Mediumship Gallery

Helen Duncan - Ectoplasm & Teleplasmic hand

Piece of card showing two undated photographs of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing "ectoplasm" and a "hand". There are annotations to show fraudulence. This are in a series of photographs of Harry Price's investigations into the mediumship of Helen Duncan and of Esson Maule, who was involved with the exposure of Helen Duncan during a sance in Edinburgh. HPG/1/4/3 (xiii)"

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Austrian medium Maria Silbert

Photograph of the Austrian medium Maria Silbert, wearing a hat and sitting in a coach outside her home in Graz, 1933. Austrian medium Maria Silbert (died 1936) produced many remarkable phenomena (often with her feet!) but was discovered by Harry Price to use trickery on occasion. HPG/1/7/20 (iv)

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Harry Prices investigations into Helen Duncan

Photograph of Esson Maude recreating where she sat during sitting with the Scottish medium Helen Duncan at the sance venue in Edinburgh, January 1933. This is one of series of photographs of Harry Price's investigations into the mediumship of Helen Duncan and of Esson Maule, who was involved with the exposure of Helen Duncan during a sance in Edinburgh. The photograph also has explanatory notes from Esson Maule on the back. HPG/1/4/3 (iv"

© Mary Evans Picture Library/HARRY PRICE