Mysterious Planchette
A survey of curious devices for speaking to the dead.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Talking Tables, March 1853: Pack's "Medium Table"
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Marc and I have undergone the same tactic we recently used in mapping out the evolution of spirit trumpet mediums and mediumship, and decid...
Sunday, February 2, 2014
The First Three, Part 3: Hornung's "Emanulector"
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This is all new. While the American press was debating the merits and drawbacks of the first two alphabetic spirit communication invention...
Monday, January 27, 2014
The First Three, Part 2: Pease's "Spiritual Telegraph Dial"
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I've had a long-lingering ambition: to digitize the entire 1852-1860 run of the Spiritual Telegraph --the US one--as a contribution to t...
Sunday, January 19, 2014
The First Three, Part 1: Wagner's "Psychograph"
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There's a quote about the planchette's invention that's rather grown on me, as it so perfectly recognizes the tedious boredom th...
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Don't Knock It 'til You've Tried It: Earliest Origins of Table-Rapping
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I posed the most rudimentary of questions to Marc Demarest early last evening: " Where does table-tipping--and more specifically tabl...
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