Paranormal Collection (page 13)

MIRACLE / CLARES BREAD
When Saint Clare of Assisi, Italy, blesses the convent bread before eating, a cross miraculously appears on the rolls, like hot cross buns Date: circa 1250

CROSSING RIVER ON CLOUD
The Buddha, needing to cross the Ganges, summons a little cloud which dutifully ferries him over

HEALER, ZOUAVE JACOB
Auguste Henri Jacob, known as Le Zouave (1828 - 1913), French soldier, forced out of army because of healing and clairvoyant powers, became noted healer

CLAIRVOYANCE
A satirical and sceptical comment by Cruikshank. Date: 1845

CRYSTAL GAZING
A woman gazes into a crystal ball Date: 1911

APPARITION OF VENUS
A lady is wakened by the appearance of Venus - and one of her doves - in her bedroom

HAMLET AND GHOST
Hamlet with the ghost of his father on the battlements of Elsinore

Devil dancing with worshippers at Sabbat
The Devil dances with four of his worshippers, while demons cavort over their heads Date: circa 1600

WITCHES AND A FAMILIAR
Two witches and a familiar - the traditional Black Dog Date: circa 1600

DANCING FOR RAIN, SERBIA
RAINMAKING, SERBIA In times of drought, young Dodoles go from village to village in costumes garnished with foliage, dancing while the peasants water the ground Date: 1912

GOOD FORTUNE SYMBOLS
China The deity Kiang-tse-ya holds good fortune talismans - the Ying and Yang, and a group of symbols from the I-ching

SLOCUMS VISITOR
American circumnavigator Joshua Slocum, lying sick in the cabin of the Spray, is protected by the pilot of the Pinta, one of Columbuss ships. Date: 26 July 1895

SUNNY ISLAND
Life in the Summer Land : an excursion to Sunny Island Date: 1887

SPIRIT MISSIONARY
Beulah, a spirit missionary, who devotes herself to guiding errant mortals into the true path of spirituality Date: 1887

UNHAPPY SPIRITS
Unhappy spirits in the Spirit World, bitterly regretting now that they did not behave themselves while on Earth Date: 1887

SPIRIT PHOTO - BUGUET
French photographer Edouard Buguet depicted in the act of faking a spirit photograph Date: circa 1870

SPIRIT PHOTO DEANE
Mrs Mackenzie sits, unaware that the spirit of John Ruskin is floating over her right shoulder Date: 1920s

PARANORMAL / MAGIC / WIZARDS
LE QUADRUPLE ORACLE DES DAMES ET DES DEMOISELLES A French manual of popular magic Date: circa 1900

JULIAS BUREAU
Julias Bureau, created by journalist W T Stead, claims to receive messages from the Borderland : Punch mocks... Date: 1893

MEDIUM / MILLER
CHARLES VICTOR MILLER American medium who held dramatic seances in Paris : materialisation of a figure Date: 1908

POST PARRISH 6
At Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Ethel Post Parrish materialises the spirit of Silver Belle picture 6 of 7 Date: 1953

POST PARRISH 5
At Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Ethel Post Parrish materialises the spirit of Silver Belle picture 5 of 7 Date: 1953

PALLADINO AT GENOVA
Eusapia raises a table while controlled by Morselli, at Genova, 12 July 1906 picture 1 of 2 Date: 1854 - 1918

BODHISATTVA
A BODHISATTVA This sign represents a powerful protective force of the Buddhists Date: 1933

HAUNTED BY SHADOW
The man who was haunted by his own shadow Date: circa 1840s

WITCH WRECKING SHIP
A malicious witch of south- west Scotland calls up a storm which sinks a boat

YAKHOUT SHAMANS / MONGOLIA
Yakhout Shamans of Mongolia

Apparitions: a man and his doppelganger
A man haunted by his own ghost. Date: circa 1840

Apparitions: Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob Marley
The miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business colleague Marley. Date: 1835

Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, public penance London
Eleanor Cobham(c.1400-1452), Duchess of Gloucester, accused of practising magic to help her husband Humphrey to the throne, does public penance in the streets of London. Date: 13th November 1441

Nostradamus magic mirror, c. 1570
Nostradamus is commanded by Catherine de Medicis, Queen of France, to predict the future of the French royals : he does so, using a magic mirror in which figures seem to appear. Date: circa 1570

AMERICAN SEA SERPENT
The great American sea serpent - scol ophis atlanticus Date: 1848

STARTING A HAILSTORM
Witches cause a hailstorm with their magic Date: 1626

GHOST OF PATROCLUS
Achilles tries - in vain - to seize hold of the ghost of Patroclus Date: BC

MEUNIER ZODIAC CAPRICORN
Date: circa 1900

SLEEPWALKER ON ROOF 1870
Near Newmarket, England, a sleepwalker who has climbed onto the roof in his nightshirt is lassooed by his brother in case he should wake and fall Date: 1870

Ecstatic Moslems
MOSLEM FANATICS At the Mohurrum Festival, Iran, devotees mutilate themselves while in a state of ecstasy Date: 1913

Charcot and Asylum Patient
UNE LECON CLINIQUE A LA SALPETRIERE J M Charcot demonstrates the symptoms of hysteria with a patient under hypnosis Date: 1887

PARANORMAL / MAGIC
A magicians consulting room, original William Hogarth Date: 17th Century

ASTROLOGY / ZODIAC
The twelve signs - a medieval series Date: 1489

Stanislawa Tomczyk demonstrates psychokinesis
Stanislawa Tomczyk, Polish medium, demonstrates psychokinesis while under hypnosis, to Ochorowicz, at Wisla, Poland, raising small objects. Date: 1909

The Sun depicted on a Tarot card
The Sun, as depicted on a Tarot card. Date: 1926

The Moon depicted on a Tarot card
The Moon, as depicted on a Tarot card. Date: 1926

Tarot Card 2 - La Papesse (The Female Pope). Date: 20th century

Wun-nes-tou, Medicine Man of the Blackfeet tribe
Wun-nes-tou, Medicine Man of the Blackfeet (Blackfoot) tribe of American Natives. Date: circa 1830

RAYNHAM HALL GHOST 1936
Raynham Hall, Norfolk; figure not seen but unwittingly photographed on the staircase possibly Dorothy Walpole, aka The Brown Lady Date: 1936

Fortune teller in Greenwich Park, south east London 1843
A fortune teller speaks to a young couple in Greenwich Park, south east London. Date: 1843

The Throat Chakra. Date: 1927

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