Fox sisters

Events throughout the 19th century featured a strong presence of the supernatural, despite being a period obsessed with science and technology.

Fox Sisters of NY. Originators of Spiritualism. These are the "Trench Sisters" described in Rosemary's Baby

The Victorian era was a time of great change in Britain, new technologies, new lands, new ideas were beginning to change the society in a fundamental way. New lands were being explored and plundere…

Séances and spiritualists grew popular across the United States and Europe in the 19th century despite the skeptics.

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Hamilton-Parker Psychics Articles and Predictions

Their seances with the departed launched a mass religious movement—and then one of them confessed that "it was common delusion"

Traditional Korean folk tale adapted from stories collected by Heinz Insu Fenkl, James Riordan, and others. A long time ago there was a man who had three sons but no daughter. It was his dearest wi…

Modern Spiritualism begun in 1848 with the phenomena at Hydesville, New York, however, the supernatural experiences of Emanuel Swedenborg in 1744, actually ushered in a new spiritual age.

the fox sisters

Here is a newspaper article from 1897 commemorating the Fox Sisters and the birth of Spiritualism. I have followed the post with links to current articles on the subject: Hornsville Weekly Tribune, Hornsville, New York - 21 May 1897 They Were Nearly Mobbed in Rochester, and Their Seances Made a Tremendous Sensation--Proposition to Make a Spiritual Museum of the Old Fox Cottage Rappings Heard at Hydesville, N.Y., Forty-Nine Years Ago Almost unnoticed by the general public, prominent…

The Fox Sisters claimed they were communicating with the dead. They helped bolster the Modern Spiritualism movement in America.

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The Ouija board (known also as a Spirit board or Talking board) is a type of board commonly believed to enable its users to communicate with the spirit world. A Ouija board usually has the letters of the alphabet inscribed onto it, the numbers 0 – 9, along with words such as ‘yes’, ‘no’, and ‘goodbye’. In addition to the board itself, each Ouija includes a planchette, a teardrop-shaped device with three legs.

My take for the cover art of the fairy tale: The Fox Sister. Scroll for the process.

Skazka o lisichke-sestrichke i volke (tale about fox-sister and wolf ) illustrated by Lissner