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Remarkable outcome of a author séance, June 3, 1871, as reportable in The Spiritual Magazine, July 1:

After a goodish instance an goal was change to become upon the table, and when the reddened was struck their traveller was institute to be Mrs. Agnes Guppy. She was not by whatever effectuation clad for an excursion, as she was without shoes, and had a note aggregation in digit assistance and a enclosure in the other. The terminal articulate inscribed in the aggregation was ‘onions,’ the ink of which was wet, and there was ink in the pen. When Mrs. Guppy regained her consciousness, she expressed that she had been making whatever entries of expenses, became insensible, and knew null dirt she institute herself in the circle.

In his Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects (1696), expert Evangelist Aubrey writes that a manservant of his acquaintance, “Mr. M.,” was destroyed by the inquisition in Portugal in 1655 “for existence brought thither from Goa, in East-India, in the air, in an dumbfounding brief time.”