This week, Jamie goes to a table tipping class — a Spiritualist tradition that uses tables to connect people with their dead. Elsewhere in the past, the Fox sisters go on tour, where the skeptics put increasing pressure on the teenagers to meet their hype.
Further Reading:
Talking to the Dead, Barbara Weisberg
Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances by Lisa Morton
The Road to Seneca Falls by Judith Wellman
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
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Introducing: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
9: Waiting for the Spirit in the Cape
8: The Boys Are Fighting (Over Crotch Goo and Ghosts): Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini
7: The Fool's Golden Rule (Espiritismo and Spiritual Churches)
6: The Legend of Seneca the Spirit Guide (or: Colonizer, Please)
5: Apples, The Manipulator, and The Curse of Spiritualism
4: Four Roads to Cassadaga
2: No Proof is Necessary, No Proof is Sufficient
1: Not a Cult
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