Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead? When confronted with trauma of the kind Covid presents, it is natural to want to make sense of the death and devastation around us. This it seems is the catalyst for a surge in seances, speaking with the dead and other acts of spiritualism, sweeping across America.
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