
Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle
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Conan Doyle's Adventures in the World of Spiritualism
Skeptics like Houdini were hard at work trying to disprove some of the mediums techniques. Conan Doyle did receive a lot of criticism for is the case of the cottony fairies. The Bishop of London held his own Remembrance Service attended by many ex-service men in opposition and wrote an article shortly afterwards stating that spiritualists should be left to get on with it.
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