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The literature of the supernatural has had a distinguished history over the past two centuries, and the incorporation of the supernatural in literary works can be traced back as far as classical antiquity.
Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fantasy literature
ISBN :
The literature of the supernatural has had a distinguished history over the past two centuries, and the incorporation of the supernatural in literary works can be traced back as far as classical antiquity.
Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher :
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fantasy literature
ISBN : 9780313327766
Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313327742
The literature of the supernatural has had a distinguished history over the past two centuries, and the incorporation of the supernatural in literary works can be traced back as far as classical antiquity.
Author : Robert E. Beck
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780883431245
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
ISBN :
Literature dealing with gods, angels, demons, spirits and life after death.
Author : Robert Ernest Beck
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1975
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780688517229
Author : Frederick George Lee
Publisher : General Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781458931917
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IX. MODERN SPIRITUALISM. (continued.) ORE recently the manifestations have been still further developed. From the Spiritual Magazine the following is quoted: ? The stance was held by appointment. Our object being that of investigation, we limited the number to three, and, I must add, used every precaution we could think of to preclude the possibility of self-deception; we likewise guarded against any possible preparatory arrangement. Accordingly, we changed from the library to the dining-room. We were soon seated at a heavy square table. Twenty minutes passed without any manifestation; then came gentle raps, followed by the table being lifted, tilted, and gently vibrated. Then raps were heard simultaneously in different and opposite parts of the room.At my suggestion, the lamp was partly turned down, when a cold current of air was felt to pass over our hands and faces. A pause ensued. The dining-room table leaf standing in the corner of the room then commenced to vibrate, and one of the leaves being taken from the stand, was passed between Mr. Home and the table at which we were seated. It was then raised straight up, and passing vertically over my friend, gently touched him; in passing over me, it struck me on the crown of the head, but so gently, that I could hardly realize it to be the heavy leaf of the dining-room table; the touch nevertheless caused the leaf to vibrate all but sonorously. I name this to prove how delicately balanced and suspended in the air the leaf of the table must have been to have produced the vibration. It then passed over to the right, touching my shoulders, and finally was placed upon the table at which we were seated. The distance the leaf was carried I compute at nearly twelve yards (allowing for the circuit made), and at an ...
Author : Thomas Riggs
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Supernatural in literature
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Author : Douglas HILL (and WILLIAMS (Pat))
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Occultism
ISBN :
The Supernatural takes you on an excursion into the eerie world of the unknown, complete with what must surely be the rarest collection of occult illustrations anywhere. It includes photographs of materialized apparitions and 29th century witches. The Supernatural is based on modern research into today's parapsychology and the occult throughout history.
Author : Douglas Hill
Publisher : Signet
Page : pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 1967-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780451051462