Fox sisters

Fox Sisters of NY. Originators of Spiritualism. These are the "Trench Sisters" described in Rosemary's Baby

Here is a newspaper article from 1897 commemorating the Fox Sisters and the birth of Spiritualism. I have followed the post with links to current articles on the subject: Hornsville Weekly Tribune, Hornsville, New York - 21 May 1897 They Were Nearly Mobbed in Rochester, and Their Seances Made a Tremendous Sensation--Proposition to Make a Spiritual Museum of the Old Fox Cottage Rappings Heard at Hydesville, N.Y., Forty-Nine Years Ago Almost unnoticed by the general public, prominent…

The Victorian era was a time of great change in Britain, new technologies, new lands, new ideas were beginning to change the society in a fundamental way. New lands were being explored and plundere…

The Fox Sisters (photo links to "The Death-Blow to Spiritualism:Being the true story of the Fox sisters, as revealed by authority of Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken" , by Reuben Briggs Davenport.)

Their seances with the departed launched a mass religious movement—and then one of them confessed that "it was common delusion"

The Fox Sisters claimed they were communicating with the dead. They helped bolster the Modern Spiritualism movement in America.

Mystery of The Fox Sisters and The Davenport Brothers. | HubPages

Modern Spiritualism begun in 1848 with the phenomena at Hydesville, New York, however, the supernatural experiences of Emanuel Swedenborg in 1744, actually ushered in a new spiritual age.

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A bewildered man stands looking at a table floating above his head as the ladies present seem to be keeping their poise.

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The Fox Sisters cabin became quite famous over the last century. In 1848, in Hydesville, New York where two of the sisters grew up, claimed to hear rapping noise. On March 31, the youngest sister challenged the noise maker, she asked the spirit to "rap" the ages of the two young girls- and it did. Whatever they tapped on the floor, it tapped back. This event began an interest in spirit communication that led to the founding of religion of Spiritualism. The cottage mysterious burned down in…

Hydesville Memorial Park near Newark is the property where modern day Spiritualism was founded by the Fox Sisters in 1848

Their seances with the departed launched a mass religious movement—and then one of them confessed that "it was common delusion"

Fox Sisters, Maggie and Kate

Portrait of Kate and Maggie Fox, Spirit Mediums from Rochester, New York. Along the bottom edge of the daguerreotype "Kate and Maggie Fox, Rochester Mediums, T.M. Easterly Daguerrean" is inscribed. Portions of the daguerreotype are colored with pink pigment.

Wizard school girls with familiars

Writers in London in the 1890s: 10 Steps to Hosting Your Own Victorian Seance