Spiritualist

The origin of mediumship is usually linked to the Fox sisters at Hydesville, New York in 1848, but believers date the unofficial beginning of Modern American Spiritualism to the Shakers and similar religious groups. By 1853 the movement had reached San Francisco and London, and by 1860 was worldwide. The Fox family remained very active in Spiritualism for many years. Other notable Spiritualists were Mercy Cadwallader, who became a sort of missionary for the movement, and Emma Hardinge Britten, who wrote many books on mediumship and its place in American popular and religious culture.

Books

Books list a references by Corinda in Step Nine, Mediumistic Stunts, in his Thirteen Steps to Mentalism were:

• Searchlight on Psychical Research by Joseph Rinn
• Modern Spiritualism by Frank Podmore
• The Drama of Life After Death by George Lawton
• Behind the Scenes With the Mediums by David Abbott (1907)
• Mediumship for Magicians by Corinda
• The Dead Do Not Talk by Julian Proskauer (1946)
• Spirits in the House by Thomas Chislett (1949)
• "The Fraudulent Mediums Act" of 1951 (a law in England and Wales which prohibited a person from claiming to be a psychic, medium, or other spiritualist while attempting to deceive and to make money from the deception.)

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