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The tricks of the medium Leonora Piper

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Similar to my long thread which exposes the tricks of the medium Daniel Dunglas Home on this thread I will be documenting the fraud and tricks of the medium Leonora Piper.

Before I start the criticism of Piper and an exposure of her mediumship I would be interested in knowing what peoples opinion of this medium is? Please share your thoughts. Thanks.
 
Someone needs to start a thread on Madame Leota. Think of all those people going to Disneyland parks and being led into the woo for life.

THE MOUSE IS EVIL!!

/derail

Sorry about that, but it needed to be said.
Also, saw the named Leonora and my brain went directly to Disney and Leota for some reason.
 
jhunter1163 said:
I proceed from the assumption that all mediums are frauds, so I assume that Piper is also. That said, I know that she was studied fairly extensively. I believe that she had at least one confederate among the investigators.
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Piper had sittings with many different investigators over a long period of time. The main ones included Oliver Lodge, Frederic William Henry Myers, William James, James H. Hyslop and Richard Hodgson. Now some of these investigators were credulous (they had been duped by other fraud mediums) but I disagree that they were working with Piper as a confederate. I would be interested in knowing how you have come to that belief.
 
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Don't have the time to go through my materials now (or for a while), but I seem to recall not that one of the investigators was a confederate (that was her husband's role, iirc), but there was strong reason to believe one of the investigators ended up having an affair with Piper, thereby making his investigations and testimony useless.

Could be wrong, though. I'm doing three different things now and may be mixing my mediums.
 
Garrette said:
Don't have the time to go through my materials now (or for a while), but I seem to recall not that one of the investigators was a confederate (that was her husband's role, iirc), but there was strong reason to believe one of the investigators ended up having an affair with Piper, thereby making his investigations and testimony useless.

Could be wrong, though. I'm doing three different things now and may be mixing my mediums.
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Piper's mediumship truly has been debunked, she was not in contact with spirits and she was not utilising any ESP. Joseph McCabe, Edward Clodd, Dr. Ivor Lloyd Tuckett, Andrew Lang, Joseph Jastrow, Dr. Millais Culpin, Massimo Polidoro etc etc have all documented the facts in their books which show this. I will get round to quoting them all. Unfortunately the spiritualists never read this material.

As for Piper she was not in any affairs with any of her investigators. You are most likely confusing Mina Crandon with Leonora Piper.

Mina Crandon was well known for having slept with her investigators and it is widely known that she had an affair with the psychic investigator Hereward Carrington.
 
Oops. Yes, it was Mina Crandon. Sorry about that, and thanks for the fix.
 
Your investigative threads on the old spiritualist mediums are among my favorites here, DoomMetal. Have you considered putting up a site about spiritualists and posting articles about your findings? It's probably a lot of work, but I think it would be an interesting site.
 
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