| 词条 | Fred P. Evans |
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Fred P. Evans (born 1862) was a British spiritualist medium. He was born in Liverpool on 9 June 1862. His great grandfather was the Welsh social reformer Robert Owen. As a young man, Evans worked as a sailor and claimed to have experienced strange psychical events.[1] In 1884 he moved to San Francisco where he gave séances to the public. Evans was an early proponent of slate-writing mediumship.[2] British biologist Alfred Russel Wallace who attended a séance with Evans in 1887 was convinced the slate-writing phenomena was genuine evidence for spirit communication and reported that there were five different coloured messages.[3] Slate-writing was popular in the late-nineteenth century but was discredited as fraudulent after investigations from magicians and psychical researchers.[2] In 1898, the magician Chung Ling Soo revealed the fraudulent slate-writing methods that Evans, Henry Slade and others had utilized.[4] References1. ^Owen, J. J. (1893). Psychography: Marvelous Manifestations of Psychic Power Given Through the Mediumship of Fred P. Evans, Known as the "Independent Slate-Writer". San Francisco, Hicks-Judd Company. 2. ^1 Melton, J. Gordon. (2013). The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena. Visible Ink Press. pp. 308-309. {{ISBN|978-1578592098}} 3. ^Wallace, Alfred Russel. (1908). [https://archive.org/stream/myliferecordofev00wall#page/352/mode/2up My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions] London: Chapman & Hall. pp. 352-354 4. ^Soo, Chung Ling. (1898). [https://archive.org/details/spiritslatewriti00sooc Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena]. Munn & Company. Further reading
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