Modern spiritualism laid bare, unmasked, dissected, and viewed from spiritualists' own teachings and from Scriptural standpoints : what it is, what its influences, to what it leads, and what its final end will be : complete in two parts, part second being an appendix and continuation of part first : also containing autobiographical sketches of the life of the author and of his travels on the American continent, the Holy Land, and in Europe ... (1887)
Wasson, John Bourbon, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · San Francisco : Bacon & Company, book and job printers · leaf 128
t different things.And winking at me, he seemed to say,If you (John) can catch my tale, you may,Ri-dalda, ralda, riddle-dal-day. As I (John) looked up, he gave one more flop,And, just then, I let my eyelids drop,When lo, on the brim of my broad chip hat,I heard a twig, leaf, or something come—spat.… … With one more wink at Jim and Joe,And a flap of his wings, he off did go.But if I (John) had had but a handful of saltTo throw on his tail Id have made him halt. But the above is but a small matter to what many Spiritual-ists do profess to both see, and hear, and feel, and there can beno reasonable…
Wasson, John Bourbon · Spiritualism · Bible and spiritualism
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