Trance Collection

Eleonore Zugun - 5
Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata, at the onset of her stigmatic trance

Margery Seance - 4
Margery, in trance and her wrists held by sitters, exudes ectoplasm which spreads right across her face

Gladys Osborne Leonard, trance medium
Gladys Osborne Leonard (1882-1968), British trance medium. Date: 20th century

Margery Crandon 4
Controversial American medium Margery in trance. She was exposed by Houdini but many believe her genuine

Florence Cook, medium, with Katie King behind her
Florence Cook (c.1856-1904) was an English medium who claimed to materialise a spirit named Katie King. This photograph, taken during a seance at the house of William Crookes

Whirling Dervishes, Victorian period

Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order. The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin

MEDIUM IN TRANCE
A medium in trance calls up a spirit of the dead - cover of a popular French manual by Schemahni. Date: circa 1900

A musician sits on a float in an ecstatic trance, really into the music, while a couple of children sit beneath him at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, W. Indies. Date: 1968

MARINER, HEARS VOICES
The Mariner slumped on deck amongst the bodies of his dead shipmates slowly awakens from his trance to hear the voices of two spirits Date: First published: 1798

CATALEPSY, ARGENTINA
CATALEPTIC TRANCE ? At Rawson Hospital, Cordoba, Argentina, a 19-year old girl, supposed dead, recovers consciousness in the mortuary Date: 1940

MARGERY SEANCE - 5
Margery, in trance and her wrists held by sitters, exudes ectoplasm which drips from her face Date: circa 1924

George Chapman, spiritual healer and medium
George Chapman (1921-2006), English trance spiritual healer and medium. He was active for 60 years through the spirit of Dr William Lang (1852-1937)

Oracle of Delphi
The ORACLE OF DELPHI, in a trance, utters prophecies which are taken down by a secretary

French transfiguration medium Eugenie Picquart
Photograph of the French " transfiguration" medium Eugenie Picquart at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, in a trance during experiments, 1928. HPG/1/7/17 (ii)"

Gladys Osborne Leonard and Sir Oliver Lodge
Gladys Osborne Leonard, trance medium, and Sir Oliver Lodge, scientist and psychical researcher. Date: 20th century

Ritual of Self-Mutilation by Aissaoua Brotherhood, Morocco
A member of the snake charmers cult The Aissaoua Brotherhood ceremonially cuts his head on the Day of Sacrifices a ritual of self-mutilation. Date: circa 1910s

David Duguid
Scottish medium, best known for his drawings done in trance

Alexis Didier
French clairvoyant whose phenomenal talents operate in the hypnotic trance; countless demonstrations seem to put the genuineness of his powers beyond question

Anna Eliza Lord Chamberlain, American spiritualist
Anna Eliza Lord Chamberlain (1842-?), American spiritualist, the first to give trance lectures in New York. Seen here with a guitar. Date: 19th century

Bound Medium, photographed during a seance
A physical medium, tied to his chair during a seance, with four others, captured in an infrared photo

Indian Snake Charmers Date: circa 1910s

Snake Charmer - Peshawar, Pakistan, with his pipe and musical Cobra (extremely real by the looks of things!). Date: 1924

Scottish medium Helen Duncan starting to emit ectoplasm
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan starting to emit " ectoplasm" with " glove" during sance in Edinburgh whilst being controlled, May 1933. HPG/1/4/2(i)"

Marjan Gruzenski
Polish psychic who did paintings while in a trance

Martha Hatfield
11-year old prophetess of Leighton, Yorkshire, one of many who foretold things, true or false, during the Commonwealth. She is depicted in an ecstatic trance

Paranormal / Altered State
On-stage at Reims, actress Mlle Chatel falls into a spontaneous trance when an actor pretends to hypnotise her

Shaman of Lapland in a divinatory trance
A Shaman of Lapland lying on the ground with a magical drum on his back, in a divinatory trance, about to foretell the future

Woman breathing incense fumes
An example of the sense of smell -- a woman is in raptures as she breathes in fumes of incense

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