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		More Notable Paranormal People



		Describing all of the intuitive people in history would be an impossible task. For one thing, the parameters of what is mystical, psychic, prophetic, or fraud are difficult to define.



		For example, where do you place witchcraft in the psychic lexicon? Is it possible that many of the people who were proclaimed and persecuted as evil witches were merely psychic? Perhaps the Grand Inquisitors and judges of the Salem Witch Trials were simply afraid of the phenomena that they didn't understand and that's why they condemned those who practiced them so severely.



		The following table lists a few of the folks who spoke up with some ideas that weren't always readily accepted by their peers.



		A Psychic ''Who's Who" for Recent Centuries



		Tituba



		1692



		Slave and fortune-teller who confessed being a witch at the Salem Witch Trials.



		Emanuel Swedenborg



		(16881772)



		Swedish mystic who defined divinity as infinite love; described out-of-body experiences; formed the roots of the 19th-century interest in the paranormal.



		Franz Mesmer



		(17341815)



		Father of modern hypnotism; mistakenly believed that magnets and their fields produced the hypnotic trances he induced in his patients; also influenced interest in the paranormal.



		William Blake



		(17571827)



		Mystical artist and poet whose visions guided his work.



		The Fox Sisters (a.k.a. the Rochester Rappers)



		1848



		Two sisters (Kate, 15, and and Maggie, 12) whose seances invoked spirits to rap on and levitate objects; influenced wide-spread Spiritualist movement throughout 19th-century America.



		Daniel Dunglas Home



		(18331886)



		Spiritualism's best-known physical medium; produced human levitation, body elongation, and spirit materialization.



		Madame Helena Blavatsky



		(18311891)



		Made the Theosophical movement popular.

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