about spiritism, as it is called communion with the spirits of the dead, and wrote a lot of interesting, and a lot of fun.Often this hobby are not serious, depicting spiritualists as a company of strange people going into a dark room to turn the tables and saucer causing the spirit of Napoleon.Let's try to briefly tell you about this phenomenon.
In 1848, living in New York Fox family, consisting of husband, wife and two daughters, was surprised by a mysterious knock at their home.One of the daughters, named Kate, surmised that the sounds produced by some intelligent being.By the mysterious creature consultation (it was supposed to respond by tapping).It was understood that one blow will mean "no" three hits - "yes," and so on.Answer There corresponded to ask questions.Among them, for example, we learned that knock the living soul of the murdered peddler deals.Spirit continued to respond and when Fox asks his sister left home and moved in with her married sister.
news of this extraordinary phenomenon spread rapidly across America and has generated craze "spirits."People with whom talked spirits became known as "medium" or "intermediaries".It was argued that such a dialogue requires a special talent or inclination to a particular mental state.Soon there were professional mediums, rallied around him a huge amount of "spiritualistic circles."
When the spirits began to occur different actions: the table is lifted and rotated at imposing on him the hands of the medium;writing and drawing medium's hand;automatic conversation in a trance.These belong to the knock, moving furniture, play musical instruments, the appearance of light, voices, music, sounds, human hands, people or whole pieces, written words and drawings, photographs and other forms of human, unleashing knots.
From America to Europe, spiritualism was moved in 1852 a professional medium Gaiden.In Russia the first seances were built in the early 70-ies famous medium Hume.It put a lot of experiments with the participation of renowned professors to expose mediums, some of them actually turned out to be charlatans, but to prove that spiritualism is just a set of tricks did not succeed.
Whatever it was, the fascination with spiritualism could not stop.People walked in circles to communicate with dead relatives, ask them about life after death, and even find out ... inheritance disputes.Gradually mediums developed a set of rules to ensure the correct call of the spirit (often flocked to the call of outsiders, some of which were quite dangerous).
Sometimes spirits through mediums predicting various historical events, some of the predictions came true.For example, the death of "Titanic" in a different form predicted: in 1897, Morgan Robertson, in 1911 William John Warner (Hare), Anton Johansson in 1912.
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