Table of Contents is as follows:
Introduction 14
What is Mediumship? 15
Absent Healing 19
The appearance of Sambo (Ted Fricker) 21
The scent of carnations (Ted Fricker) 21
‘The running child’: second party absent healing (Ted Fricker) 22
Twelve million helped & four million cured (Harry Edwards) 23
Being agnostic didn’t prevent the healing (Harry Edwards) 24
V1 bomb destroys healing records but healing continues (Harry Edwards) 25
The ‘Miracle Girl’ (George Chapman) 25
Apports 27
A single red rose from a husband in spirit (Estelle Roberts) 30
A budgerigar as requested by a sitter (Estelle Roberts) 31
Apport from Egypt as requested (Estelle Roberts) 31
A ring apported inside a sitter’s cupped hands (Kathleen Barkel) 33
Bird’s nest (Charles Bailey) 35
A cup of tea (Mrs. Paton) 37
A sunflower complete with clods of earth (Agnes Guppy-Volckman) 38
Asported gifts for children (Minnie Harrison) 38
Apported candy from parties in London (Minnie Harrison) 39
Asported bread and apported letter of thanks (Isa Northage) 39
Birthday present in the kitchen pantry (Minnie Harrison) 40
Arthur Findlay’s match-box apported (John Sloan) 41
Hundreds of apports in a single séance (Keith Rhinehart) 42
Apports by the thousands (Mrs. Maggs) 45
Flower apports (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 46
Matching fern leaves and roses of any colour (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 46
The Ixora Crocata (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 46
The Golden Lily (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 48
Jewels appear then vanish (William Eglinton) 49
Forty butterflies (Agnes Guppy Volckman) 50
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle apports the key to his study (Mrs. Caird Miller) 51
Automatic Writing 53
The After-life explained via automatic writing (William Stead) 55
A word written every few seconds for more than an hour (Geraldine Cummins) 56
The Willett Scripts (Geraldine Cummins) 58
Reading one book while writing another (William Stainton Moses) 59
Automatic writing proves survival after medium dies (William Stainton Moses) 60
Litzt composes again (Rosemary Brown) 62
“Pray for Hugh Lane” (Hester Dowden) 62
“Oscar Wilde is not dead” (Hester Dowden) 63
Pearl tie-pin Case (Hester Smith and Geraldine Cummins) 64
Housewife writes in an archaic Anglo-Saxon language (Pearl Curran) 65
Automatist aids in archeological excavations (John Allan Bartlett) 67
Automatic writing and trance speaking simultaneously (Leonora Piper) 68
Writing 4600 lines in 72 hours (Achsa W. Sprague) 69
Writing in 28 Languages (Carlos Mirabelli) 70
458 published books, more than 50 million copies sold (‘Chico’ Xavier) 70
Book Tests 72
‘Bim’, the beetle and the book (Gladys Leonard) 75
Colonel Beadon tells his wife about his grave (Gladys Leonard) 76
Spirit success 36%: Random physical choice 4.7% (Gladys Leonard) 77
The maidservant shifted the books (Gladys Leonard) 78
His name, his wife’s name & age in next day’s paper (Gladys Leonard) 79
Cross-correspondence Tests 81
Dog Watch (Margery Crandon and Sary Litzelman) 85
Water Melon (Margery Crandon and Sary Litzelman) 86
‘No one stops to kick a dead horse’ (Margery Crandon, George Valiantine, Dr Hardwicke, and Sarah Litzelmann) 87
The case of Raymond (Mrs. Leonard and Alfred Vout Peters) 88
The Palm Sunday Case (Margaret Verrall, Alice Fleming, Helen Verrall, Winifred Coombe-Tennant and Leonora Piper) 89
Cross correspondence in Chinese (Margery Crandon & Dr H. Hardwicke) 90
Direct Voice 91
Yossel/Yosha (Mrs. E. Roberts Johnson) 94
Séance of the Century (William Cartheuser) 96
The return of Bessy Manning (Estelle Roberts) 100
Mystery of the buried crosses (Sophia Williams) 102
The séance in the garden (Mollie Perriman) 104
The séance that saved a life (Mollie Perriman) 105
Violin asked for and played (Isa Northage) 105
Premature child speaks to father and asks for a name (Isa Northage) 106
Direct voice with the medium’s pulse stopped (Mona v der Watt) 107
Direct voice 1000 miles away from the medium (Mona van der Watt) 108
Direct voice in daylight during a tea party (related by Sylvia Barbanell) 108
Return of Sir Henry Segrave (Estelle Roberts) 109
Public Direct voice séances for up to 500 at a time (Estelle Roberts) 110
Boxed up, tied up, sealed up, gagged, bound and held, and still the voices came (Leslie Flint) 110
Flint rebuts the skeptics (Leslie Flint) 111
Lawyer identifies judge’s voice (Leslie Flint) 112
Direct voice every week for 14 years (Emily French) 112
Arthur Findlay convinced after hearing his father’s voice (John Sloan) 113
The return of Eric Saunders (John Sloan) 117
Direct voice talks to Feda during trance sitting (Gladys Leonard) 119
Specific evidence with no vague or general statements (Leslie Flint) 121
The return of the medium who was responsible for the death of
Sherlock Holmes (Gladys Mallaburn) 122
Emma Hardinge Britten 124
The steamer Pacific (Emma Hardinge Britten) 126
He recognised his General’s voice (Emma Hardinge Britten) 128
Principles of Spiritualism (Emma Hardinge Britten) 129
Threatened with lynching (Emma Hardinge Britten) 129
Fox Sisters 131
31st March 1848 (Kate and Margaret Fox) 132
The first public demonstration of mediumship (Kate & Margaret Fox) 133
Spiritualism predicted on 31st March 1848 (Andrew Jackson Davis) 134
Rapping mediums (Leah & Kate Fox) 134
Spirit lights (Leah Fox) 136
One of the earliest instances of absent healing (Leah Fox) 137
The Fox Sisters and their public mediumship (Kate and Margaret Fox) 137
Four hundred séances (Kate Fox) 138
The best test, rapping and physical medium I have ever met (Leah Fox) 140
Inspirational Trance Speaking 141
First inspirational speech at age six (Cora Scott Richmond) 143
Emancipation Proclamation (Henrietta ‘Nettie’ Colburn Maynard) 144
‘The Preaching Woman’ (Achsa White Sprague) 147
Trance address that leaves a mark on medium (Mona van der Watt) 148
‘Power’ and the swinging microphone (Louisa Anne Meurig Morris) 148
‘Power’ overcomes technical difficulties (Louisa Anne Meurig Morris) 149
Books dictated by an illiterate while in trance (Andrew Jackson Davis) 150
Levitation 152
Levitating objects rapping out answers (D. D. Home) 154
Table levitates before and after séance (Mr. & Mrs. L. R. Hodges) 154
Flying trumpet and levitating table (Kathleen Goliger) 155
Table tilts in a restaurant (Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon) 155
The many levitations of Daniel Dunglas Home (D. D. Home) 156
Out one window and in by another (D. D. Home) 157
Dancing piano with President Lincoln (Mrs. Belle Miller) 160
Squadron mates lift medium up as a prank (Albert Best) 161
Levitating dinner table and piano (Florence and Katie Cook) 161
Materialization 163
Interlocking rings of different types of wood (Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon) 166
Ectoplasm being reabsorbed by the medium (Helen Duncan) 167
Billet dematerializes (Helen Duncan for Estelle Roberts) 168
A buzzard, lion, ape-man and weasel materialize (Franek Kluski) 170
Materialized child eats half a banana (Helen Duncan) 172
Father materializes and shows a scar he had in life (Keith Rhinehart) 173
Husband kisses his beloved wife again (Minnie Harrison) 174
Pieces of ectoplasm cut from Aunt Agg’s robes (Minnie Harrison) 176
Son appears grown up in the spirit world and father materializes to apologize (Minnie Harrison) 178
Hair cut from Archael (Estelle Roberts) 179
A mound of ectoplasm like a snow bank (Ethel Post-Parrish) 181
Materialized man brings entranced medium from cabinet in séance full of family reunions (Ethel Post-Parrish) 182
Doctor takes pulse of materialized spirit (Minnie Harrison) 184
Materialized form displays how ectoplasm performs miracles by the power of thought (Alec Harris) 185
Dematerializing spirit (Alec Harris) 186
Spirit materializes to thank medium who proved his survival (Alec Harris) 187
“Hit me in the chest” (Alec Harris) 187
Mother materializes and tells her daughter to do the work (Lilian Bailey) 189
Feathers pulled from a materialized parrot (Isa Northage) 190
Two materialized people are later printed (William Eglinton) 190
Private & Investigative Sittings 192
Cleric convinced of Bishop’s return (Helen Hughes) 193
Molly Ross (Geraldine Cummins) 194
Mrs. Piper becomes William James’ ‘White Crow’ (Leonora Piper) 195
77% of evidence true over 40 years of research (Leonora Piper) 197
Hodgson is so convinced he can hardly wait to die (Leonora Piper) 198
A son gives the medium his family’s names (Helen Hughes) 199
Professor Hyslop is converted (Leonora Piper) 199
Proxy Sittings 203
Husband communicates in German, provides evidence (Minnie Soule) 204
The Case of Bobby Newlove (Gladys Osbourne Leonard) 206
Public Demonstrations of Mediumship 209
Sheer unflappable tenacity (Estelle Roberts) 214
Advancing single file up the aisle (E. A. Cannock) 215
Rotten Park Road (Tom Tyrell) 216
Mediumship blindfolded with billets (Thomas John ‘Jack’ Kelly) 217
The correct grave, socks, and a baby mitten (Helen Hughes) 219
Fabled demonstration within the British parliament (Estelle Roberts and Helen Hughes) 219
A son who didn’t forget his birthday & a mother who greets both her daughter and son (Cecil Cook at Carnegie Hall) 221
Twenty appearances at the Royal Albert Hall (Estelle Roberts) 223
Fannie Higginson’s mother makes contact only an hour after her passing (Annie Brittain) 224
Names, names, names on 100th anniversary of the Hydesville rappings (Helen Hughes and Estelle Roberts at Royal Albert Hall) 225
Edith Proctor and Mrs. Black, double recipients (Helen Hughes) 227
A brother returns (Estelle Roberts as told by Ivy Northage) 228
Exact names and other evidence (Helen Hughes) 230
Return of an abducted boy (Mona van der Watt) 231
Public demonstration in trance (Mona van der Watt) 233
Blindfold public demonstration with billets (Keith Rhinehart) 234
Billet reading with spirit art (Keith Rhinehart) 235
Spirit Lights 236
Spirit light from the ectoplasm of a cat (‘Margery’ Crandon) 237
Medium’s wife illuminates a lost handkerchief (John Sloan) 238
Solid luminous light upon his moustache (Ada Besinnet) 238
One inch spirit lights (Minnie Harrison) 238
Lights like stars and a comet (Franek Kluski) 239
Spiritual Healing 241
The ectoplasmic humerus (William Lilley) 242
Doctor demands to know what was done to his patient (Olga Worrel) 243
A healing that built a Temple (Thomas John ‘Jack’ Kelly) 244
A skeptic assists in a public demonstration of healing (Harry Edwards) 245
Message of health confirmed at 6:45 pm (Margaret Lyon) 246
Unconditional exemption from wartime service (William Lilley) 247
So many diagnoses that stenographers worked in shifts (William Lilley) 251
Six whiskies for six days (Ted Fricker) 252
250 healings on a Saturday morning (Ted Fricker) 253
He swallowed a safety pin and advice was ignored (Margaret Lyon) 253
Cured of polio at a public demonstration: (Harry Edwards) 254
Spirit doctor materializes, touches, and heals patient (Isa Northage) 255
The Light that heals (Alec Harris) 255
The ‘Miracle Girl’, continued (George Chapman) 257
Teleportation 261
Accounts of teleportation (Agnes Guppy, Charles Williams & Frank Herne) 263
In her morning gown and bedroom slippers (Agnes Guppy with Frank Herne & Charles Williams) 263
Disappeared from the séance room (Mr Henderson) 265
Teleportation from a séance room (Mr. C. V. Miller) 265
Two incidences of teleportation (Carlos Mirabelli) 266
Disappeared from a locked and sealed room (Franek Kluski) 266
Transported medium asks “Haven’t you finished yet?” (Alec Harris) 267
Temperature changes 269
Temperature changes during séances (Stella Cranshaw, ‘Stella C.) 271
Trance Sittings 273
188 facts given at two consecutive sittings to Arthur Findlay (Bertha Harris and Mrs. Agnes Abbott) 274
Communicators use humorous code (Evan Powell) 277
The R-101 disaster (Eileen Garrett) 278
Secret Royal trance sitting while blindfolded (Lilian Bailey) 279
John, the monk, returns to Arnold Clare (medium unknown) 282
‘Faunus’ message for Oliver Lodge (Leonora Evelina Simonds Piper) 282
Raymond provides ample evidence of his survival (Mrs. Leonard & Alfred Vout Peters) 284
Medium’s hand marked with communicator’s bullet wound (Isa Northage) 288
Bishop James Albert Pike and his son Jim (Ena Twigg) 289
Verification of Spirit Guides 291
The appearance of Sambo (Ted Fricker) 292
Spirit guide tells of book written about him (Evan Powell) 293
The return of Dr William Lang (George Chapman) 293
Only nineteen but she became a spirit guide (Isa Northage) 294
“My son was an officer and a gentleman. He never dabbled in Spiritualism.” (Lilian Bailey) 295
“Nursing Barbara’s doll” (Lilian Bailey) 297
Weight change during phenomena 299
Weight loss recorded after séance (Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon) 300
Weight loss during séance (Ethel Post-Parrish) 300
Weight loss after apports (Thomas Lynn) 302
Weight gain during table levitation (Kathleen Goliger) 302
Xenoglossy & Xenography 304
The first Xenoglossic medium in Modern Spiritualism (Laura Edmonds) 306
Speaking and writing in a host of languages (Carlos Mirabelli) 307
Spirit doctors speak in languages unknown to healer (William Lilley) 308
Trance sitting done in French (Leonora Piper) 308
Xenography from Patience Worth (Pearl Curran) 309
Bibliography 310
Index 315
Diagram showing identity of mediums, researchers and spirits in the images on the front cover 318
Illustrations
Ixora Crocata 47
The golden lily 49
Apparition Medianimique 191
What is Mediumship? 15
Absent Healing 19
The appearance of Sambo (Ted Fricker) 21
The scent of carnations (Ted Fricker) 21
‘The running child’: second party absent healing (Ted Fricker) 22
Twelve million helped & four million cured (Harry Edwards) 23
Being agnostic didn’t prevent the healing (Harry Edwards) 24
V1 bomb destroys healing records but healing continues (Harry Edwards) 25
The ‘Miracle Girl’ (George Chapman) 25
Apports 27
A single red rose from a husband in spirit (Estelle Roberts) 30
A budgerigar as requested by a sitter (Estelle Roberts) 31
Apport from Egypt as requested (Estelle Roberts) 31
A ring apported inside a sitter’s cupped hands (Kathleen Barkel) 33
Bird’s nest (Charles Bailey) 35
A cup of tea (Mrs. Paton) 37
A sunflower complete with clods of earth (Agnes Guppy-Volckman) 38
Asported gifts for children (Minnie Harrison) 38
Apported candy from parties in London (Minnie Harrison) 39
Asported bread and apported letter of thanks (Isa Northage) 39
Birthday present in the kitchen pantry (Minnie Harrison) 40
Arthur Findlay’s match-box apported (John Sloan) 41
Hundreds of apports in a single séance (Keith Rhinehart) 42
Apports by the thousands (Mrs. Maggs) 45
Flower apports (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 46
Matching fern leaves and roses of any colour (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 46
The Ixora Crocata (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 46
The Golden Lily (Madame d’Esperance – Elizabeth Hope) 48
Jewels appear then vanish (William Eglinton) 49
Forty butterflies (Agnes Guppy Volckman) 50
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle apports the key to his study (Mrs. Caird Miller) 51
Automatic Writing 53
The After-life explained via automatic writing (William Stead) 55
A word written every few seconds for more than an hour (Geraldine Cummins) 56
The Willett Scripts (Geraldine Cummins) 58
Reading one book while writing another (William Stainton Moses) 59
Automatic writing proves survival after medium dies (William Stainton Moses) 60
Litzt composes again (Rosemary Brown) 62
“Pray for Hugh Lane” (Hester Dowden) 62
“Oscar Wilde is not dead” (Hester Dowden) 63
Pearl tie-pin Case (Hester Smith and Geraldine Cummins) 64
Housewife writes in an archaic Anglo-Saxon language (Pearl Curran) 65
Automatist aids in archeological excavations (John Allan Bartlett) 67
Automatic writing and trance speaking simultaneously (Leonora Piper) 68
Writing 4600 lines in 72 hours (Achsa W. Sprague) 69
Writing in 28 Languages (Carlos Mirabelli) 70
458 published books, more than 50 million copies sold (‘Chico’ Xavier) 70
Book Tests 72
‘Bim’, the beetle and the book (Gladys Leonard) 75
Colonel Beadon tells his wife about his grave (Gladys Leonard) 76
Spirit success 36%: Random physical choice 4.7% (Gladys Leonard) 77
The maidservant shifted the books (Gladys Leonard) 78
His name, his wife’s name & age in next day’s paper (Gladys Leonard) 79
Cross-correspondence Tests 81
Dog Watch (Margery Crandon and Sary Litzelman) 85
Water Melon (Margery Crandon and Sary Litzelman) 86
‘No one stops to kick a dead horse’ (Margery Crandon, George Valiantine, Dr Hardwicke, and Sarah Litzelmann) 87
The case of Raymond (Mrs. Leonard and Alfred Vout Peters) 88
The Palm Sunday Case (Margaret Verrall, Alice Fleming, Helen Verrall, Winifred Coombe-Tennant and Leonora Piper) 89
Cross correspondence in Chinese (Margery Crandon & Dr H. Hardwicke) 90
Direct Voice 91
Yossel/Yosha (Mrs. E. Roberts Johnson) 94
Séance of the Century (William Cartheuser) 96
The return of Bessy Manning (Estelle Roberts) 100
Mystery of the buried crosses (Sophia Williams) 102
The séance in the garden (Mollie Perriman) 104
The séance that saved a life (Mollie Perriman) 105
Violin asked for and played (Isa Northage) 105
Premature child speaks to father and asks for a name (Isa Northage) 106
Direct voice with the medium’s pulse stopped (Mona v der Watt) 107
Direct voice 1000 miles away from the medium (Mona van der Watt) 108
Direct voice in daylight during a tea party (related by Sylvia Barbanell) 108
Return of Sir Henry Segrave (Estelle Roberts) 109
Public Direct voice séances for up to 500 at a time (Estelle Roberts) 110
Boxed up, tied up, sealed up, gagged, bound and held, and still the voices came (Leslie Flint) 110
Flint rebuts the skeptics (Leslie Flint) 111
Lawyer identifies judge’s voice (Leslie Flint) 112
Direct voice every week for 14 years (Emily French) 112
Arthur Findlay convinced after hearing his father’s voice (John Sloan) 113
The return of Eric Saunders (John Sloan) 117
Direct voice talks to Feda during trance sitting (Gladys Leonard) 119
Specific evidence with no vague or general statements (Leslie Flint) 121
The return of the medium who was responsible for the death of
Sherlock Holmes (Gladys Mallaburn) 122
Emma Hardinge Britten 124
The steamer Pacific (Emma Hardinge Britten) 126
He recognised his General’s voice (Emma Hardinge Britten) 128
Principles of Spiritualism (Emma Hardinge Britten) 129
Threatened with lynching (Emma Hardinge Britten) 129
Fox Sisters 131
31st March 1848 (Kate and Margaret Fox) 132
The first public demonstration of mediumship (Kate & Margaret Fox) 133
Spiritualism predicted on 31st March 1848 (Andrew Jackson Davis) 134
Rapping mediums (Leah & Kate Fox) 134
Spirit lights (Leah Fox) 136
One of the earliest instances of absent healing (Leah Fox) 137
The Fox Sisters and their public mediumship (Kate and Margaret Fox) 137
Four hundred séances (Kate Fox) 138
The best test, rapping and physical medium I have ever met (Leah Fox) 140
Inspirational Trance Speaking 141
First inspirational speech at age six (Cora Scott Richmond) 143
Emancipation Proclamation (Henrietta ‘Nettie’ Colburn Maynard) 144
‘The Preaching Woman’ (Achsa White Sprague) 147
Trance address that leaves a mark on medium (Mona van der Watt) 148
‘Power’ and the swinging microphone (Louisa Anne Meurig Morris) 148
‘Power’ overcomes technical difficulties (Louisa Anne Meurig Morris) 149
Books dictated by an illiterate while in trance (Andrew Jackson Davis) 150
Levitation 152
Levitating objects rapping out answers (D. D. Home) 154
Table levitates before and after séance (Mr. & Mrs. L. R. Hodges) 154
Flying trumpet and levitating table (Kathleen Goliger) 155
Table tilts in a restaurant (Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon) 155
The many levitations of Daniel Dunglas Home (D. D. Home) 156
Out one window and in by another (D. D. Home) 157
Dancing piano with President Lincoln (Mrs. Belle Miller) 160
Squadron mates lift medium up as a prank (Albert Best) 161
Levitating dinner table and piano (Florence and Katie Cook) 161
Materialization 163
Interlocking rings of different types of wood (Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon) 166
Ectoplasm being reabsorbed by the medium (Helen Duncan) 167
Billet dematerializes (Helen Duncan for Estelle Roberts) 168
A buzzard, lion, ape-man and weasel materialize (Franek Kluski) 170
Materialized child eats half a banana (Helen Duncan) 172
Father materializes and shows a scar he had in life (Keith Rhinehart) 173
Husband kisses his beloved wife again (Minnie Harrison) 174
Pieces of ectoplasm cut from Aunt Agg’s robes (Minnie Harrison) 176
Son appears grown up in the spirit world and father materializes to apologize (Minnie Harrison) 178
Hair cut from Archael (Estelle Roberts) 179
A mound of ectoplasm like a snow bank (Ethel Post-Parrish) 181
Materialized man brings entranced medium from cabinet in séance full of family reunions (Ethel Post-Parrish) 182
Doctor takes pulse of materialized spirit (Minnie Harrison) 184
Materialized form displays how ectoplasm performs miracles by the power of thought (Alec Harris) 185
Dematerializing spirit (Alec Harris) 186
Spirit materializes to thank medium who proved his survival (Alec Harris) 187
“Hit me in the chest” (Alec Harris) 187
Mother materializes and tells her daughter to do the work (Lilian Bailey) 189
Feathers pulled from a materialized parrot (Isa Northage) 190
Two materialized people are later printed (William Eglinton) 190
Private & Investigative Sittings 192
Cleric convinced of Bishop’s return (Helen Hughes) 193
Molly Ross (Geraldine Cummins) 194
Mrs. Piper becomes William James’ ‘White Crow’ (Leonora Piper) 195
77% of evidence true over 40 years of research (Leonora Piper) 197
Hodgson is so convinced he can hardly wait to die (Leonora Piper) 198
A son gives the medium his family’s names (Helen Hughes) 199
Professor Hyslop is converted (Leonora Piper) 199
Proxy Sittings 203
Husband communicates in German, provides evidence (Minnie Soule) 204
The Case of Bobby Newlove (Gladys Osbourne Leonard) 206
Public Demonstrations of Mediumship 209
Sheer unflappable tenacity (Estelle Roberts) 214
Advancing single file up the aisle (E. A. Cannock) 215
Rotten Park Road (Tom Tyrell) 216
Mediumship blindfolded with billets (Thomas John ‘Jack’ Kelly) 217
The correct grave, socks, and a baby mitten (Helen Hughes) 219
Fabled demonstration within the British parliament (Estelle Roberts and Helen Hughes) 219
A son who didn’t forget his birthday & a mother who greets both her daughter and son (Cecil Cook at Carnegie Hall) 221
Twenty appearances at the Royal Albert Hall (Estelle Roberts) 223
Fannie Higginson’s mother makes contact only an hour after her passing (Annie Brittain) 224
Names, names, names on 100th anniversary of the Hydesville rappings (Helen Hughes and Estelle Roberts at Royal Albert Hall) 225
Edith Proctor and Mrs. Black, double recipients (Helen Hughes) 227
A brother returns (Estelle Roberts as told by Ivy Northage) 228
Exact names and other evidence (Helen Hughes) 230
Return of an abducted boy (Mona van der Watt) 231
Public demonstration in trance (Mona van der Watt) 233
Blindfold public demonstration with billets (Keith Rhinehart) 234
Billet reading with spirit art (Keith Rhinehart) 235
Spirit Lights 236
Spirit light from the ectoplasm of a cat (‘Margery’ Crandon) 237
Medium’s wife illuminates a lost handkerchief (John Sloan) 238
Solid luminous light upon his moustache (Ada Besinnet) 238
One inch spirit lights (Minnie Harrison) 238
Lights like stars and a comet (Franek Kluski) 239
Spiritual Healing 241
The ectoplasmic humerus (William Lilley) 242
Doctor demands to know what was done to his patient (Olga Worrel) 243
A healing that built a Temple (Thomas John ‘Jack’ Kelly) 244
A skeptic assists in a public demonstration of healing (Harry Edwards) 245
Message of health confirmed at 6:45 pm (Margaret Lyon) 246
Unconditional exemption from wartime service (William Lilley) 247
So many diagnoses that stenographers worked in shifts (William Lilley) 251
Six whiskies for six days (Ted Fricker) 252
250 healings on a Saturday morning (Ted Fricker) 253
He swallowed a safety pin and advice was ignored (Margaret Lyon) 253
Cured of polio at a public demonstration: (Harry Edwards) 254
Spirit doctor materializes, touches, and heals patient (Isa Northage) 255
The Light that heals (Alec Harris) 255
The ‘Miracle Girl’, continued (George Chapman) 257
Teleportation 261
Accounts of teleportation (Agnes Guppy, Charles Williams & Frank Herne) 263
In her morning gown and bedroom slippers (Agnes Guppy with Frank Herne & Charles Williams) 263
Disappeared from the séance room (Mr Henderson) 265
Teleportation from a séance room (Mr. C. V. Miller) 265
Two incidences of teleportation (Carlos Mirabelli) 266
Disappeared from a locked and sealed room (Franek Kluski) 266
Transported medium asks “Haven’t you finished yet?” (Alec Harris) 267
Temperature changes 269
Temperature changes during séances (Stella Cranshaw, ‘Stella C.) 271
Trance Sittings 273
188 facts given at two consecutive sittings to Arthur Findlay (Bertha Harris and Mrs. Agnes Abbott) 274
Communicators use humorous code (Evan Powell) 277
The R-101 disaster (Eileen Garrett) 278
Secret Royal trance sitting while blindfolded (Lilian Bailey) 279
John, the monk, returns to Arnold Clare (medium unknown) 282
‘Faunus’ message for Oliver Lodge (Leonora Evelina Simonds Piper) 282
Raymond provides ample evidence of his survival (Mrs. Leonard & Alfred Vout Peters) 284
Medium’s hand marked with communicator’s bullet wound (Isa Northage) 288
Bishop James Albert Pike and his son Jim (Ena Twigg) 289
Verification of Spirit Guides 291
The appearance of Sambo (Ted Fricker) 292
Spirit guide tells of book written about him (Evan Powell) 293
The return of Dr William Lang (George Chapman) 293
Only nineteen but she became a spirit guide (Isa Northage) 294
“My son was an officer and a gentleman. He never dabbled in Spiritualism.” (Lilian Bailey) 295
“Nursing Barbara’s doll” (Lilian Bailey) 297
Weight change during phenomena 299
Weight loss recorded after séance (Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon) 300
Weight loss during séance (Ethel Post-Parrish) 300
Weight loss after apports (Thomas Lynn) 302
Weight gain during table levitation (Kathleen Goliger) 302
Xenoglossy & Xenography 304
The first Xenoglossic medium in Modern Spiritualism (Laura Edmonds) 306
Speaking and writing in a host of languages (Carlos Mirabelli) 307
Spirit doctors speak in languages unknown to healer (William Lilley) 308
Trance sitting done in French (Leonora Piper) 308
Xenography from Patience Worth (Pearl Curran) 309
Bibliography 310
Index 315
Diagram showing identity of mediums, researchers and spirits in the images on the front cover 318
Illustrations
Ixora Crocata 47
The golden lily 49
Apparition Medianimique 191
