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Servants of the Supernatural
The Night Side of the Victorian Mind
Social & Industrial History
Psychology
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Antonio Melechi
Heinemann 2008
Hardback 290 pages Illustrated 
043401334X | 9780434013340 |  Product code: 76861  
At the start of the 19th century the pseudo-science of mesmerism - defined by the ever-cynical Ambrose Bierce as 'Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner' - ushered in the golden age of the seance. Antonio Melechi tells the stories of the mediums, psychics, somnabulists, quacks and rogues who enthralled the public with their miracles and of the amateur sleuths, scientists, magicians and clerics who exposed and denounced their fraudulent performances.
 
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