Fox sisters

The Fox sisters, Leah, Margaret (Maggie ) and Catherine (Kate ) Fox, were U.S. necromancer inside. They claimed to be able to stimulate deceased as a media in séances to knock characters from the afterlife. Finally, it turned out that they produced the knock with her toes joints. They still brought a modern religious and spiritualistic movement on the road. These events are often associated with the emergence of modern spiritualism.

Marketing phenomena spritistischer

Since 1847, sporadic knocking supposed to have been heard in the house of the Fox family in Hydesville. By a kind of Morse code, the sisters wanted to have brought in experience that a traveling salesman had been murdered in her house once, whose spirit now communicated. The novelty of this type of communication spirits spread rapidly in the U.S. and has been exploited financially from them soon. However, in 1849 began the Fox sisters with appearances in Rochester (New York). Finally, she gained fame, toured Europe and had many imitators. Margaret Fox was doing a liaison with Elisha Kent Kane.

Imitator

Shortly thereafter, the more " media " publicity in appearance to the trend auszumünzen. 1955 two million Americans are already believed in the truth of the observed phenomena.

Revocation

1888 gave Kate and Margaret Fox dizziness publicly, they had made the knocking with her toes joints. The offset of the spiritualist movement a severe blow, and soon many other supposed ghosts communications proved to be a fraud.