When we spoke to the dead : how ghosts gave American women their voice
"Spiritualism's influence affects every corner of society. As political as it is spiritual, the movement was once defined by the belief that the living could speak freely with the dead, and that the dead spoke back. Since the mid-1800s, Americans have increasingly embraced occult rituals that have been stripped of their darkness and shined up like a lucky penny. But how did these once forbidden practices, like seances and horoscope readings, ente...
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