…money and fell off a chariot during a wedding procession traveling between villages. The revived Jasbir insisted that he was Brahmin and refused to eat food prepared by the Jat family, who belonged to a lower caste. For almost two years, he would only knowingly eat things cooked in metal…
…reality of bilocations (by which he means the physical appearance of a semblance of the human body), interpreting the phenomenon instead as a form of cryptesthesia. Richet pays much attention to physical mediumship, both telekinesis and the materializations of such mediums as Marthe Béraud, Florence Cook, Linda Gazzera, DD Home,…
…visits to alleged haunted houses we held sittings with Mrs Corner, (née Florence Cook) and a number of physical mediums. These special researches of ours were full of interest and on one or two occasions produced phenomena which we found it difficult to explain; but in general they proved futile…
…and Dingwall (1966).His support for sceptic Trevor Hall’s criticism of the reliability of the Crookes investigation of Florence Cook was especially controversial. Dingwall travelled widely in Europe and the USA in his capacity as SPR Research Officer, in order to investigate mediums. He published numerous reports in the organization’s Journal…
…next.5Stewart & Tait (1875).n 1894, Oliver Lodge, Charles Richet, and Frederic Myers used a wire apparatus during their sittings with medium Eusapia Palladino to detect electromagnetic surges from her body.6Lodge (1894), 300-360 Other mediums also appeared to manifest unusual electromagnetic effects from time to time, for example Florence Cook and…
…investigator. Crawford had been impressed by the temporary appearance of ectoplasmic structures seeming to emanate from the body of the medium; Fourner d’Albe himself had made a detailed study of William Crookes’ investigations of the materialisation medium Florence Cook, and in 1920 was a member of a SPR investigation committee…
…rays and x-rays. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863 and knighted in 1897. Among Crookes’s many interests were the psychical phenomena reported in Spiritualist seances. His investigations of mediums, notably DD Home, Kate Jencken (née Fox) and Florence Cook, convinced him of the genuineness of…
…of Psychical Research. A Primer of Parapsychology by Gardner Murphy (1961). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 41, 73-76. The Spiritualists: The Story of Florence Cook and William Crookes by T. Hall (1962). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 41, 372-77. Arthur James Balfour: The Happy Life of…
…22-24. Correspondence (1963). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 42, 85-86; 156-57. Foreign comments on Florence Cook’s mediumship (1964). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 54, 173-84. A further comparative analysis of some poltergeist phenomena cases from Continental Europe (1964). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research…
