From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment

In Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions (1681), Joseph Glanvill marveled at those so possessed by the devil that they became his mouthpiece: “For Ventriloquy, or speaking from the bottom of the Belly, 'tis a thing I think as strange and difficul...

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Main Author: Schmidt, Leigh Eric (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
In: Church history
Year: 1998, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 274-304
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