Punch,  42 (1862), 130.

A Spirit Rapping Seance!

J L *

Genre:

Illustration, Caricature

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

J L *

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Charlatanry, Imposture, Mental Illness


    Shows a spiritualistic seance at a drawing room table around which sit several people who possess the heads of various animals associated with credulity: geese and asses. At the top of the table sits the medium, Mr Foxer, who has the head of a fox (an animal associated with cunning), and who tells his guests, 'There's a spirit named Walker writing on my arm!'. Mr Foxer represents Charles H Foster, who claimed that spirits of the dead communicated by writing messages on his arm.



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