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Podcast: The Exploress Podcast
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Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums (Season 1, Episode 8)
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:59:57
Publish Date: 2018-10-11 11:36:33
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Victorian America was a very haunted place, and by mid-century the Spiritualist movement was sweeping through it. People went in droves to see mediums - who were mostly women - to try and reach the spirits of their loved ones just beyond the veil. They made tables levitate, answered philosophical questions in front of huge crowds, and found a kind of fame and attention that suffragists would have killed for.
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