According to folk legend, people have three souls and seven spirits, which is the origin of human nature. The human soul is usually attached to the human body. When a person is accidentally frightened or in danger of life, his soul will leave the body.

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Do you believe in the "spiritual arts" circulating among the people? According to folk legend, people have three souls and seven spirits, which is the origin of human nature. The human soul is usually attached to the human body. When a person is accidentally frightened or in danger of life, his soul will leave the body. Medium refers to mediums who can communicate with the soul. They are usually considered to have different talents than ordinary people.

Recently, the horror and supernatural films have become popular, and the discussions between "Media" and "Curse" are also very popular. It seems that the audience of this type of subject is still very large.

The most famous psychic medium in history actually earned a lot of money by holding spirit-subduing meetings and summoning ghosts. They are even considered one of the important figures inspiring the founding of [ spiritualism ], and they are the three sisters of Fox, the protagonist of this issue.

The birth of "spiritual media"

In the outside of a small wooden house in the small town of Hydewell, New York, USA, a small monument is erected, with the monument saying: [The birthplace of modern spiritualism - the former residence of the Fox Sisters. On March 31, 1848, they established communication with the spiritual world here. There is no death, no dead. Cadvared erected the monument, December 5, 1927].

1848, the Fox family moved to their new home in Hyde Village, New York. This house is a well-known haunted house in the local area. The former owner moved away because he couldn't stand the [ghost] in the house. At the beginning, the Foxes didn't find anything unusual, and everything was safe and sound. But starting from March, they began to hear some unexplained strange sounds: sudden knocks on the door and vigorously moving furniture. In the ghostly house, there was an indescribable strange feeling...

After a while, something even more strange happened: On the evening of March 31, 1848, the 15-year-old second sister Margaret Fox and the 12-year-old younger sister Kate Fox actually said that they could start to talk to the invisible strange sounds. The sisters ask [it] to answer their questions with a tap sound, for example, they ask [it] how old the younger sister is, and it will hit 12 times in response, or use the tap sound [one] or [two times] to represent [yes] or [no]. Sometimes they will take out the alphabet and ask [it] to use 1 to 26 tones to type out the letters to explain the sentences to be expressed. In this way, the teenage sisters began to communicate with [invisible].

The Foxes heard a strange knocking sound suddenly coming from their daughter's room upstairs. When they rushed upstairs, they found that there seemed to be [someone] clapping with their daughter. Mrs. Fox, who believed in the ghosts, asked in a trembling voice, "Is there any ghost attached to my daughter?" As a result, she got an extremely crisp answer. Mrs. Fox was so scared that she hurriedly walked around the streets and told her neighbor that her house was haunted.

The two sisters gave [it] a nickname [Mr. Splift], which is also synonymous with the devil. Later the voice claimed that he was a hawker named Rosner, who was murdered and buried in a cellar five years ago.

After hearing this statement, the locals were full of curiosity. At the same time, some people had heard the strange sounds made in this house, so they decided to go to the cellar to find out. Unexpectedly, the explorer actually dug some bones in the cellar, and things are really moving in a magical direction. Finally, the villagers find a former tenant named Bell and think he is the murderer. Although the allegation is baseless and no one named Rosner is missing in the village, he, who is believed to be the murderer, is still excluded by the whole village.

Psychics are famous all over the United States, and spiritual siege meetings are held in various places

When you have the so-called "spiritual" ability, what will you do? The Fox sisters’ choice is to make money.

The Foxes watched their devilish children and kept talking to what they called [it], so they decided to send the sisters to the home of Rochester's eldest sister Lea Fox, hoping to keep them away from ghosts. Unexpectedly, the two sisters said [it] also came over. The eldest sister didn't believe in psychics at first, but as a single mother, she saw the unlimited business opportunity to summon ghosts, and she decided to fulfill her sisters' [talent].

11849, the three Fox sisters showed their soul-suming ability in front of the public for the first time in the Collins Hall in Rochester. The two sisters took turns to be psychics and asked the summoned ghost questions in front of the audience, and the ghost answered with a knock. This is not only the first time in history that someone publicly makes money by summoning souls, but also drives media from the United States and other countries to come from the ground to the table and hold a sermon in front of the public.

Subsequently, the three Fox sisters became famous in the United States and became the most famous psychic medium in the United States. It is no less popular than today's top stars, and there are a large number of supporters everywhere. The spirits and spirits were held in a prosperous and prosperous society, with one more grander show, with hundreds of people participating in the grand event and talking to the ghosts together. People ask ghosts questions, from general stock trends, confusion about love, to asking how their dead relatives and friends are doing.

The sound of soul-summoning swept across the United States like an epidemic, and then swept across the ocean to Europe. By 1850, a specialized magazine for spiritualism was born, and various spiritualism groups took root and sprouted everywhere. The Fox sisters were employed by the entertainment giant at that time, and became famous in Britain and the United States. Since the 1850s, soul-summoning has become a sport with a large number of participants. One of the reasons is dramatic and fascinating, as described in the Hawthorne novel " Legend of Fugu ". It brought spiritual food and entertainment farce to the spiritually barren masses at that time. In the 19th century, people in the United States, Britain and other places suffered from the crisis of religious belief and the turmoil of the times, and the spiritualism movement brought them comfort.

This craze for the sermons that lasted about half a century was called the [First Spiritual Revival Movement] in the contemporary West by historians. It is precisely because of this craze that some intellectuals established the Society for Spiritual Studies (SPR) in London, England in 1882. Three years later, the Society for Spiritual Studies (ASPR) was also established in Boston . The purpose of the establishment of these two societies is to bring together contemporary science, medicine, physiology, , physics, etc., to conduct systematic and organized observations and research on unexplained life visions. The ultimate goal is to find the answer to whether there is a soul in the world.

The scam was exposed, the sad ending

As the Fox sisters continued to host spiritual storm meetings in various places, the three of them also made a lot of money. The two young sisters began to be indulged in alcohol because of their large income. In 1888, the eldest sister Lea began to worry about her sisters' alcoholism and asked them to quit drinking so that they could take good care of their children. Unexpectedly, my younger sister Kate took her second sister to New York in anger and decided to hold a conference to reveal her secrets.

In this conference, the two sisters confessed that their slander was a complete scam. Second sister Margaret said in a surprising tone at the meeting: "There is no ghost to appear... It is the biggest misfortune of my life... When I started this deception, I was too young to tell the difference between right and wrong."

She said that when she and Kate used the muscles under the knee to pull the ligaments, making strange sounds in the bones of the toes and ankles, it was purely for fun, just to scare their mothers. Unexpectedly, they would make a fake come true, so they had to continue having fun. Later, their elder sister Lea thought it was profitable, so she took them to Rochester to perform publicly, using people's desire for the existence of their souls to make money.She had been feeling uneasy inside for so many years, and now she was determined not to shelter their sister Lea. This is a [deadly blow] to the spiritual fanaticism that spreads to the West. Then he demonstrated on the spot how to use his knees and toes to make a strange sound like a ghost's answer.

Soon after, in Dae Wenbo's book "The Critical Strike of Spiritual Science", he further exposed the various tricks used in the Slayer Society. Both Margaret and Kate wrote the preface for this book in agreement.

When a movement forms a potential, it will develop in an uncontrollable direction, and even if you are the initiator, you cannot stop it.

The spiritual fanaticism aroused did not suffer a [fatal blow]. On the contrary, people in the spiritual science circle began to fight back. They first denied the truth revealed by Margaret and Kate, saying that these two people were talking nonsense entirely because of alcohol problems, and the reason why they attended the exposure conference was entirely for money. And Lea, who was still a hot psychic sister at that time, even denied the confession of her two sisters. A year later, Margaret suddenly withdrew her confession, saying that she had been misled by some shameless people before, and it was true that the undead possessed her. Those who sympathized with her said it was because Leah was going to take adverse actions against Margaret's children, forcing her to change her mouth. In fact, Margaret has already made it clear before about the authenticity of the Slayer Society.

After that exposement conference, people began to criticize the three Fox sisters, and they became poor and became physically in trouble due to serious alcoholism. The three died one after another within five years after the conference.

However, the story does not end with the death of the Fox sisters. In 1904, a corpse was found in a haunted cellar where the Fox family lived. Unlike the bones that were previously dug out in the cellar, the corpse skeleton was buried in the walls of the cellar.

Maybe this may be what the Fox sisters said [it]...

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