Project Gutenberg 2010-08-23 Public domain in the USA. 141 Davenport, Reuben Briggs 1932 2007581527 The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters" by Reuben Briggs Davenport is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The work focuses on the lives of the Fox sisters, Margaret and Catherine, who were instrumental in initiating the Spiritualism movement in the United States only to later renounce it as a fraud. The book aims to expose the deceptive practices that the sisters unwittingly participated in and ultimately condemned, offering insights into the origins and evolution of Spiritualism. The opening of the book sets the stage for the startling revelations that follow. It details how the Fox sisters began to produce "spiritualistic manifestations" as children, initially viewing it as a harmless prank, but as their fame grew, they became entangled in a web of deception. Margaret and Catherine express their remorse for the movement they started, emphasizing their intention to reveal the truth about Spiritualism and its origins as a deception. Their genuine confessions about the methods they employed to create the illusions of spiritual communication reflect a powerful repudiation of the very belief system that gained them notoriety. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33506/33506-h/images/cover.jpg en Spiritualism Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 Jencken, Catherine Fox, 1836-1892 Mediums -- New York (State) -- Rochester BF Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 301386 301394 2024-09-14T07:40:14.450912 2023-09-14T12:14:21.925077 text/html text/html 305448 2010-08-23T07:50:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 427577 2010-08-23T07:50:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 433893 2024-09-14T07:40:20.549385 application/epub+zip 437637 2024-09-14T07:40:15.663892 application/epub+zip 167565 2024-09-14T07:40:14.992962 application/epub+zip 556685 2024-09-14T07:40:23.997358 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 514202 2024-09-14T07:40:19.778375 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243455 2022-09-15T10:17:16.046306 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 252790 252580 2024-09-14T07:40:13.681945 2023-09-14T12:14:21.196084 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 252571 2010-08-23T07:50:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 94958 2010-08-23T07:50:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 252562 2010-08-23T07:50:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 94912 2010-08-23T07:50:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20895 2024-09-14T07:40:24.137362 application/rdf+xml 17754 2024-09-14T07:40:15.095900 image/jpeg 2731 2024-09-14T07:40:15.044898 image/jpeg 435993 2024-09-14T07:40:14.486931 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog