Eddy Brothers
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The Eddy Brothers refers to William Eddy and Horatio Eddy, popular Spiritualist mediums of the 1870s.
[edit] History
During the 1870s, the Eddy brothers held seances in Chittenden, Vermont, claiming to materialize spirits of the dead including drowned sailors, Native Americans, and soldiers who died in the American Civil War. Henry Steel Olcott, a New York Daily Graphic reporter with a lifelong interest in Spiritualism wrote a number of newspaper articles and a book recounting the Eddy brothers seances. The Eddy brothers were also visited by self-professed psychic and mystic, Madame Blavatsky.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Nevill Drury (16 March 2011). Wisdom Seekers: The Rise of the New Spirituality. O Books. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-84694-512-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=AWmH-lia1fcC&pg=PA23. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
[edit] Further reading
- People from the Other World, Henry Steel Olcott. American Publishing Company, 1875. Reprint by Charles E Tuttle Company 1972.
- Priestess of the Occult by Gertrude Marvin Williams, Alfred A Knopf, 1946.
- HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky by Sylvia Cranston, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993.
