Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-25
A Trance sensation.
a CURIOUS HIsToRY,-A CAROLINE CoUN
TY TRANCE MEDIUM. .


TY TRANCE MEDIUM. .
Miss Fannie Lairimonr, the young lady
who created such q sensation in Caroline
county, Md. last winter. by her frequent
visits 10 heaven, passed into her last trance
ON Friday night, ss see had previously pre-
dicted, and remained until 10 o'clock. en-
Saturday. Quite company assembled TO
see her make her last visit. many persons
coming from distance. Many questions
were ask ed her which she answered, among
them somo very ridiculous ones, as for ex-
ample she was asked whether any of the
spirits OF departed shareholders were saved.
To this she replied that II that question was
sver answered 1t would be ny God himself
aud not by her. Miss Larrmour is not to
40 into any more frances. The incomplete
history OF her life Is to be written in the fu.
thre by her whilst in an unconscious state.
This history she has been writing for some-
time past whilst In her frances. and when
she passed out Of the frances, she would
read to the family what she had written, but
she could do only once, aud if she under
took 10 read over any portion of 1t second
time she would fall asleep before she had
read the second word. She has been assured
that this history Is to be second only TO the
bible.
Last winter the belief sprang up among
some OF her visitors that her flesh would
not hurn while sne was in her rigid condi-
tion, and In order to disprove this gentle
man placed q live coal OF fire in her hand
which burned her severely. The wound
made by the burn is said 10 have been avery
terrible one and some alarm was felt for her
by her friends In one Of her frances how
ever, she assured that on the next day she
would pass into spasm and that her hand
would be suddenly healed, and stated furth-
or that she was TO have only twentv-seven
pains arising from it. As each pain struck
her she would name certain chapter in
the bible, and we are assured that to this
day II any of those chap ers are read in her
hearing she will pass of into a deep sleep
before two lines have been read,and remain
80 until the book Is laid aside, when she
suddenly avakes.
On the morning of the day hor hand was
healed the kind lady with whom she resides
dressed the wound, and as she states that 1t
was as deep as grain of corn Is long. In
the evening at exactly the hour she named
she was taken with spasm which remain
ed upon for exactly tive minutes, and upon
her recovery she asked to have the ban
dage removed from her hand, and when 1t
was done her hand was found to be entirely
healed, aBd a uew skin formed over the
wounded place, and she has not felt single
pain In that hand since. On another occa-
sion her face and tongue swelled to enor-
nous proportions, 80 large in fact that her
tongue came ont of her mouth and she was
unable to utter an Ineligible word, and
suffered great pain. That ev ening she went
into trance. and gentleman OF unques.
tionabie veracity informs us that five min
utes after passing into the trance her tongue
was reduced to Its usual size and she spoke
plainly and without effort, and has not had
any further trouble with 1t since. On the
first of June, whilst in a trance, she inform.
ed her friends that on the 18th of that month
she would have hard contest with the
devil and predicted the exact hour Prompt-
ly at that hour on Thursday last she passed
into an unconscious state and in q minute
or two was in terrible rage and apparent
ly crazy, and actually attempted to commit
suicide. She was seized, however, and tied
into chair the work requiring the strength
of four men. After a while she informed
those near her that she had triumphed over
the devil and conquered him, ami in q min
ute or two returned TO consciousness.
In 1879 Miss Larrimour Is to take the
pulpit and preach. Some lime ago in one
Of her trsnces she wrote upon paper her
first tex and also where 1t could be found
1t is as follows: I'm my fathers house are
many mansions; ifit were not SO I would
have told you. go to prepare place for
you" JOHN XIV. Q. She will doubtless
attract large audiences.