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44349	Evans, Henry Ridgely	Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy			.txt	text/plain	54183	3235	71	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/44349.txt	./txt/44349.txt