

No more than two or three Séances should be conducted weekly, and each should last no more than two hours unless the spirits ask for an extension. Strangers should be admitted to the Séance circle carefully, introduced only after at least six sittings have been held with the same persons. Several mediums, most notably the Davenport Brothers, conducted Séances for audiences numbering over a thousand. Hands are placed flat on the table, fingers touching, or sometimes clasped. A circular arrangement of chairs around a table seems to work best, with no more than eight sitters. Sitters who are worried about the proceedings or are overly skeptical tend to depress results. Younger sitters often get better results. Participants should be nearly equally divided by gender. General observances are followed to help ensure success. Séances are most often held in the home of either the medium or one of the sitters, but they can take place anywhere two or more people gather for such purpose. Most modern Séances involve mental Mediumship and are more informal. Early spiritualist Séances were dramatic and theatrical, taking place in darkened parlours around circular tables and featuring physical mediumistic feats. Séances were popular during the rise of Spiritualism and continue to be conducted in modern times. Not much else on such spirit meetings appeared until the meteoric rise of the Fox Sisters in the mid-1800s. Dee and Some Spirits, the first recorded Séance. In 1659 Reverend Meric Casaubon wrote A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed Between Dr.


References to Séance communications date back as far as the writings of Porphyry in the 3rd century C.E. Séances are conducted in many paranormal investigations of haunted places in order to produce evidence of Haunting, or to obtain information about Ghosts thought to be present. A Séance is a sitting organized for the purpose of receiving spirit communications or paranormal manifestations via a Medium.
