Psychometric Portraiture of the Victorian Era: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.
As late 1880's gentlewoman, author, traveler, and psychic investigator E. Katherine Bates writes, "psychometry is the science of learning to receive impressions and intuitions from the atmosphere surrounding any material object--a letter, a ring, a piece of pebble or shell, and so naturally this is especially the case in letters written and signed by us." One of Bates' many pieces written as she traveled the world investigating psychic phenomena, Psychometric Portraiture of the Victorian Era, addresses the psychometry of paintings and portraits.
E. Katharine Bates
E. Katherine Bates was an English gentlewoman of independent means. She traveled the world—America, Australia, Hong Kong, Alaska, etc.—pursuing her developing interest in psychic events in the 1880s and documenting it in a series of publications.
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Psychometric Portraiture of the Victorian Era - E. Katharine Bates
Psychometric Portraiture of the Victorian Era
E. Katherine Bates
Varla Ventura
Paranormal Parlor
This ebook edition first published in 2011 by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.
With offices at:
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Copyright © 2011 by Red Wheel/Weiser LLC. All rights reserved.
Excerpted from Seen and Unseen by E. Katharine Bates. New York: Dodge Publishing, 1908.
eISBN: 978-1-61940-016-0
Cover design by Jim Warner
Cover photograph Shutterstock © Kateryna Larina.
Table of Contents
Psychometric Symptoms
A FAMILY PORTRAIT AND PSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Psychometric Symptoms
I have a fetish for cemeteries. I love the headstones—the marbleized testimony to lives once lived. And there is nothing quite as soothing as the ghostly silence that seems to follow one while walking over stone pathways and trimmed lawns, reading the names of the deceased, seeking out the prominent citizens and oldest tombs.
Recently I found myself walking where a cemetery once was—Lincoln Park in my fair city of San Francisco. It is home to a scenic public golf course that sports views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the cerulean waters of the bay, and it is also host to the remnants of Lincoln Park Cemetery. Because of city expansions in the 1930s, many of San Francisco's boneyards were sent south to Colma—a city with more dead residents than living. Here and there, however, traces of the former graveyards can be found. On the golf course itself the observant will notice remnants of a marble arch, a stone bench, and a granite monolith. (I won't speculate about what sleeps beneath the grassy lawns of the parkway—the city claims they moved all the bodies with the headstones, but the horror fan in me knows there are coffins left below.)
This park is also home to the beautiful Palace of the Legion of Honor, one of the oldest art museums in San Francisco. After an hour or so wandering in the foggy air, exploring the cemetery's remains, I decided to warm up with a walk through the museum. This brought to mind Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo—a suspenseful tale set in San Francisco. Kim Novak's character Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton visits the Legion of