The Fabulous Fox Sisters And The Birth Of The Victorian Séance

We’ve all seen images of women wrapped in lace and fringe shawls gathered at a round table and holding hands, waiting for the spirits to make themselves known. The social gathering of the séance was one of many spiritualist practices of the 19th century that used the language of the occult and spoke about death.

Parlor games, tarot readings, spirit photography, and other fads all had a common theme. While some of these trends had been around for centuries, they certainly weren’t played in the front rooms of respectable families during their leisure time. What happened to make them so popular? The Fox Sisters happened and they changed the spiritual landscape of the Victorian era.

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