Seances
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Seances
Kate and Maggie Fox were two teenage girls living in an isolated farmhouse near Rochester, New York. They started hearing thumps and weird sounds from all over this farmhouse. Their older sister Leah gets the idea that maybe there's money to be made with this. She brings them to live with her in Rochester and she starts charging for the seances. And within just a few years, they are touring the UK, the US, there are now hundreds of mediums springing up everywhere.
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