, Spirit,' a remark which a long experience with Slate-Writing Mediums has cache = ./cache/11950.txt txt = ./txt/11950.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34250 author = Garland, Hamlin title = Victor Ollnee's Discipline date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 71588 sentences = 6096 flesch = 89 summary = moved to the city I know my mother set up her 'ghost-room' again." "Victor," said his mother, and her tone was one of relief, "these are my Mrs. Joyce led the way down the creaking stairs, and Victor, following His mother said, sharply, "You mustn't do that, Victor." She took up the "You may take the slate, Victor," said Mrs. Ollnee. Mrs. Joyce went on: "Come to my house to-night for dinner. He thought of Mrs. Joyce, knowing that his mother would want to have her It was a long time before the calm, cultivated voice of Mrs. Joyce came Victor was all for throwing things in their faces, but Mrs. Joyce In consenting to the removal of his mother to Mrs. Joyce's home Victor feel like a fraud every time I see Mrs. Joyce handing out one of those He remained silent as Mrs. Joyce rose and went to his mother. cache = ./cache/34250.txt txt = ./txt/34250.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33506 author = Davenport, Reuben Briggs title = The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 38463 sentences = 2392 flesch = 74 summary = eldest sister, Mrs. Ann Leah Fox Underhill, who is now the only remaining I have given in the following pages, the real lives of Mrs. Kane and Mrs. Jencken, in so far as they bear in any important degree upon the Mrs. Kane paused here, and I heard first a rapping under the floor Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane says at the present time: "The sounds which were heard at those times," says Mrs. Kane in her Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane says, further: "My father did not believe in investigated the source of the "raps." Mrs. Kane says that one of the "mediums," and Mrs. Underhill asserts that at times plentiful "rappings" Mrs. Kane, at the "Spiritual Mansion," not only produced pretended Even the investigation of the remarkable "rappings," produced by Mrs. Kane, in which the Commission engaged--while less successful than any The second séance in which Mrs. Kane acted as "medium" took place at the cache = ./cache/33506.txt txt = ./txt/33506.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34988 author = Hooker, Brian title = The Professor's Mystery date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 70854 sentences = 5415 flesch = 91 summary = Miss Tabor said nothing but looked across to her father. "Look here, Mr. Tabor," said I, more calmly, "I don't know what you have "I think I understand you now a little better, Mr. Crosby," she said. "Mrs. Carucci has been hurt," said Miss Tabor. "I was just going to ask you about that," said Lady, with a queer little have spoken a few words while Lady was getting out of the car and Mrs. Carucci was helped down and half-carried into the house between the two got a look at you or Lady or the car who would be likely to have mind "Mr. Tabor," I said, "there's a man named Maclean in the other room, who to be Mrs. Tabor's came voices, Lady's full and sweet, her mother's "Hold the line a moment," said I; and as I turned, there was Mrs. Tabor cache = ./cache/34988.txt txt = ./txt/34988.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42318 author = Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title = The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge's Dream date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 56233 sentences = 2394 flesch = 66 summary = ignorant old women; whereas, in his day, they had come to be persons spirit or mind, regarded as in direct opposition to the world of matter. of her own mind at the time; and when frivolous questions are asked, minds of the persons present, although it frequently gives theories in his wife's mind when she asked the question, were supposed to be stated that those young persons whose hands were on the Planchette knew _I._ True, but the Bible calls the spirits thus communicating, "familiar medium at all; and why spirits can not, as a general rule, communicate foundation of a new thought in your mind by asking, Do you know of any How shall a good and Christian person who knows and has felt the truth not." This Satan was a person ever present in the mind of Christ. faith in spirits; minds which are empty, swept of all spiritual belief, cache = ./cache/42318.txt txt = ./txt/42318.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43346 author = nan title = The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2) Being Facts, Records, and Traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61689 sentences = 3214 flesch = 72 summary = said College, and dead some years ago, a friend of Mr. Shaw's, in the on the day and at the very hour on which the friends had seen his spirit my dear uncle, how could the spirit of a living man appear?' said Examples of Apparitions at the time of Death to friends and relations are, The following Account of the Apparition of a murdered man, near the place The following example of the appearance of the spirit of a dying woman to night's experiences:--'Having entered my room,' said he, 'I locked and spirit only, who, in fact, appears to live a second life on earth in union places, while "spirit hands" were seen and felt as palpably as mortal phenomena of the appearance of spirit-forms manifested itself. was 'No!' 'Accursed spirit,' said I, 'leave the room.' The table then The following Letter appeared in "The Times" newspaper a few years ago:-- cache = ./cache/43346.txt txt = ./txt/43346.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43237 author = Emmons, Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) title = The Spirit Land date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80672 sentences = 3765 flesch = 68 summary = This ignorance a cause of many superstitions.--Case of a person heard.--Inverted objects.--Visions of the world of spirits.--Case spirit.--Answers given by a succession of _raps_.--Account of a with the _rapping_ spirits.--Tables and chairs moved, sounds heard, --Letters received from the spiritual worlds.--The _Spirit Journal_, person approaching the tree, in a given time, would be magnetized, and having considered all things, and cast his eye upon the house, said, Bible and key turn round in the mean time, the person named is A Mrs. Draper, of Rochester, New York, had an interview with Dr. Franklin, at one time, while she was in a magnetized state. things are emanations from the spirit world, we are bound to believe tables, chairs, and the like, or that _spirits_ produce the noises and We have heard the case of a person who went to a medium and wished to present at the time; thus proving that the mind or spirit in the body cache = ./cache/43237.txt txt = ./txt/43237.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 56713 author = Johnson, G. Lindsay (George Lindsay) title = The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 122222 sentences = 7776 flesch = 84 summary = "This sounds like trifling with our common-sense," said Pierre to Renée "Come, let us follow the ladies to the drawing-room," said Villebois "My dear Delapine," said Riche, "you surely do not believe in "Permit me to ask you one question, my dear doctor," said Delapine. "Good evening, dear Renée," said Pierre, holding out his hand and "He cannot be far away," said Villebois, as the latter and Riche left "Now," said Delapine, as Riche and Villebois returned from the "Professor," said Monsieur Payot after Delapine had had a good rest, "Ma foi!" said Riche to himself, "I can't leave Delapine like this. "Riche, come here," said Villebois, looking at Delapine, "do you notice "Look here, monsieur," said Villebois, pointing to a little swollen "Monsieur Payot," said Villebois, "I cannot let you leave to-night. "When Henri comes back to me I will ask him," said Renée as she looked cache = ./cache/56713.txt txt = ./txt/56713.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 61807 author = Page, Charles Grafton title = Psychomancy: Spirit-Rappings and Table-Tippings Exposed date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 18816 sentences = 787 flesch = 65 summary = spirit-rappings, or table-tippings, which cannot be explained upon rap out intelligence by sounds, get under tables and tip them over, spirits would not communicate, and the table would not tip, _certainly Do you think that rappings and table-tippings give respectability to in spirit-rapping and table-tipping? in spirit-rapping and table-tipping? tricks of raps and tips to the direct agency of the devil, or evil or table-tippings to electricity, magnetism, or some new fluid, goes of power; but according to this new table-tipping philosophy, we spirits rap nowhere except directly _under the girls, and about their "Are there any spirits present?" was again asked, and the raps came with the facts, that is the right spirit was designated by the raps, the spirits had rapped upon his foot, while sitting at a table. of Rochester spirit-rappings and table-tippings. all along been believing that the spirits tipped the table, and that cache = ./cache/61807.txt txt = ./txt/61807.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 51743 author = McCabe, Joseph title = Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 48085 sentences = 2662 flesch = 73 summary = spirit-photographs, lights and music in the dark, messages from the I have seen unpaid mediums, men and women of the world, cheat The "evidence" afforded by mediums like Mr. Vale Owen, and the myriads of quite recent automatic writers and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in effect, recommends two further mediums as wonderful medium by Sir Oliver Lodge, and who was detected and exposed A few months later Herne and Williams, the professional friends of Mrs. Guppy whose spirit-controls had wafted that very voluminous lady as of the living medium, not spirits, does these things, and they talk of a spirits can rap on floors, or on the medium's chair, let the table be ask us to believe that a medium can get the head of a ghost on a plate, medium and gave sittings to Spiritualists. mediums use in these spirit messages. in any way in communication with spirits is a "medium." The word does cache = ./cache/51743.txt txt = ./txt/51743.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36730 author = Willson, Beckles title = Occultism and Common-Sense date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 56212 sentences = 3635 flesch = 75 summary = _In any case, as I said in a letter published in_ The Times, _so long case of spirit apparition or materialisation, coincident dreams, well to bear in mind Mr Andrew Lang's timely remark, "there is a point closed eyes, of course), and presently he thought he saw "something went to the drawing-room, opened it, and to my astonishment saw came to my room and said: 'I believe my wife died last night, little, and had not seen for a very long time, though he lived other hand observe how many cases we come across where the phenomena After a time, in well-known cases, they appear to need no inducement to mediums purporting to be controlled by spirit power, whose _séances_ are _séances_ were carefully recorded by the medium's friends, Dr and Mrs after case in the Society's reports, but in all the time Mrs Piper has cache = ./cache/36730.txt txt = ./txt/36730.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39718 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Wanderings of a Spiritualist date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 84393 sentences = 4234 flesch = 74 summary = House Ball.--The Rescue Circle again.--Sitting with Mrs. Harris.--A good test case.--Australian botany.--The land of myrtles.--English cricket team.--Great final meeting in Melbourne. works of man, are flanked by great sky advertisements of various brands one of those great men like Sir Ronald Ross, whom the Indian Medical of these good, kind people was aboard, bearing great bunches of wild the fittings of a man-of-war, and a great impression of cleanliness and the need for good living in a way which meets their spiritual wants, Of my psychic work at Auckland there is little to be said, save that I said, "Above your head I see a man, an artist, long hair, brown eyes, man who has spent great part of his life studying the subject, and As an example of how it works, some years ago a Melbourne man named many cases by large proprietors who work great tracts with few hands, so cache = ./cache/39718.txt txt = ./txt/39718.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44349 author = Evans, Henry Ridgely title = Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 54183 sentences = 3235 flesch = 71 summary = Persons calling themselves mediums present certain phenomena, Some years ago, the most famous of the slate-writing mediums was Dr. Henry medium makes an exchange of slates, returns to the table, washes both I shall now sum up the subject of Dr. Slade's spirit-slate writing, (Fig. 3) and endeavor to show how grossly exaggerated the reports of the the slate the medium presses the writing on the paper against the surface small table within the enclosure by the right hand of the medium, had it "To have produced the phenomena by using his right hand the medium would explanation of the phenomena, was the grasp of the medium's hand on Mrs. Gillespie's arm. persons, including the medium, sat around an ordinary-sized table in Mr. X--'s drawing room, and formed a chain of hands, in the following manner: spiritual world by means of "spirit-rapping," "medium writing," "physical cache = ./cache/44349.txt txt = ./txt/44349.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 37917 author = Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title = Across the Stream date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 100838 sentences = 5857 flesch = 84 summary = "But I want to come in now," said Archie. father said, "Take good care of Master Archie, William. "Oh, mummy, that will be lovely for you," said Archie, remembering that usual, and Archie's father came out of his room, looking vexed, and Then came bed-time, and Archie, still excited, said his prayers with a "Archie, open your door immediately," said his father. "Certainly I don't want Archie to think that," said his mother. "Archie, we're going to Grives in a few days," she said. "I should think I ought to know best," said Archie. "Oh, Archie, I wish I wasn't going away," she said. "Cousin Marion thinks it's time you went to bed," said Jessie. "Just come for a cocktail, father," said Archie. "Yes, mother and Jessie," said Archie, pouring himself out some whisky. "I know: this doesn't come very well from me, Archie," he said. 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three dimensions: time mr mrs; archie mr man; medium table hand; said like time; said mrs like file(s): ./cache/14675.txt, ./cache/12353.txt, ./cache/39279.txt, ./cache/56713.txt, ./cache/34250.txt titles(s): Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Most important developments regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppresive [sic] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole globe | The Making of Religion | Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author''s Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants | The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne | Victor Ollnee''s Discipline Type: gutenberg title: subject-spiritualism-gutenberg date: 2021-06-10 time: 13:06 username: emorgan patron: Eric Morgan email: emorgan@nd.edu input: facet_subject:"Spiritualism" ==== make-pages.sh htm files ==== make-pages.sh complex files ==== make-pages.sh named enities ==== making bibliographics id: 19342 author: Alpheus, A. title: Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use date: words: 34332.0 sentences: 1720.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/19342.txt txt: ./txt/19342.txt summary: CHAPTER IV--How the subject feels under hypnotization--Dr. Cocke''s evidence that persons in the hypnotic state have (sometimes) remarkable geniuses would be good hypnotic subjects), still such persons have not a magnet and electricity may affect persons in the hypnotic state, and "The hypnotic state can be produced in one of the following ways: First, HOW TO WAKE A SUBJECT FROM HYPNOTIC SLEEP. It is better that the person who induces hypnotic sleep should awaken As a rule, subjects in this stage of hypnotism do not feel any sensation This subject did not pass into such a deep state of hypnotism, but the Deception in All Cases.--Confessions of a Professional Hypnotic Subject. conditions did not follow the subject was in a hypnotic trance; but it suggestion made during the hypnotic condition as to what a person will The operator hypnotizes the subject, and when he is in deep id: 21041 author: Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine) title: Seen and Unseen date: words: 89916.0 sentences: 4499.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/21041.txt txt: ./txt/21041.txt summary: Now, as a matter of fact, my friend was noted for her beautiful hands, The veil this time was materialised in the usual way, my friend going up minutes (having arrived very punctually), Mrs Gray looked at my friend, night, though it had come and gone long before four A.M. It is necessary to remember that the sun rises about three-thirty A.M. during the end of December or first week in January out there, so it in Yorkshire, at the very time when a dear old friend of mine (Mrs dear, kind old man!" Mrs Wedgwood said; then turning round, she added: asked Mrs Wedgwood to come up into my room before she returned to of the second young man as they left the room, and was told later that Long years passed, during which I neither saw nor heard of my friend. time_ my poor friend might come to realise that his boy was "as much id: 24359 author: Belasco, David title: The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 13319 author: Belasco, David title: The Return of Peter Grimm date: words: 36123.0 sentences: 6161.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/13319.txt txt: ./txt/13319.txt summary: The scene of the play is laid in the living room of Peter Grimm''s home at [_Thinking--ignoring_ FREDERIK.] He''s a great old man--your uncle. time._ JAMES _posts the letters in a mail-box outside the door._ PETER PETER _calls "Come in,"_ WILLIAM, _a delicate child of eight, stands [_Looking after_ JAMES.] Uncle Peter, when I came in this [_Seeing_ WILLIAM.] Circus day comes but once a year, little _There is a pause._ PETER _stops short, looking at_ WILLIAM. speaking so as not to be heard by_ CATHERINE.] Frederik, I want to think [_Coming back to_ PETER _and looking at him transfixed._] Uncle CATHERINE _comes from_ WILLIAM''S _room, simply dressed in white--no touch [MARTA _re-enters from_ WILLIAM''S _room and closing the door comes down JAMES _looks at_ CATHERINE, _then at_ FREDERIK. makes you think Peter Grimm is in this room? I believe Uncle Peter Grimm was in this room id: 37917 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: Across the Stream date: words: 100838.0 sentences: 5857.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/37917.txt txt: ./txt/37917.txt summary: "But I want to come in now," said Archie. father said, "Take good care of Master Archie, William. "Oh, mummy, that will be lovely for you," said Archie, remembering that usual, and Archie''s father came out of his room, looking vexed, and Then came bed-time, and Archie, still excited, said his prayers with a "Archie, open your door immediately," said his father. "Certainly I don''t want Archie to think that," said his mother. "Archie, we''re going to Grives in a few days," she said. "I should think I ought to know best," said Archie. "Oh, Archie, I wish I wasn''t going away," she said. "Cousin Marion thinks it''s time you went to bed," said Jessie. "Just come for a cocktail, father," said Archie. "Yes, mother and Jessie," said Archie, pouring himself out some whisky. "I know: this doesn''t come very well from me, Archie," he said. "Yes, Archie, I should love to come," she said. id: 34475 author: Brackett, Edward Augustus title: Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another Life, What Are They date: words: 23480.0 sentences: 1127.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/34475.txt txt: ./txt/34475.txt summary: Near the close of the séance, the lady who sat next the cabinet said two forms that appeared to be materialized, the medium, and myself! The forms that came from the cabinet were either personations by the I have known persons to visit séances many times without receiving any At Mrs. Fay''s, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 1885, previous to the séance, Mrs. Fay came into the room under the control of "Auntie," and requested that Mrs. Sawyer''s, the spirits lead the medium out of the cabinet; that at Mrs. Fay''s the forms often take the visitors into the cabinet and show them not only the medium but the materialized control,--are things which form, and not a personation by the medium. In the materializing séance come, for the time being, living, breathing, PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM OF MATERIALIZED FORMS _changed to_ PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM, OR MATERIALIZED FORMs id: 4251 author: Corelli, Marie title: The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance date: words: 129457.0 sentences: 8357.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/4251.txt txt: ./txt/4251.txt summary: "So did I love work when I was your age,"--he said--"I thought I could "Dear old Sol!" said Francesca, shading her eyes as she looked at the "You speak like an oracle, fair lady!"--said Mr. Harland--"But despite "Well, Catherine, then,"--I said, smiling a little--"Surely you know "You talk like a poet,"--she said--"And of all things in the world I "Her sails must surely be lit up in that way by electricity"--said Dr. Brayle, who had been watching her attentively--"But how it is done and "She came into the loch like a flash,"--said Captain Derrick--"I saw "You''re sure you do not mind?"--said Harland, then, opening his eyes movement of her little hand, had swept away a life,--and as I looked A look of wonder and rapture came on his face like the light of "I think your day''s outing has done you good," she said--"You look "Why do you look at me like that?" she said. id: 36512 author: Cruikshank, George title: Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" date: words: 27085.0 sentences: 971.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/36512.txt txt: ./txt/36512.txt summary: details as to the _person_ and _dress_ of a Ghost; and in a work which short story about the ghost of a lady appearing to her friend. appears that this was reported to be the ghost of a poor gentleman of to the light of day some more facts about ghosts from the _dark_ side night there appeared to him in his bed-room the ghost of a stout old for a "play bill!"), in which the ghost or evil spirit of a drummer, or SPIRITS OF CLOTHES, why, then, it appears that GHOSTS NEVER DID APPEAR, question on the table, for the spirits to rap out an answer--viz., as table, and there the spirit sat, but, like ''Banquo''s'' Ghost, _invisible these supposed spirits, their mediums, and their friends should _place_ satisfied unless they could see these spirited ghosts "knock each brain he had the _appearance_ of a person or ghost constantly by his id: 36908 author: Culpin, Millais title: Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge date: words: 42206.0 sentences: 1757.0 pages: flesch: 63.0 cache: ./cache/36908.txt txt: ./txt/36908.txt summary: of cells forming the body of man, has evolved the power of sensing and time, the subject living, as it were, the life of the dissociated of dissociation and repression, and of the working of the unconscious, suggestion, as every confidence-trick man knows; the writer of dissociated stream of consciousness, and this would make it account for In my account of the water-diviner I suggested that his dissociated dissociation, his stream of consciousness being filled by the feeling of thought'' explains why a dream sometimes expresses an unconscious desire dissociated stream whilst the main personality of the subject is for the The medium (or, in this case, Feda) tells Sir Oliver Lodge (see pp. medium told Sir Oliver about the existence of the photograph, but the of evidence is produced in this case, and I am shown a spirit photograph the medium and one the believer--work into each other''s hands results id: 33506 author: Davenport, Reuben Briggs title: The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters date: words: 38463.0 sentences: 2392.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/33506.txt txt: ./txt/33506.txt summary: eldest sister, Mrs. Ann Leah Fox Underhill, who is now the only remaining I have given in the following pages, the real lives of Mrs. Kane and Mrs. Jencken, in so far as they bear in any important degree upon the Mrs. Kane paused here, and I heard first a rapping under the floor Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane says at the present time: "The sounds which were heard at those times," says Mrs. Kane in her Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane says, further: "My father did not believe in investigated the source of the "raps." Mrs. Kane says that one of the "mediums," and Mrs. Underhill asserts that at times plentiful "rappings" Mrs. Kane, at the "Spiritual Mansion," not only produced pretended Even the investigation of the remarkable "rappings," produced by Mrs. Kane, in which the Commission engaged--while less successful than any The second séance in which Mrs. Kane acted as "medium" took place at the id: 1638 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The New Revelation date: words: 20364.0 sentences: 908.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/1638.txt txt: ./txt/1638.txt summary: changed in such cases, but the body through which the spirit worked, good thing, as keeping us in touch with the spiritual world. evidence proved that actual appearances of the dead person came with thought-reading at one end, and the actual manifestation of the spirit who go the length of saying that the phenomena and messages come from If a person comes to me with an account of life in some further certain the fact of life after death, the base of all religion. spirit body was possibly so far material as to be more visible to a In connection with the general subject of life after death, people may The cases of spirits who give good proof of in Mr. Dawson Roger''s life, a very good case of a spirit who called life-time here, they pass to some further state of existence; that id: 439 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Vital Message date: words: 29167.0 sentences: 1238.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/439.txt txt: ./txt/439.txt summary: is to be remembered that Christ''s life in this world occupied, so far attention to Christ''s life as compared to His death, and the new concerning Christ, the gentle, loving and powerful spirit which broods one hand, you had a material, earth-bound spirit of a low order of forms of mediumship, the direct voice and spirit photography, have also In the case of the direct voice one of the leading exponents is Mrs. French, an amateur medium in America, whose work is described both by voice in the case of four different mediums, two of them amateurs, and of these various accounts as to the conditions of spirit life. great Christ spirit, the very soul of reason, of justice, and of of spirit life and have lived entirely for the earth, its cares and these powers were contained always within His human body, or how far He id: 39718 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Wanderings of a Spiritualist date: words: 84393.0 sentences: 4234.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/39718.txt txt: ./txt/39718.txt summary: House Ball.--The Rescue Circle again.--Sitting with Mrs. Harris.--A good test case.--Australian botany.--The land of myrtles.--English cricket team.--Great final meeting in Melbourne. works of man, are flanked by great sky advertisements of various brands one of those great men like Sir Ronald Ross, whom the Indian Medical of these good, kind people was aboard, bearing great bunches of wild the fittings of a man-of-war, and a great impression of cleanliness and the need for good living in a way which meets their spiritual wants, Of my psychic work at Auckland there is little to be said, save that I said, "Above your head I see a man, an artist, long hair, brown eyes, man who has spent great part of his life studying the subject, and As an example of how it works, some years ago a Melbourne man named many cases by large proprietors who work great tracts with few hands, so id: 43237 author: Emmons, Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) title: The Spirit Land date: words: 80672.0 sentences: 3765.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/43237.txt txt: ./txt/43237.txt summary: This ignorance a cause of many superstitions.--Case of a person heard.--Inverted objects.--Visions of the world of spirits.--Case spirit.--Answers given by a succession of _raps_.--Account of a with the _rapping_ spirits.--Tables and chairs moved, sounds heard, --Letters received from the spiritual worlds.--The _Spirit Journal_, person approaching the tree, in a given time, would be magnetized, and having considered all things, and cast his eye upon the house, said, Bible and key turn round in the mean time, the person named is A Mrs. Draper, of Rochester, New York, had an interview with Dr. Franklin, at one time, while she was in a magnetized state. things are emanations from the spirit world, we are bound to believe tables, chairs, and the like, or that _spirits_ produce the noises and We have heard the case of a person who went to a medium and wished to present at the time; thus proving that the mind or spirit in the body id: 44349 author: Evans, Henry Ridgely title: Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy date: words: 54183.0 sentences: 3235.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/44349.txt txt: ./txt/44349.txt summary: Persons calling themselves mediums present certain phenomena, Some years ago, the most famous of the slate-writing mediums was Dr. Henry medium makes an exchange of slates, returns to the table, washes both I shall now sum up the subject of Dr. Slade''s spirit-slate writing, (Fig. 3) and endeavor to show how grossly exaggerated the reports of the the slate the medium presses the writing on the paper against the surface small table within the enclosure by the right hand of the medium, had it "To have produced the phenomena by using his right hand the medium would explanation of the phenomena, was the grasp of the medium''s hand on Mrs. Gillespie''s arm. persons, including the medium, sat around an ordinary-sized table in Mr. X--''s drawing room, and formed a chain of hands, in the following manner: spiritual world by means of "spirit-rapping," "medium writing," "physical id: 39279 author: Flammarion, Camille title: Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author''s Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants date: words: 163749.0 sentences: 8942.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/39279.txt txt: ./txt/39279.txt summary: The medium next places her hands with ours upon the table, and the taps 7. During séance experiments, phantoms often appear,--hands, arms, a head, Several persons group themselves about a table, place their hands upon it, my left hand placed upon the table was in contact with that of my lift his hand about eight inches above the table and taps three times medium sat at the same narrow end of the table, with her hands persons seated about the table place their hands on it, and form the that at the same time the medium had her hand placed upon the upper I take a little table, and direct Eusapia to put her hands on it. In fact the movement of the large table took place almost 1. A small table, on which the hands of four persons were placed id: 22593 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Shadow World date: words: 69127.0 sentences: 4776.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/22593.txt txt: ./txt/22593.txt summary: medium may mean nothing--on the part of a psychic like your friend Mrs. Harris it means a very great deal. "Mrs. Smiley, you are to sit here," I said, drawing an arm-chair to the As Mrs. Miller, a quiet little woman (not so far removed from Mrs. Smiley''s own type), entered the door and greeted us both, the psychic''s After surveying the room, Mrs. Smiley turned to me with a note of satisfaction in her voice, and said: "Now," said I, "I am going to ask Mrs. Miller to fasten this long tape right hand on the psychic''s left and touched fingers with Mrs. Miller. table with both Mrs. Rose''s hands and my own resting upon the slates _I "I am very close to the ultimate mystery, Mrs. Smiley," I said, as I placed my hand upon her wrist. "What was the psychic doing all this time?" asked Miller. id: 24220 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Tyranny of the Dark date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 34250 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Victor Ollnee''s Discipline date: words: 71588.0 sentences: 6096.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/34250.txt txt: ./txt/34250.txt summary: moved to the city I know my mother set up her ''ghost-room'' again." "Victor," said his mother, and her tone was one of relief, "these are my Mrs. Joyce led the way down the creaking stairs, and Victor, following His mother said, sharply, "You mustn''t do that, Victor." She took up the "You may take the slate, Victor," said Mrs. Ollnee. Mrs. Joyce went on: "Come to my house to-night for dinner. He thought of Mrs. Joyce, knowing that his mother would want to have her It was a long time before the calm, cultivated voice of Mrs. Joyce came Victor was all for throwing things in their faces, but Mrs. Joyce In consenting to the removal of his mother to Mrs. Joyce''s home Victor feel like a fraud every time I see Mrs. Joyce handing out one of those He remained silent as Mrs. Joyce rose and went to his mother. id: 35681 author: Grierson, Francis title: Psycho-Phone Messages date: words: 12559.0 sentences: 705.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/35681.txt txt: ./txt/35681.txt summary: Ingersoll, on Our Great Women; Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism; caused by this great work in London at the time of its appearance. Germany, Italy, Austria and England before the great war, and after having As I write, I have before me a unique collection of letters written to Mr. Grierson by men and women eminent in philosophy, art, music, literature and cause a revolution, found a new empire to include France, Belgium, The new political and commercial dispensation for the English-speaking English and American business men are limited in general knowledge. Thousands of people move in a world of material shadows while their souls, spiritual power, aided by men who understand the difference between children, that a man who has lived forty years in the world of action Such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn America food profiteering began during the Civil War. This national vice id: 34988 author: Hooker, Brian title: The Professor''s Mystery date: words: 70854.0 sentences: 5415.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/34988.txt txt: ./txt/34988.txt summary: Miss Tabor said nothing but looked across to her father. "Look here, Mr. Tabor," said I, more calmly, "I don''t know what you have "I think I understand you now a little better, Mr. Crosby," she said. "Mrs. Carucci has been hurt," said Miss Tabor. "I was just going to ask you about that," said Lady, with a queer little have spoken a few words while Lady was getting out of the car and Mrs. Carucci was helped down and half-carried into the house between the two got a look at you or Lady or the car who would be likely to have mind "Mr. Tabor," I said, "there''s a man named Maclean in the other room, who to be Mrs. Tabor''s came voices, Lady''s full and sweet, her mother''s "Hold the line a moment," said I; and as I turned, there was Mrs. Tabor id: 56713 author: Johnson, G. Lindsay (George Lindsay) title: The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne date: words: 122222.0 sentences: 7776.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/56713.txt txt: ./txt/56713.txt summary: "This sounds like trifling with our common-sense," said Pierre to Renée "Come, let us follow the ladies to the drawing-room," said Villebois "My dear Delapine," said Riche, "you surely do not believe in "Permit me to ask you one question, my dear doctor," said Delapine. "Good evening, dear Renée," said Pierre, holding out his hand and "He cannot be far away," said Villebois, as the latter and Riche left "Now," said Delapine, as Riche and Villebois returned from the "Professor," said Monsieur Payot after Delapine had had a good rest, "Ma foi!" said Riche to himself, "I can''t leave Delapine like this. "Riche, come here," said Villebois, looking at Delapine, "do you notice "Look here, monsieur," said Villebois, pointing to a little swollen "Monsieur Payot," said Villebois, "I cannot let you leave to-night. "When Henri comes back to me I will ask him," said Renée as she looked id: 563 author: Kennon, J. L. title: The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation date: words: 22355.0 sentences: 1165.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/563.txt txt: ./txt/563.txt summary: Chapter I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS. are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets. the Planet Mars, its people, its form of government, its Art, It appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets of Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your characteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a general way, Through God''s love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe, most Important centers of population on the planet Mars. penalty for having forgotten God, is unknown on this planet Mars. time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. All of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, except Art on Mars typifies man''s spiritual and material progress on this id: 12353 author: Lang, Andrew title: The Making of Religion date: words: 126298.0 sentences: 7134.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/12353.txt txt: ./txt/12353.txt summary: these gods became supreme, and, at last, was regarded as the one only God. Meanwhile man retained his belief in the existence of his own soul, follow Mr. Tylor''s example, and collect savage _beliefs_ about visions, phenomena helped to originate the savage belief in ''spirits,'' and when he an alien soul, ghost, spirit, or god, taking up its abode in a man, and On the theory of savage philosophy, as explained by Mr. Tylor himself, a man''s soul may leave his body and become visible to regard, like ancestor-worship, it differs from the belief in a Supreme nature and origin, things which would suggest to a savage his theory of On this theory ''the lowest savages'' are devoid of the idea of god or of in human affairs;'' which is not a Jesuit idea of God. In all missionary accounts of savage religion, we have to guard against savages, obscured later by ancestor-worship and ghost-gods, but not id: 39212 author: Marryat, Florence title: There is No Death date: words: 107395.0 sentences: 5880.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/39212.txt txt: ./txt/39212.txt summary: I was having a sitting one day in my own house with a lady friend, named man, and an intimate friend of mine), but the spirit came so many times The old friend whose spirit visited me through Mrs. Fitzgerald had lost little girl with the blue flowers was my spirit child, "Florence," whose follow the advice given her, as it will do harm instead of good." Mrs. Cook added, "I don''t know to what ''Florence'' alludes, of course, but I room and write the name of the friend I loved best in the spirit world "That is likely enough," said Mrs. Volckman; "but if she comes again she placed in my hand, telling me to follow her and look at her medium, spirit said, "Then look round this way, and see what I was like in earth "Mrs. Powles" said, "I cannot come out further into the room to-day. id: 51743 author: McCabe, Joseph title: Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined date: words: 48085.0 sentences: 2662.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/51743.txt txt: ./txt/51743.txt summary: spirit-photographs, lights and music in the dark, messages from the I have seen unpaid mediums, men and women of the world, cheat The "evidence" afforded by mediums like Mr. Vale Owen, and the myriads of quite recent automatic writers and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in effect, recommends two further mediums as wonderful medium by Sir Oliver Lodge, and who was detected and exposed A few months later Herne and Williams, the professional friends of Mrs. Guppy whose spirit-controls had wafted that very voluminous lady as of the living medium, not spirits, does these things, and they talk of a spirits can rap on floors, or on the medium''s chair, let the table be ask us to believe that a medium can get the head of a ghost on a plate, medium and gave sittings to Spiritualists. mediums use in these spirit messages. in any way in communication with spirits is a "medium." The word does id: 61807 author: Page, Charles Grafton title: Psychomancy: Spirit-Rappings and Table-Tippings Exposed date: words: 18816.0 sentences: 787.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/61807.txt txt: ./txt/61807.txt summary: spirit-rappings, or table-tippings, which cannot be explained upon rap out intelligence by sounds, get under tables and tip them over, spirits would not communicate, and the table would not tip, _certainly Do you think that rappings and table-tippings give respectability to in spirit-rapping and table-tipping? in spirit-rapping and table-tipping? tricks of raps and tips to the direct agency of the devil, or evil or table-tippings to electricity, magnetism, or some new fluid, goes of power; but according to this new table-tipping philosophy, we spirits rap nowhere except directly _under the girls, and about their "Are there any spirits present?" was again asked, and the raps came with the facts, that is the right spirit was designated by the raps, the spirits had rapped upon his foot, while sitting at a table. of Rochester spirit-rappings and table-tippings. all along been believing that the spirits tipped the table, and that id: 30540 author: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart title: The Gates Between date: words: 40717.0 sentences: 3018.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/30540.txt txt: ./txt/30540.txt summary: this slender woman whose eyes, like the sword of flame, turned this way forty-six years old, and a Darwinian,--I loved my wife like any common, I had lived to be almost fifty years old, and no person had ever said: wish I''d married a woman with a little wifely spirit!--or else not by which a man must manage his horse, come life or death. "I should not like to be the man who has got to tell Helen." This looking like a spirit, far across the rich colours of the room, her there so little love of wife and child? Thoughts like these came to me so quietly and so naturally, now, that I "I don''t understand it, Doctor," she said, with something like old days on earth, to learn to do, and like any live human baby I was conscious of a wish to turn the great man''s thought id: 36312 author: Putnam, Allen title: Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism date: words: 139598.0 sentences: 6294.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/36312.txt txt: ./txt/36312.txt summary: time and common sense, but cause human physical science to bring within immediate source of the devil''s power to act upon visible man and matter. extent of witchcraft facts, than we generally get from other persons of of Mather''s great personal witchcraft devil of supernal origin, vast spirit action upon persons and things in earth life, he cannot perhaps impersonal force at times might cause supernal knowledge and power infatuation, he could have learned from passing developments that Mrs. Hibbins probably, at times, was essentially a liberated spirit, hearing for at that day faith was common that the devil had not power to accuse a testimony to the general fact that spirit action took sensible effect upon spirits, they might be, at times, able to _sense_ the fact that forceful man or some other spirit, or even some impersonal natural force, gained spirits and the devil; and also between persons whose inner senses were id: 19376 author: Sage, Michael title: Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research date: words: 52742.0 sentences: 3483.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/19376.txt txt: ./txt/19376.txt summary: by Phinuit--Mrs Blodgett''s sitting--Thought-reading introduce Dr Hodgson, the man who has studied Mrs Piper''s case with the When such a man, after long study of Mrs Piper''s phenomena, Professor William James asked Phinuit, during a mediumistic trance, to At this first sitting Mrs Piper felt very strange thrills, and thought speak of Mrs Piper, and as she had never seen a medium, she asked for a At another sitting, Phinuit said to Professor James, who this time was At another sitting Phinuit said to Professor James, "You have just Mrs Piper told Dr Hodgson that Phinuit had often been shown medicinal At one of the first sittings[38] Dr Hodgson had with Mrs Piper, Phinuit question--Is Phinuit a different personality from Mrs Piper, or is he Miss Warner had two sittings with Mrs Piper[58] five years after George Professor Hyslop had once been present at one of Mrs Piper''s sittings, id: 14675 author: Smolnikar, Andrew B. (Andreas Bernardus) title: Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Most important developments regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppresive [sic] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole globe date: words: 78511.0 sentences: 2571.0 pages: flesch: 58.0 cache: ./cache/14675.txt txt: ./txt/14675.txt summary: attend those conventions, and then to commence with power the New Era. Therefore I thought, that a trial should be made, whether the United I did not know at that time, that the spirit of my Lord was preparing me man and the spirit world, they are reading many signs of the times, instead of having received our message of Peace, did all in their power welfare, and having been a great medium of spirit manifestations before opportunity to stop and write in her house, great spirit manifestations our ground, he would have assisted us to open the door for the New Era. But he returned to the sects, from which spirits commenced to manifest great prophecy regarding the peace of nations was published on Easter he instead of having studied my books and examined our message of Peace publishing this book, we read on the 42d page: "The same time a great id: 30403 author: Todd, Thomas Olman title: Hydesville The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism date: words: 10126.0 sentences: 500.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/30403.txt txt: ./txt/30403.txt summary: Hydesville, in the house of the Fox Family, are those by which Modern Mrs. Britten and Mr. Owen were personally acquainted with the Fox family the Spiritual Movement and the history of the poor Fox Family and their The family of Mr. and Mrs. Fox consisted of six children, but at the time of the manifestations the house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Fox house before the Fox family came to live there. investigations, a pedlar called at the house one afternoon whom Mrs. Bell seemed to recognise as an acquaintance. the Bell family, the sounds continued to be heard, not only by Lucretia From the time the Fox family entered the house at Hydesville, about continued to ask it to rap the ages of different persons--naming constantly on the Fox family to enquire if their spirit friends had have caused the rappings first heard by the Fox sisters in 1848 has been id: 11950 author: University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism title: Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert date: words: 63413.0 sentences: 3483.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/11950.txt txt: ./txt/11950.txt summary: the slates had been held by both hands of the Medium for a long time in table; on these hands the Medium places his own and the séance begins. With his right hand the Medium holds the slate up a second slate, and placed it in the hands of the same Medium, with Medium laid her hands upon the table and tried to produce "raps," but slates, after being held for a long while by both hands of the Medium At the time at which the slate was passed to the hand of Mr. Sellers, under the table, the Medium compelled me to sit around in a Light turned up--both slates held by the Medium under the table--no the Medium asked Dr. Leidy to put his hand also upon a slate which the One of the Slate-writing Mediums, with whom we held several séances, Spirit,'' a remark which a long experience with Slate-Writing Mediums has id: 42318 author: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge''s Dream date: words: 56233.0 sentences: 2394.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/42318.txt txt: ./txt/42318.txt summary: ignorant old women; whereas, in his day, they had come to be persons spirit or mind, regarded as in direct opposition to the world of matter. of her own mind at the time; and when frivolous questions are asked, minds of the persons present, although it frequently gives theories in his wife''s mind when she asked the question, were supposed to be stated that those young persons whose hands were on the Planchette knew _I._ True, but the Bible calls the spirits thus communicating, "familiar medium at all; and why spirits can not, as a general rule, communicate foundation of a new thought in your mind by asking, Do you know of any How shall a good and Christian person who knows and has felt the truth not." This Satan was a person ever present in the mind of Christ. faith in spirits; minds which are empty, swept of all spiritual belief, id: 36730 author: Willson, Beckles title: Occultism and Common-Sense date: words: 56212.0 sentences: 3635.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/36730.txt txt: ./txt/36730.txt summary: _In any case, as I said in a letter published in_ The Times, _so long case of spirit apparition or materialisation, coincident dreams, well to bear in mind Mr Andrew Lang''s timely remark, "there is a point closed eyes, of course), and presently he thought he saw "something went to the drawing-room, opened it, and to my astonishment saw came to my room and said: ''I believe my wife died last night, little, and had not seen for a very long time, though he lived other hand observe how many cases we come across where the phenomena After a time, in well-known cases, they appear to need no inducement to mediums purporting to be controlled by spirit power, whose _séances_ are _séances_ were carefully recorded by the medium''s friends, Dr and Mrs after case in the Society''s reports, but in all the time Mrs Piper has id: 36009 author: nan title: A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead date: words: 65397.0 sentences: 3076.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/36009.txt txt: ./txt/36009.txt summary: New Years'' Greetings from many of my dear Spirit Friends and persons think that when the change called death comes and the spirit is hard for spirits to communicate with friends on earth, but often difficult In the evening of the same day I was at a materializing seance at Mrs. Cooper''s, where the following persons besides myself were present: Mr. Cooper, his wife, Mrs. Annie Cooper, the medium; Dr. Joseph R. my dear spirit friend, Mrs. Fredrika Ehrenborg, through the medial power was Madam Ehrenborg''s.") During the trance state of Mrs. Green, the spirit time the two worlds--the spiritual and material--of Mars are so closely NEW YEARS'' GREETINGS FROM MANY OF MY DEAR SPIRIT FRIENDS AND NEAR beautiful spirit communications this coming year, I bid you good day. at the time he came to me upwards of fifty years in spirit life. The spirits, after writing on Mrs. Green''s slate for about an id: 43346 author: nan title: The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2) Being Facts, Records, and Traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc. date: words: 61689.0 sentences: 3214.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/43346.txt txt: ./txt/43346.txt summary: said College, and dead some years ago, a friend of Mr. Shaw''s, in the on the day and at the very hour on which the friends had seen his spirit my dear uncle, how could the spirit of a living man appear?'' said Examples of Apparitions at the time of Death to friends and relations are, The following Account of the Apparition of a murdered man, near the place The following example of the appearance of the spirit of a dying woman to night''s experiences:--''Having entered my room,'' said he, ''I locked and spirit only, who, in fact, appears to live a second life on earth in union places, while "spirit hands" were seen and felt as palpably as mortal phenomena of the appearance of spirit-forms manifested itself. was ''No!'' ''Accursed spirit,'' said I, ''leave the room.'' The table then The following Letter appeared in "The Times" newspaper a few years ago:-- ==== make-pages.sh questions ==== make-pages.sh search ==== make-pages.sh topic modeling corpus Zipping study carrel