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Talking to the Dead

Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

by Barbara Weisberg

A narrative history of the Fox sisters, whose 'rappings' in 1848 launched American Spiritualism, the movement that produced séances, planchettes and ultimately the Ouija board. Balanced and well researched.

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