Raising Spirits

Raising Spirits
Author: J. Barry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137378948

Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.