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Medicine in the Middle Ages

Note 84 — THE DEMONOMANIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (continued 2)

Thomas C. (Thomas Chalmers) Minor translation

When we question the Fakirs of India as to the phenomena of Spiritualism, they answer that they are produced by spirits. “The Spirits” they say are the Souls of our ancestors, serving us now as mediums; we loan them our natural fluid to combine with theirs, and by this mixture they establish a fluid body, by the aid of which they act on matter, as you have seen.” (Paul Gibier, “Le Spiritisme.”)

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