Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-03-21
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COUNT FOR MANIFESTATIONS.
. RUSSIAN sPIRlTUALIsT
Some of His seances Investigated by
the Society for Psychical Re.
search-A Doctors Tests-Many
Remarkable Achievements by a
Medium.

phenomena and recently it has
evolved Sambor, spirit medium, who
has attracted the attention of Europe
to his seances. The secretary for
Russia of the Society for Psycholog-
ical Research is M. M. Petrovo-Salo-
vovo, of st. Petersburg. The secre-
tary has made a study of the work OF
this medium, especially with reference
to the physical phenomena attending
his seances. Sambor is scarcely 80
years old, well built and muscular. In
his seances he goes into frances in
which the physical phenomena of
| epilepsy are observed. He is capable
of speech in these frances, but it is
speech that has reference only to the
experiments which are being con-
Quoted.
Salovovo in his study of the physical
| phenomena attending these seances
does not enter into the spirit NANTES
tations, but considers only the phys
ical showings that are unaccountably
made.
One of the famous series of seanceS
gone through with by Sambor was at
the house of S. A. Bezsonoff, of st.
Petersburg. The host was disbe-
lever in the spiritual phenomena that
were promised and was prepared TO
question even the physical showings.
Several other disbelievers were pres
ent. In all IA persons formed in a
circle, sitting, with hands placed
palms down on their knees. Outside
this circle was a small oval table, hav-
ing on it pieces of glass covered with
luminous paint, a bell and a guitar
| On the mantel over the fireplace was
music box that before the opening
| of the first seances had been allowed
to rundown.
The medium had been searched
carefully. He came into the circle
chain, drawing up an ordinary Aus
trian chair, seating himself with his
back to the fireplace On the mediums
left was DR.. Tour, an unbeliever, and
on his right was the host Each of
these men took firm hold of Sambor's
wrists, and, as far as possible, held
| firmly to them. Lights were put out
aud the medium passed into a trance
state.
| Suddenly luminous stars broke out
in the dark, more numerous on the
right of Sambor than on his left The
medium stood up and all the strings
of the guitar on the table outside the
circle twinkled as if a set of fingers
had swept across them. A piece of
luminous glass fell off the table, and
a small object-afterward discovered
to be piece of candle-dropped from
above to the table and rolled off on
the floor. The unwound music box on
the mantel played several airs and the
first seance ended by the medium,
still in his trance, calling for tight.
1 DR.. Tour had not been at all salts
fed with the experiment. The medium
had been perspiring freely, and, owing
to the dampness of his wrists and the
strong muscular contractions of the
trance medium, he had been unable to
hold the mans arms at all times. So,
at his request, he had his wrist firmly
bound to the wrist of the medium in
the next seance.
Sitting on the same Austrian chair
as before Sambor called for lights out
and the second seance began. He
shivered and moved uneasily for a
moment, then dropped to the floor.
snoring and occasionally grooming as
If in agony. Then from this prone
, position he began rising in the air un.
) til the arms of Tour and Bezsonoff
, were extended straight up. DR.. Tour
with his hand drawn up as far as nos
I sible, reached out with the other hand
TO find the mans body, but could not
r touch it with either hand or foot. Sud.
denly as he was reaching cut he felt
: the soles of two feet on the arm that
mad been bound to Sambor's. and at
the same time Bezsonoff exclaimed
, that the mediums hips were resting
against his head and shoulders.
The medium then descended to the
, floor and in an instant rose again,
! taking the Austrian chair with him
5 Two or three star groups snapped and
/ sparkled in the rear of the room and
5 Bezsonoff said he felt that the Aus.
J trian chair was hanging on his arm by
the back. The medium fell on a
nearby sofa in commissions, calling for
; light, and when it was turned on the
chair hung to Bezsonoffs arm. though
he still held firmly to the medium S
} wrist.
In the next manifestation Tours
hand was firmly bound to one of the
mediums. and heavy oak chair from
the hall was substituted for the first
one.
When the lights had been put out
the bell that had been put on the
table rose in the air. ringing. its out.
lines visible because OF a light coating
of luminous paint. There were a few