Forest Wizard Archive

Author: Forest Wizard

  • Full Digital Collection Download

    The Esoteric Archive of Rochester/Forest Wizard Archive collected digital scans (primarily PDFs) of public-domain esoteric/religious/occult literature.

    To download all files in the collection at once, please click this link to access the shared folder with the zip file and inventory.

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    That link takes you to a shared Proton Drive Folder where you’ll find a zip of the archive PDFs (8.38GB), as well as four versions of the archive record.

    To see a full PDF of the titles included in this zip, please check out this file.

  • The Fox Sisters in Rochester, NY

    Earlier this year I shared a printable map of eight locations in downtown Rochester, NY that are notable in the history of the religion of Modern Spiritualism. While that map includes a lot of information, I want to walk all of that out a bit more in this blog post. [Download that map here]

    Background

    Spiritualists celebrate the founding of their religion on March 31, 1848. It was on this day that the two youngest Fox sisters, Maggie (Margaretta) and Katie (Catherine/Catie/Kate/Kathie/Cathie), first communicated with a disembodied spirit in their small family home in Hydesville (an area since incorporated into the city of Newark), NY.

    The Fox Sisters did not invent the concept of Spiritualism, but they did popularize it in a way others had not. And, the reason for that dates to more than 20 years before those events would unfold in their humble home.

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