Fox sisters were three sisters from Rochester, New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism: Leah, Margaretta, and Catherine Fox.
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17 Facts About Fox sisters
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Amy and Isaac Post, a radical Quaker couple and long-standing friends of the Fox sisters family, invited the girls into their Rochester home.
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On 14 November 1849, the Fox sisters demonstrated their spiritualist rapping at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester.
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Fox sisters girls became famous and their public seances in New York in 1850 attracted notable people including William Cullen Bryant, George Bancroft, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Horace Greeley, Sojourner Truth and William Lloyd Garrison.
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Longworthy investigated the Fox sisters and noted how the knockings or raps always came from under their feet or when their dresses were in contact with the table.
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Fox sisters concluded that Margaretta and Kate had produced the noises themselves.
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From a control, they discovered the raps did not occur if the Fox sisters were placed on a couch with cushions under their feet.
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Fox sisters applied these skills in exposing some of the deceptions employed by the Fox sisters during two sessions which he attended.
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Fox sisters declaimed the girls' means of hiding from the bodily examination that would expose their fraud:.
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The Fox sisters made an attempt and were investigated by a committee which included the magician John Wyman.
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Fox sisters was taken to the home of Spiritualist Mrs Emily B Ruggles, 492 State Street in Brooklyn, where she died on March 8,1893.
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In 1851, Mrs Norman Culver, a relative of the Fox sisters family, admitted in a signed statement that she had assisted them during their seances by touching them to indicate when the raps should be made.
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Fox sisters claimed that Kate and Margaretta revealed to her the method of producing the raps by snapping their toes and using their knees and ankles.
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Eager to harm Leah as much as possible, the two Fox sisters traveled to New York City, where a reporter offered $1,500 if they would "expose" their methods and give him an exclusive on the story.
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Fox sisters expanded on her career as a medium after leaving the homestead to begin her Spiritualist travels with her older sister, Mrs Underhill:.
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Fox sisters had attempted to return to Spiritualist performances, but never again attracted the attention or paying clientele of the sisters' earlier careers.
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Fox sisters have been widely cited in parapsychology and spiritualist literature.
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