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9781137378941
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Raising spirits :
[Book]
how a Conjuror's Tale was transmitted across the Enlightenment
Jonathan Barry.
[Basingstoke?]
Palgrave
2013. ©2013
(viii, 146 pages) : illustration
Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
Thomas Perks and his Circle --;Arthur Bedford and his Circle --;The Second Phase: Bristol and London 1760-79 --;Evangelical Publishing --;Astrologers --;The Nineteenth Century: Medicine, Spiritualism and Christianity.
Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Spiritualism -- Great Britain -- History.
Spiritualism.
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Jonathan Barry.
Jonathan Barry
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