Louise Lateau of Bois D'Haine, Tr. [By E. Mackey and C.J. Bowen] Ed. By J.S. Northcote

Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1873 edition. Estratto: ...may result from it' (Diet. de Med., le fid. 1825, t. xiii.). I Spiritism, which is nothing but the evoking of spirits," has recently made its appearance in two ways--spirit-rapping and table-turning. The account of the appearance of spirit-rapping in America is thus related by some of the initiated: In 1846, Michael Welckmann, who was living in the village of Hydesville, in the county of Wagne, in the United States, heard one evening some one knock at the door of his house. He went to open it, but saw no one. These strange noises were unceasingly repeated, upon which Welckmann left the house. After him it was occupied by a family of the name of Fox, which consisted of the father, mother, and two young girls--Catherine, aged fourteen, and Margaret, who was twelve. The unusual noises which had determined Welckmann to leave the house were soon renewed. At one time it was like the blow of a hammer on the door, at another time like the cracking of a whip. The new occupants of the house were at first alarmed, but at last became accustomed to these strange disturbances; and one night, in the month of March 1848, Mrs. Fox ventured to question the authors of these mysterious knocks: With regard to the mind, the dangers are more serious still. Man can never transgress with impunity the rules which Providence has laid down for the exercise of his faculties. It would take me too long were I to relate the history of all the crimes and suicides caused by magnetism and spiritism. Victor Hennequin, one of the apostles of the superstition of spirit-rapping in Europe, wrote one day to a journal of the sect to say that his wife, whom he had employed in his operations, had been so..."