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E278 A Birthday Demon and a Lunar Lemon

And That's Why We Drink

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Women's Psychic Powers

The eight h t women were bucking medrug loud. But the popular press now encouraged them to keep to the home. One paper advertised, don't wear a necklace if you're tempted to twiddle with it. The ideal woman was contained, composed and restrained. For a woman with psychic powers, or at least pretending to have psychic powers, different rules applied. A medium could undertake extravagant feats of mobility, astral projection, transfiguration, time travel, levitation,. In doing so, escape the constraints of her gender and her class. It makes sense that also, during a wave of spiritualism, absolutely, that all of them would be like, i just found how powerful

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