Materialization was the word used in the circles of psychical
researchers to describe a phenomenon that first became common in séances
in the 1870s: the summoning of spirit presences in the form of objects
and of bodies, or of traces of objects and bodies—touches to the cheek
or hands of the sitters, slaps or caresses or breezes as of something
passing, sometimes fingerprints or other marks, the sounds of bells
ringing or ethereal music, apported flowers and other gifts from the
spirits, and, above all, ectoplasmic manifestations...
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