Servants of the Supernatural

By: Antonio Melechi

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Hardcover | 6 March 2008

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The seance assumed myriad forms - from entranced maids lecturing on theology to clairvoyants giving notice of stolen property, rapped-out messages from the spirit world and ghostly shapes appearing from dark cabinets. Mediums, psychics and somnambulists were investigated by amateur sleuths and by scientists such as Faraday and Darwin; their performances imitated and exposed by magicians, denounced by clerics and satirised in the press. Yet the popularity of the seance endured - and does so to this day.
Among the broad gallery of Victorians who found spiritual succour in the mysteries and wonders of the seance are quacks, bluffers and rogues, but also respected physicians such as Dr John Elliotson, an early champion of mesmerism, aristocrats and writers as real and rational as Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle. Servants of the Supernatural tells their story.

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"Lustrous . . . the heyday of the Victorian seance in all its table-trembling, tambourine-tapping glory." --"Word Magazine"

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List of illustrations
Introduction: A Seance for Sceptics	p. 1
Bodies Electric	p. 7
Magnetic Mockeries	p. 35
London Trance	p. 75
'Lecture Mania'	p. 99
The Infidel in Petticoats	p. 121
News from Nowhere	p. 137
Tea and Table Moving	p. 161
Dark Employments	p. 179
'Conjurers in Disguise'	p. 207
Mental Notes	p. 233
Epilogue	p. 261
Select Bibliography	p. 267
Acknowledgements	p. 277
Index	p. 279
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