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It was an anonymously written book by a fraudulent medium, which exposed various tricks and included a glossary of slang used amongst spiritualists, one of which was 'top heavy'.
And by God, if I can't, I can't find it anywhere in my tabs, but it was basically a, oh, Revelations of a Spirit Medium is what it was called.
— Episode: How Spiritualism Works
Episode: How Spiritualism Works
It was an anonymously written book by a fraudulent medium, which exposed various tricks and included a glossary of slang used amongst spiritualists, one of which was 'top heavy'.
And by God, if I can't, I can't find it anywhere in my tabs, but it was basically a, oh, Revelations of a Spirit Medium is what it was called.
And I'm pretty sure it was published in 1897 and it is like 400 pages exposing all the tips and all that stuff, all the tricks.
Episode: How Spiritualism Works
This book was mentioned as an expose on the tricks of mediums in spiritualism, written anonymously by a medium and published in 1897, with a glossary of 19th century slang words among hucksters.
there's an expose written in 1897... it was basically a, oh, Revelations of a Spirit Medium is what it was called.
