🜏TREPANATION🜏

༶ MYEN ༶ Sonic Tulpamancy

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Lord Byron used a skull his gardener had found at Newstead Abbey as a drinking vessel. He even wrote a witty drinking poem as if inscribed upon it, “Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull”. The cup, filled with claret, was passed around “in imitation of the Goths of old”.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti

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The Ossuary | Kostnice | 1970 | dir. Jan Švankmajer

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Eva Carrière was a fraudulent materialization medium in the early 20th century known for making fake ectoplasm from chewed paper and cut-out faces from magazines and newspapers

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ECTOPLASM

From the Greek words ektos and plasma and meaning 'exteriorized substance’, ectoplasm a whitish substance that allegedly extrudes from the mouth nose, ears or other orifices of the medium during a séance.

The phrase was coined in the late nineteenth century by French psychologist Charles Richet, who recorded the phenomenon in his own research with the ectoplasm-producing medium Madame d'Esperance. It is said to smell like ozone (a sweet, clover-like smell), to be either warm or cold to the touch and to appear either light and airy or sticky and jelly-like, with a structure that varies from amorphous clouds to a net-like membrane that can transform into limbs, faces or bodies of ghosts or spirits. If exposed to light the ectoplasm is said to snap back into the medium's body, sometimes causing discomfort, pain and injury. Many believe this substance to be the matter that composes one's astral body and is the basis of all psychic phenomena.

In experiments in the early 1900s, medium Marthe Béraud was said to produce masses of white or grey material during a sitting. She was thoroughly examined beforehand by a German doctor, Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, to confirm that she wasn't hiding anything. The Baron described Béraud's ectoplasm as sticky icicles that ran down her face and onto the front of her body where they assumed faces or shapes.

Perhaps the most well-known ectoplasm-producing medium was Mina Crandon. Famous photographs from the 1920s show Mina with long strings of ectoplasm streaming out of her mouth, ears, nose and even from between her legs.

Research into ectoplasm was conducted well into the twentieth century and analyses of small pieces of ectoplasm did in some cases, although not all, reveal fraud, with the use of substances such as muslin, toothpaste, soap, gelatine and egg white. Magician Harry Houdini once said that he couldn't believe superior beings would allow the production of such disgusting substances from the human body. Interest in ectoplasm has declined but some modern mediums are still said to produce the phenomenon.

Text from The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Hauntings by Theresa Cheung (HarperElement, 2013)

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Physical Medium Mina Crandon in a trance state

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A detatched photograph from a page of an annotated photo album labeled #40 of the medium, Mary Marshall, in a trance and with a teleplasmic mass attached to her mouth that contained the face of a dog during a seance at the home of Dr. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton on April 3, 1932.

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a poppet (effigy doll) dating around 1953. made in bavaria, germany. height: 38 cm. collection: the museum of witchcraft and magic, boscastle

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Arian

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two-headed mother pulled you from the black and she can send you back

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Eye of Horus neck tattoo on the mummified remains of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,000 years ago, found in Deir el-Medina, the village of tomb builders

Smithsonian, photo by Anne Austin