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The erotic séances that scandalized 1920s spiritualism

The erotic séances that scandalized 1920s spiritualism

Popkin
Jun 20, 2025
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Photo from Phenomena of Materialisation (1923)

In early 1900s Paris, a young medium named Eva Carrière claimed she could manifest spirits from her body in the form of ghostly ectoplasm. A fan named Baron von Schrenck-Notzing spent four years documenting what he believed were genuine supernatural phenomena. The séances involved explicit elements — Carrièr…

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