Seances
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How Far Back Does Seance Go?
The Victorian seance boom is truly something to build, but how far back does seance go? We have always thought we could communicate with the spirits of the dead. The Greeks in particular believed you could communicate with spirits by dreaming. In 1848, these two sisters, Kate and Maggie Fox, who think that they're talking to spirits in their isolated New York farmhouse,. people become interested in it and they start gathering in groups to talk to spirits.
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