Spirited away: The death of Little Eva and the farewell performances of "Katie King"

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The spiritualism in the literary works published in the 1850s is discussed, with special reference to Harriet Beacher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852), and Robert Dale Owen's 'Katie King'. The stylized representational modes that characterize the dying of many characters in literary texts and others cultural productions were appropriated by nineteenth-century spiritualists to perform farewells between spirits and the living within many seances that proliferated on both sides of the Atlantic from the late 1840s onward.

Works, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Critical essay, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Novel), Katie King (Novel), Owen, Robert Dale (American state legislator)

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"The spirit will tell you to see a doctor": the viability of espiritismo in bio-medicine

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The author discusses the history and practice of espiritismo, or spiritism, and its relationship to ethnic background, mental health, psychotherapy, and modern medicine. Personal narratives involving the practice are described.

Care and treatment, Mental health, Psychotherapy, Mind and body therapies, Mind body medicine

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"The Tell-Tale Heart" as Evil Eye event

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Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" as a portrayal of the Evil Eye is discussed. Folk cultural context of this concept, evidence for Poe's familiarity with it, and reader response to the text are discussed.

Portrayals, 19th century AD, American literature, Poe, Edgar Allan, Evil eye, The Tell-Tale Heart (Short fiction)

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