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The majority of signs first made four years ago used only neon gas, which gives a red light, Near Lymington, England, Dr. William Teasdale Wilson, 79-year-old spiritist, sat dead in his chair for a week.

From Time Magazine Archive

A spiritist kept newspaper readers diverted with "messages" from a Martian woman, one "Gomaruru."

From Time Magazine Archive

This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement as an effort "to support Faith by actual, provable fact."

From Time Magazine Archive

She must’ve fought to believe that she was a normal person, just like everyone else, and not a gifted spiritist, linked to a legacy of magic.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older