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Showing posts with label Ectoplasm. Show all posts
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Harry Houdini: a true magician among false spirits.
In my last post I described Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the leading figures of the spiritualism movement. I also referenced Harry Houdini but only in passing as one of the great entertainers of that era.
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Winnipeg's occult connection: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You wouldn't know it now but back in the heyday of the 1920's Winnipeg, the Chicago of the North, was a hotbed of spiritual investigation.
Ectoplasam at a Hamilton seance - Note the image of Doyle suspended in the ectoplasm 2 years after his death. (Photo - June 27, 1932) |
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