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Mary Roth’s Tragic Illness And Death
- Mary Roth suffered daily seizures from infancy and used leeches and bloodletting as treatments in the 19th century.
- She cut herself, collapsed after heavy blood loss, then entered a prolonged unresponsive state before dying at 19.
Lorentz Venom’s Possession Episode
- Lorentz "L'orancy" Venom began having seizures and trance states in 1877, later speaking of visions and hearing voices.
- After a spiritualist intervened, she purportedly became possessed by Mary Roth and later fully reverted, claiming Mary left to heal another.
Cultural Context Shapes Belief
- Spiritualism was mainstream in the 1870s, priming communities to accept mediumship claims as plausible.
- That cultural context makes Lorentz’s convincing knowledge of Mary Roth both more understandable and harder to dismiss.