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BL
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719911
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b539604
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| Main Entry
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Jonathan Barry.
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| Title & Author
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Raising spirits : : how a Conjuror's Tale was transmitted across the Enlightenment\ Jonathan Barry.
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| Publication Statement
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[Basingstoke?]: Palgrave, 2013. ©2013
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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(viii, 146 pages) : illustration
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| ISBN
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1137378948
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: 9781137378941
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| Contents
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Thomas Perks and his Circle --;Arthur Bedford and his Circle --;The Second Phase: Bristol and London 1760-79 --;Evangelical Publishing --;Astrologers --;The Nineteenth Century: Medicine, Spiritualism and Christianity.
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| Abstract
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Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.
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BODY, MIND SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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Spiritualism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Spiritualism.
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| LC Classification
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BF1242.G7J663 9999
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| Added Entry
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Jonathan Barry
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