Book Description
This book deals with all aspects of the Victorian occult--the credulity of believers certain that a thing of gauze and muslin was their dead aunt. Behind all the heavy breathing in darkened rooms and the interminable dotty table-rapping lay a whole world of absurd tricksters, well-meaning dolts, credulous gulls and some unforgettable characters.
The Table-Rappers: The Victorians and the Occult FROM THE PUBLISHER
"The Victorian era was one of the most haunted in history. The attempts of science to explain away spiritualism and suppress the supernatural were in vain. The Victorians wanted their seances, ghosts, astrology and witchcraft, and there was a whole host of mediums, tricksters and clairvoyants ready to deliver." Using a wealth of material, Ronald Pearsall uncovers dark corners in the spiritualist movement, examines the locales of hauntings, unveils the common 'tricks of the trade' and, perhaps most surprisingly, reveals the dabbling of Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and even Queen Victoria.
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