The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Part 20

MOVEMENT of knees of "medium" noted by Dr. Lee while "raps" were heard, 143.

ORIGIN of the fraud, 81, 83, 87, 92.

PERSECUTION of Mrs. Catherine Fox Jencken and her children by spiritualistic enemies, 60.

PROPHECY of Dr. Kane concerning the future of Maggie Fox, 213.

PROMISES of Maggie Fox to Dr. Kane never to "rap" any more, 223, 226.

PRESIDENT Pierce's wife and Maggie Fox, 223.

PROFESSION of spiritualistic belief --Mrs. Kane expressly disclaims it, 181, 234.

"RAPS"

--Failure to "throw" them to different parts of a room, 184.

--Always heard near the spot where "medium" is stationed, 136, 172, 173.

--Effort of the will in producing them apparent, 136.

--Muscular contractions their possible cause, 137.

--Not produced while "mediums" in constrained position, 142.

--Not produced while feet of "mediums" are prevented from touching sonorous substances, 185.

--Vibrations in foot of Mrs. Kane, felt by Mr. Sellers of the "Seybert Commission," 194.

--Their physiological origin, 202, 203.

REPENTANCE --Mrs. Catherine Fox Jencken, 58, 59.

--Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane, 233.

REPORTS on investigations of "rappings," 134, 141, 149, 173.

ROCHESTER --Outlandish doings told by Mrs. Underhill, 106, 113.

--Mrs. Kane gives the true explanation of them, 112.

--First public appearances of the Fox Sisters, 121.

SENATE ridicules Spiritualism in debate, 159.

SLADE (Henry) admits that certain magicians produce their effects in the same way that he does, 199.

SEYBERT (Henry) --Crazed by Spiritualism, 166.

--Mrs. Kane enters the "Spiritual Mansion," 164.

--She draws the line at the Apostles and the Angel Gabriel, 166.

--His legacy for the investigation of Spiritualism, 167.

--His "spirit" mistakes the ident.i.ty of a member of the "Seybert Commission" and calls him by a queer name, 171.

--Though he knew no Latin in the flesh, his "spirit" is made to write Latin, 197.

"SEYBERT Commission" (The) --Its origin and labors, 167.

--Experiments with Mrs. Kane, 169.

--Its conclusions regarding the "rappings," 168, 201.

--On other phases of Spiritualism, 201.

SPIRITUALISM --Mrs. Catherine Fox Jencken says it is the greatest curse the world has ever known, 56.

SUPERSt.i.tION --Traditions in the Fox family about queer happenings, 119.

UNDERHILL (Ann Leah) --Her narrative proven false, 38.

--Sinister influence over her younger sisters, 233.

VERDICT (The unalterable), 201.

VIBRATION of articles when "medium's" body is in contact with them while producing raps, 138, 145.

WARNINGS of Dr. Kane to Maggie and Katie Fox against a life of deception, 216, 219, 222, 225, 228, 229.

--Against intercourse with her sister, Leah, 227.

FINIS.

Footnotes:

[1] Dr. Kane and Horace Greeley.

[2] It was erroneously stated that the boys were immediately sent back to Europe.

[3] "The Seybert Commission on Spiritualism," J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1887. The author is under obligations to the publishers of this volume, for material which he has taken from it.

[4] The author of "The Love-Life of Dr. Kane;" published by Carleton, 1865, New York.

[5] This form of expression was here used because the author of "The Love-Life," while not a believer in Spiritualism, did not wish to imply in a work that had Mrs. Kane's personal sanction, the slightest doubt of the sincerity of her professions or of her claims as a "medium."

[6] Leah.

[7] General Waddy Thompson.

[8] Ex-Governor Tallmadge.

[9] Katie, as well as her sister, had promised to abjure the "spirits,"

and she had also said that she would go to live with Maggie on the latter's marriage with Dr. Kane.

[10] The wife of the President of the United States.