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Daniel Dunglas Home Magician or Psychic?
Daniel Dunglas Home was the most celebrated medium of the 19th century. Although his name is not very well known today, he astonished audiences, friends, heads of state, and the rich and famous with startling paranormal feats and levitation. His seemingly impossible powers bewildered those who witnessed them, including many respected scientists and journalists.
Or was he a gifted magician, far ahead of his time, who was able to fool even the closest of observers with slight of hand and magician’s illusions? Although there were certainly many skeptics among his contemporaries who denounced him as a clever fraud, they could never really prove how he accomplished his many incredible demonstrations. To this day, there is much mystery surrounding Home.
A CHARMING PRODIGY
Home (pronounced “Hume”) was born in 1833 in Currie, Scotland. Like many people who seek the public spotlight or a presence in “show business,” Home seems to have exaggerated or fabricated details of his early life and heritage. For exam
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Daniel Dunglas Home
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One of the most prominent spiritual mediums of the nineteenth century was Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume). Born in Currie, Scotland in 1833, his mother’s ancestors were renowned locally for their gifts of “second sight” or their ability to foresee the future. In 1841, Daniel moved to the United States with his aunt and uncle, eventually settling in the Greenville section of Norwich. He attended the local school but being a loner by nature he did not make friends easily. He preferred solitary walks in the wooded areas nearby and was a devout reader of the Bible.
By the time he was eighteen years old, the stories of Daniel Home’s clairvoyant powers reverberated throughout the spiritualist community. He soon was conducting séances at the homes of some of the state’s wealthiest and elite citizens. During one well-documented séance at the Manchester home of the successful silk manufacturer Ward Cheney, participants in the séance witnessed “spirit light” emanations and Home twice levitating his body to the ceili
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Home, Daniel Dunglas
HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833–1886), spiritualist medium, born near Edinburgh on 20 March 1833, was son of William Home, by Elizabeth McNeill, who came of a family supposed to be gifted with second sight. His father was a natural son of Alexander, tenth earl of Home. His surname was pronounced Hume. He was taken when about nine years old to Greeneville, Connecticut, by an aunt, Mrs. McNeill Cook, who had adopted him. He was a delicate, nervous, sensitive child, and a seer of visions. Soon after his mother's death, of which she is said to have had a presentiment, and he ‘telepathic’ warning, mysterious ‘raps’ were heard in his aunt's house. She called in the local clergy of all denominations to exorcise the supposed evil spirits, and, their prayers failing to put an end to the noises, turned Home, whom she suspected to be responsible for them, out of the house. The raps accompanied him. He found friends, however, who welcomed both him and the raps, and for the pleasure of hearing ‘messages’ spelt out of them
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