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• At the end of the séance, the party stopped before my Writer. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
• The position appears to me to be absolutely untenable, in face of the evidence he himself adduces 35] An excellent example of an illusion generated by the conditions of a spiritualistic séance is the following, which occurred to myself at Lily Dale, N. Y., during my investigations there in the summer of 1907, and which I reported in the Proceedings of the American S.P.R._, as follows My sister 'Eva' materialized for me. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• We began the séance, as before, by putting her to sleep Not long after "Maudie" spoke, saying: "_Mr. —  The Shadow World
• All honor to her for breaking away from the traditions of mediumship Mrs. Quigg caught me up on this: "What do you mean by 'traditions of mediumship I mean that for the most part investigators have nearly always been kept at arm's-length by the fiction that the 'guide' should control everything, that the séance is a religious rite, that the medium must not be touched nor exposed to the light, and so on, till the scientist was reduced to the feeble rank of an on-looker in the dark, so that no real test was possible. —  The Shadow World
• The place of the séance was the parlor of his apartment, his young wife and little daughter being present. —  The Shadow World

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