Eusapia Palladino
✓ Source-basedrisingItalian spiritualist (1854-1918)
Lived 1854 to 1918 · aged 64
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Eusapia Palladino was an Italian spiritualist physical medium. She claimed extraordinary powers such as the ability to levitate tables, communicate with the dead through her spirit guide John King, and to produce other supernatural phenomena.
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Eusapia Palladino, Warsaw, Poland, 1893
Palladino, 1894; Julian Ochorowicz (left) controls right hand; Dr. Ségard controls left hand and feet.
Table levitates during Palladino's séance at home of astronomer Camille Flammarion, France, 25 November 1898. There are two women seated at the table. Palladino sits at the far short end.
Mandolin (striped instrument, top, right) levitates above Palladino's head in front of the curtains at the far short end of the table during Palladino's séance in Munich, Germany, 13 March 1903.
Portrait by Albert von Keller, c. 1904
From 1909 book by Cesare Lombroso
Sketch showing the layout of a séance in the 1908 Naples investigation.
PalladinoAbout this person
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1854 to 1918 · aged 64
Written about in
10 languages
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