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Spirit slate writing and kindred phenomena

by Chung Ling Soo, William E Robinson & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena" by William E. Robinson is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The work explores the various methods and tricks utilized by mediums in spiritualistic séances, particularly focusing on slate writing tests that are often misattributed to supernatural abilities. The author, who has a background in magic and illusion, aims to expose the fraudulent tactics employed by these mediums to deceive their audiences. The opening of the text presents the author's preface, where he shares his partial upbringing in beliefs surrounding spiritualism but highlights his intention to demystify the tricks used in the practice. He emphasizes that while he respects the sincere beliefs of spiritualists, it is essential to understand the psychological and mechanical methods used to create the illusion of communication with the dead. Ranging from the use of cleverly designed slates to various deceptive writing techniques, the beginning of the book sets the stage for a detailed examination of the artifice behind spirit communication. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Magic” and “magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “magic”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Spiritualism” and “spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Mediums” in the description, “Spiritualism” in the description, and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “spiritualism”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Mediums”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject

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Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1898-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York City, Munn & Co.English—Public digitized item

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1898Munn & Company; Munn & company; New York City : Munn & Company; New York City, Munn & companyEnglish—Public

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2020-04-19Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
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  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
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  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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