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The Spirit-Writing of Gino Fanciullacci

Posted on March 12, 2020October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

“For the Spiritualists [in Florence] are many, and we have a few but very good mediums, principal amongst them the psychograph, Signor Fanciullacci…” – from “A Letter from Florence: The Protestant Bishop of Mexico and Spiritualism” by Giovanni Damiani (1886) Much like Quattrocento and Cinquecento Florence, the Florence of the Victorian age was all aglow…

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The Enchanted House of Justinus Kerner

Posted on December 12, 2016October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

“There were visions in the air, and dreams sitting on the staircases…”  -from Memoirs (1893) by Charles Godfrey Leland  “Kerner’s house is, perhaps, the most remarkable and peculiar in all Swabia…if we wish to receive or impart a right idea of Kerner, we must see him and describe him in his own house.” -from Justinus…

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