Episode 127: Duncan Do Nots
This time Cody tells Garth all about Ectoplasm! What is it? Where does it come from? Should you eat it? etc. And along the way tells the story of the last woman to be "tried for witchcraft" in The United Kingdom!
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Enjoy the images and videos below!
The Fox Sisters, "founders" of Spiritualism.
Charles Richet, Nobel Prize winning scientist and discoverer of anaphylaxis also a spiritualist who coined the term Ectoplasm, and the idea of "The Sixth Sense."
Medium Kathleen Goligher photographed with her ectoplasm "lever" that allowed her to move tables. Ectoplasm was said to come from the orifices and pores of psychic mediums.
Eva Carrier with ectoplasm face, 1912. The face was actually cut from a newspaper.
Unknown Male medium with ectoplasm.
Psychical Researcher and fraud exposer Harry Price. Harry Price took an interest in Ectoplasm and medium Helen Duncan in particular. He obtained a sample of her ectoplasm and found it to be made of a combination of egg whites, lavatory paper, and cheese cloth that she swallowed and then regurgitated during seances, or hid in her sinus cavity.
Ectoplasm with "Spirit" face conjured by Cody for the Least Haunted Podcast. A mixture of egg whites and toilet paper with a face cut from a newspaper. Just how physical mediums made theirs 100 years ago!
Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (1897-1956), Scottish physical medium famous for her ectoplasmic conjurings.
Helen with some of her "conjured spirits" made from paper mache. The ectoplasm coming from her nose is egg whites, toilet paper, and cheese cloth.
Helen in her black frock séance outfit expelling ectoplasm.
GARTH'S CORNER! GARTH'S CORNER! GARTH'S CORNER!
Camille Flammarion. Astronomer, and father of modern speculative fiction, and possibly, accidentally responsible for scientology.
Camille working as a computer at the Societé Astonomie Francais.
Wood cut depicting a person gaining access to outside knowledge. First published by Camille Flammarion, but the original artist is unknown.