Hydesville

It wrested from Progressive Lyceum No. 1 major control of the anniversary celebrations of the "advent of modern Spiritualism" the so-called famous "Rochester Rappings" heard by two sisters, Kate and Margaret Fox, at Hydesville, N.Y., in 1848, which launched the Spiritualist movement in the United States.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011

It wrested from Progressive Lyceum No. 1 major control of the anniversary celebrations of the "advent of modern Spiritualism" the so-called famous "Rochester Rappings" heard by two sisters, Kate and Margaret Fox, at Hydesville, N.Y., in 1848, which launched the Spiritualist movement in the United States.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011

Yet these same bright and enterprising men and women believed Maggie and Kate Fox of Hydesville, N.Y. -- ages 14 and 12, respectively -- when they said they could communicate with the dead by rapping on a door.

Vibrant, Turbulent Young America 2008

In response, he received a letter from the pastor and elders of Hydesville Community Church in Hydesville, Calif.

The Backlash Against Tithing 2007

In the United States, in 1848, as war with Mexico was winding down and conflict between the Northern and Southern states was heating up, two young sisters named Margaretta and Catherine Fox, of Hydesville, New York, reported that they had established communications with spirits who were apparently responding to their questions with rapping sounds.

ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

Spiritualism, the religion that held that fact as its central tenet, was conceived on March 31, 1848, in a modest farmhouse in the upstate hamlet of Hydesville, New York, when two teenage sisters, Katie and Margaret Fox, began hearing mysterious raps.

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

Spiritualism, the religion that held that fact as its central tenet, was conceived on March 31, 1848, in a modest farmhouse in the upstate hamlet of Hydesville, New York, when two teenage sisters, Katie and Margaret Fox, began hearing mysterious raps.

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

In the United States, in 1848, as war with Mexico was winding down and conflict between the Northern and Southern states was heating up, two young sisters named Margaretta and Catherine Fox, of Hydesville, New York, reported that they had established communications with spirits who were apparently responding to their questions with rapping sounds.

ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

In the United States, in 1848, as war with Mexico was winding down and conflict between the Northern and Southern states was heating up, two young sisters named Margaretta and Catherine Fox, of Hydesville, New York, reported that they had established communications with spirits who were apparently responding to their questions with rapping sounds.

ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

Maggie Fox stated publicly that she and her sister Kate had faked the spirit raps at their home in Hydesville.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004