Friederike Hauffe
Friederike Hauffe (1801-1829) also known as Frederica Hauffe, or the Seeress of Prevorst was a German clairvoyant medium and somnambulist.[1][2]
Hauffe had suffered from convulsions, and fell into spontaneous trances. She claimed to have communicated with spirits and experienced visions. Hauffe was made famous by the physician Justinus Kerner who examined her at Weinsberg in 1826.[3] He described her trances in his book Die Seherin von Prevorst (1829). She spent much of her time in a state of somnambulism. Kerner recorded alleged instances of clairvoyance and prophetic dreams. However, psychical researcher Frank Podmore noted that the "evidence is in all cases inconclusive, and sometimes indicative of collusion with members of the Seeress's family."[4]
References
- ↑ Dickerson, Vanessa D. (1996). Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural. University of Missouri Press. pp. 31-32. ISBN 0-8262-1081-3
- ↑ Godwin, Joscelyn. (2015). Upstate Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State. State University of New York. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-4384-5595-2
- ↑ Baker, Robert A. (1990). They Call it Hypnosis. Prometheus Books. pp. 218-220. ISBN 978-0-87975-576-8
- ↑ Podmore, Frank. (1909). Mesmerism and Christian Science: A Short History of Mental Healing. Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs. pp. 214-116
Further reading
- Justinus Kerner. (1845 edition). The Seeress of Prevorst: Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-Life of Man, and the Inter-Diffusion of a World of Spirits in the One We Inhabit. London, J. C. Moore.