Raising Spirits
How a Conjuror’s Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment| By: | J. Barry |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137378934 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137378941 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.