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The Necromancy of Joann Georg Schrepfer

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Shrepfer's Necromancy Rituals

Johann Friedrich and Inneville Brent were executed in 1772 for manipulating King Christian, the seventh of Denmark. Shrepfer convinced people that he truly was conjuring the spirits of the dead by bringing spectral versions of famous people to the seance table. He would send a spirit away on an errand far away, and then have them return with some sort of evidence of their projection elsewhere.

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