Identifier: hourswithghostso00evan (find matches)
Title: Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Evans, Henry Ridgely, 1861-1949 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891 Spiritualism Theosophy
Publisher: Chicago : Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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novel,A Strange Story. Bulwer was an ardent believerin the supernatural and Home spent many daysat Knebworth amid a select coterie of ghost-seers.The famous novelist relates that as Home sat withhim in the library of Knebworth, conversing uponpolitics, social matters, books or other chance topics, thechairs rocked and the tables were suspended in mid-air. When the medium was requested to exert his powerand found himself in condition, it is alleged, he wouldrise and float about the room. This in Spiritualistic par-lance is termed levitation. At Knebworth and otherplaces, some of the most prominent people of the dayclaim to have seen Home lift himself up and sail tran-quilly out of a window, around the house, and come inby another window. The Earl of Dunraven told many stories equallystrange of performances that were given in his presence.The Earl declared that he had many times seen Homeelongate and shorten his body, and cause the closedpiano to play by putting his fingers on the lid.
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FIG. 7—HOME AT THE TUILEKIES, D. D. HOME. 99 In the autumn of 1855 the famous medium went toFlorence; there, also, the spirit manifestations securedhim the entree into the best society of the old Italian city.In his memoirs he speaks of an incident occurringthrough his mediumship, at a seance given in Florence:Upon one occasion, while the Countess C— was seatedat one of Erards grand-action pianos, it rose and bal-anced itself in the air, during the whole time she wasplaying. An English lady, resident at Florence, in asupposed haunted house, procured the services of Hometo exorcise the ghost. They sat at a table in the sitting-room, and raps were heard proceeding from that pieceof furniture, and rustling sounds in the room as of a per-son moving about in a heavy garment. The spirit beingadjured in the name of the Holy Trinity to leave thepremises, the demonstrations ceased. In February, 1856, the medium joined the retinue ofCount B—, a Polish nobleman, and went to Naples withhis

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