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Excerpt from The Watseka Wonder, a Startling and Instructive Psychological Study, and Well Authenticated Instance of Angelic Visitation: A Narrative of the Leading Phenomena Occurring in the Case of Mary Lurancy Vennum The case of a medium in Connecticut hunting up a sea captain for the ca tain's wife, finding and conversing with im in London, giving him his wife's message. And being seen by the captain sufficiently to be recognized by him on his return, while the medium's body, in an apparently dead state, was lying in the shade of an apple tree. Is worthy of consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.