Spiritualism – the belief that the disembodied spirits of the dead, surviving in another world, can communicate with the living in this world, especially through mediums. That’s how the Collins English Dictionary defines it. Spiritualism in America took off after the Fox Sisters starting communicating with ghosts with a series of tapping in 1848. Séances were held quite frequent and though many mediums were proven frauds and even Margaret, one of the Fox sisters, declared she was faking it (which she later recanted) spiritualism grew rapidly.
Not only did spiritualism grow it also influenced...
