Adelma Vay

Adelaide of Wurmbrand - Stuppach also Adelma Vay Vay de Vaya or Adelma ( born October 20, 1840 in Ternopil, Galicia, now Ukraine, † May 24 1925 in Gonobitz, Lower Styria today Slovenia), was an Austrian writer and spiritualist.

Life

Adelmas father, the k u k officer, Count Ernst von Wurmbrand Stuppach was stationed at the time of her birth in Galicia, but died in 1846. Due to the remarriage of her mother in 1851 Adelma grew up in the Mark Brandenburg. 1860 she married the officer Eugen Baron Vay, with whom she then lived on his estate Tisza Lök in Hungary. Some years later, the couple bought an estate in Gonobitz.

1865 could be Adelma Vay treated by a magnetizer for pain. This they called the medial gifted. By his own account, she had her powers, inherited from her mother, the Countess Teleki and later Duchess Solm. It began from this time also to practice the medial letter. In her own words: " Write the spirit through me, without that I need to think about it, flying my arm and the pencil on the paper and I can meanwhile chat. " In 1870, she released her first major, supposedly written in this way book Spirit, force, material in which you stood to one side claims to be the Holy Laurentius of Rome, the Holy Mary and Buddha. they also published books of fairy tales, such as tales of the sun's rays, which she named as an influence Hans Christian Andersen. known Vay was also their belief in reincarnation by Allan Kardec. yourself thought she was the daughter of a robber baron from the 14th century, which was burned as a witch. she was a follower of homeopathy and Theosophy and wants to have healed people with magnetism.

Through her ​​books Vay to one of the most famous and controversial of the late 19th century was Spiritistinnen. Her husband worked as a medium, and together they participated in 1871 instrumental in the founding of the association spiriter researchers in Budapest, chaired by Adolf Grünhut.

Writings

  • Studies about the spirit world. Leipzig: Mutze, 1874.
  • Visions in the water glass. Budapest: "Association spiriter researchers ", 1877
  • Tales of eternal Mütterleins. Budapest: Tettey, 1879
  • The Zephyr eavesdropped: a collection of fairy tales; to the best of Wohlthätigkeitsanstalt. Gonobitz: Selbstverl. the author, 1885
  • The spheres between the earth and sun of Augustus. Berlin: K. Siegismund, 1890
  • Images from Beyond: medi anime dictations of H. Chr Andersen and others. Geschriebenvon Adelma Vay. Vienna: Selbstverl. the editors, 1905
  • Mental nourishment in times of war: Ghosts & f heart strengthening our warriors and their families. Wiesbaden: Abigt, (1916 )
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