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19th century humans had an acute relationship with death: the average life span was around 50 years, the infant mortality rate was roughly fifty-percent, with women dying in child birth, and men dying in war. Families often held days-long wakes for the departed’s body in the parlor rooms of their homes. It’s no wonder that seances and communing with spirits …
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From mid-September, social media images are rife with candles, cobwebs, pumpkins, fog, and the tattered edges of old books. As we pass that night where the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest, we may bring out twinkling lights and throw bright, loud parties… only to discover that the gloomy air, howling wind, and the long darkness of night …
They say women are best at waiting, men best at going off to war, but that’s only because men continue to make this so. Truthfully, I’ve never been very good at waiting. If I had waited for the right circumstance, the right family to take my sister Jenny and me in when our father died, we never would have ended up here. Jenny would not have gotten herself into the mess she did. And I would never have met Ewan Shaw and fallen in love.
“The Cottingley Fairies” appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (b. 1901– d. 1988) and Frances Griffiths (b. 1907– d. 1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in Northern England.
Spiritualism, a religion that at it’s peak claimed over eight million followers in the United States and Europe, has very humble beginnings indeed. In late March of 1848, in a small cottage, on a small piece of land in Hydesville, New York, the two youngest daughters of John and Margaret Fox changed the Western notions of the Beyond forever.