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FRIDAY OCCULT HISTORY | 004

Family Game Or Tool Of The Devil? : Mysterious Origin Of Ouija

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Ouija board, spirit board, talking board, spirit of the coin, whatever the name is, everyone got the basic idea of what Ouija Board suppose to be.
Apart from being a family game, ouija board also are part of the spiritualist movement where mediums began to use to communicate with the dead.
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FRIDAY OCCULT HISTORY | 003

The Salem Witch Trials : 17th Century Most Infamous Trials

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The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings & prosecutions of people accused of practicing witchcraft in the colonial state of Massachusetts.
It was held between February 1692 to all the way May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of 20 people with 14 of them women.
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The 'Last' Witch of Ireland : The Burning of Bridget Cleary

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Bridget Cleary, born as Bridget Boland around 1869 in Ballyvadlea, County Tipperary, Ireland. She married to Michael Cleary in August 1887 where she works as a dressmaker's apprentice.
In 1895, Bridget had evudently been ill for several days. Along that time, her condition was sufficiently grave that a priest administer the last rites.
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THE FOX SISTERS : The Birth of Spiritualism

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From left to right: Margaret, Kate & Leah Fox were 3 sisters from Hydesville, New York who played an important role in the creation of the Spiritualism cult or movement
They were born in the 1830s in Hydesville, New York and in 1848 is where the journey of Spiritualism started.
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