The Spiritsdetails

The Spirits [1865]

1865

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We see a heading, Les Spirites (the spirists), drawn as if from the back of a stage or platform in a dimly-lit room or theatre. There’s a large audience, but on stage maybe half a dozen people kneeling on either side of a table with a drawer, facing the table, on which are dancing three giant beetles with antlers, one with a bell, one with a tambourine, one with a guitar.

This image is a banner running the full width of the page at the start of an article entitled as follows (the French test is included under the table; i have added an English translation):

Which is, in English,

This is from the issue of La Via Parisienne dated 14th October, 1865.

Contacting the spirits of the dead was a very popular pasttime in the 1860s.

spirits, ghosts, spooky, performance, dance, dancing, beetles, insects, musical instruments, guitars, people, kneeling

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