{"product_id":"the-tablerappers-the-victorians-and-the-occult","title":"The Table-Rappers: The Victorians And The Occult","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian age was the most haunted of all. At dark seances spectators goggled at spirit hands descending form above  and fondled spirits who had coyly emerged from cabinets. The age of reason had done away with the supernatural. But the Victorians wanted it back and they made certain they got it. Astrology and fortune-telling enjoyed a boom  and in country districts the witches and the cunning men plied their arts  selling and casting spells  and applying the evil eye. The Table-Rappers deals with all aspects of the Victorian occult - the credulity of believers certain that a thing of gauze and muslin was their dead aunt  the venom of the professional mediums who sabotaged each others seances  and the still unexplained phenomena - levitations  the fire test where mediums handled red-hot coals  and strange materialisations where both spirits and mediums were in the room at the same time. Behind all the heavy breathing in darkened rooms  the implausible spirit photographs  the interminable dotty table-rapping and inconsequential scribbling on slates  lay a whole world of absurd tricksters  well-meaning dolts  credulous gulls and some unforgettable characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948935475253,"sku":"ByrdShop_0750936843","price":91.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780750936842.jpg?v=1770062998","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tablerappers-the-victorians-and-the-occult","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}