Gulled by "Mediums"
Gulled by "Mediums" is an article published in the Daily Express on 27 october 1917.
Gulled by "Mediums"
GOLDEN HARVEST REAPED FROM WIDOWS AND MOTHERS.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's lecture on "The New Revelation," reported in yesterday's "Daily Express," directs attention to the boom in spiritualism which is one of the by-products of the war.
London has never been so full of "mediums" as it is at the present time, and these harpies, who live on the gullibility of a section of the public, have never reaped such a harvest as they are now raking in week by week.
The death of so many young men in the war has been a rare business opportunity for the so-called "mediums," who profess to be able to communicate with the dead. Numbers of grief-stricker widows and mothers, anxious to clutch at any straw which promises to bridge the chasm of death, have foolishly allowed themselves to be deluded by the swindling "seance" fraternity, who pretend to receive "messages" in various forms. Guineas are rambling into the pockets of the "spook" providers.
It is a red-letter day in the annals of spookery when a man with a name comes out as a champion of "spiritualism" and vouches for the genuineness of the dark-room brotherhood.
