{"product_id":"people-from-the-other-world-paperback-9781108072656","title":"People From the Other World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108072656","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePeople From the Other World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOlcott's investigation into the psychic powers of the Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vermont, is a classic of Victorian psychic research.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenry Steel Olcott (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108072656, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 May 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages, 58 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe lawyer and journalist Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) published People from the Other World in 1875. Part 1 of the work is a careful account of Olcott's 1874 investigations into the famous Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vermont, and their claimed psychic powers. Part 2 is a report into two Philadelphia mediums who claimed to be able to call up two spirits called John and Katie King. The account includes descriptions of séances, healings, levitation, teleportation and the famous Compton transfiguration. Olcott, a founding member of the Theosophical Society and its first president, was a pioneer of psychical research. This work, deeply influenced by Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), who he met at Chittenden, is one of his most popular. It offers an important insight into the nineteenth-century fascination with the occult and is a classic example of a Victorian attempt to approach the supernatural with the rigours of scientific investigation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. The Eddy family\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Eddys as public mediums\u003cbr\u003e 3. Personal matters\u003cbr\u003e 4. A moonlight seance\u003cbr\u003e 5. Portents and marvels\u003cbr\u003e 6. Wonders in the Eddy family\u003cbr\u003e 7. A chapter of feet and inches\u003cbr\u003e 8. Materialization\u003cbr\u003e 9. The first seance\u003cbr\u003e 10. Many phantom visitors\u003cbr\u003e 11. Are they personations?\u003cbr\u003e 12. Is it an occult force?\u003cbr\u003e 13. Full of strange things\u003cbr\u003e 14. The dark-circle\u003cbr\u003e 15. Philosophical tests\u003cbr\u003e 16. Startling phenomena\u003cbr\u003e 17. A chapter of marvels\u003cbr\u003e 18. More wonders\u003cbr\u003e 19. Germans, Khourds, and Hungarians\u003cbr\u003e 20. The dead alive\u003cbr\u003e 21. Spiritualism vs. rationalism\u003cbr\u003e 22. Spirits as carriers\u003cbr\u003e 23. Tests continued\u003cbr\u003e 24. Pseudo-investigators\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Shakers as spiritualists\u003cbr\u003e 26. Summing up\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The Katie King affair\u003cbr\u003e The Compton transfiguration\u003cbr\u003e Miscellaneous\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266180862232,"sku":"9781108072656","price":38.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108072656i_c3673e24-7745-4451-a89c-0d60edfcebb5.jpg?v=1696748903","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/people-from-the-other-world-paperback-9781108072656","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}