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Trevor H. Hall, the Glossary

Trevor Henry Hall (1910–1991) was a British author, surveyor, and sceptic of paranormal phenomena.^[1]

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British sceptics
Critics of Spiritualism
Historians of magic

Alan Gauld

Alan Gauld (born 1932) is a British parapsychologist, psychologist and spiritualist writer best known for his research on the history of hypnotism and mediumship.

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Asa Briggs

Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016) was an English historian.

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Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume; 20 March 183321 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will.

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Douglas Blackburn

Douglas Blackburn (6 August 1857, Southwark – 28 March 1929, Tonbridge) was an English journalist and novelist, who worked in the Transvaal and Natal between 1892 and 1908.

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Edmund Gurney

Edmund Gurney (23 March 184723 June 1888) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist.

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Eric Dingwall

Eric John Dingwall (1890–1986) was a British anthropologist, psychical researcher and librarian. Trevor H. Hall and Eric Dingwall are British sceptics.

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Florence Cook (medium)

Florence Eliza Cook (ca 1856 – 22 April 1904) was a medium who claimed to materialise a spirit, "Katie King".

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George Albert Smith (filmmaker)

George Albert Smith (4 January 1864 – 17 May 1959) was an English stage hypnotist, psychic, magic lantern lecturer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, inventor and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul.

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Georgess McHargue

Georgess McHargue (June 7, 1941 – July 18, 2011) was an American writer and poet. Trevor H. Hall and Georgess McHargue are critics of Spiritualism.

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Gordon Stein

Gordon Stein (April 30, 1941 – August 27, 1996) was an American author, physiologist, and activist for atheism and religious skepticism.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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John Lorne Campbell

John Lorne Campbell FRSE LLD OBE (Iain Latharna Caimbeul) (1 October 1906 – 25 April 1996) was a Scottish historian, farmer, environmentalist and folklorist, and recognized scholar of both Celtic studies and Scottish Gaelic literature.

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K. M. Goldney

Kathleen Mary Hervey Goldney (1894–1992) best known as K. M. Goldney was a British parapsychologist and writer. Trevor H. Hall and k. M. Goldney are British writers.

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Levitation (paranormal)

Levitation or transvection, in the paranormal or religious context, is the claimed ability to raise a human body or other object into the air by mystical means.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close-up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means.

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Marcello Truzzi

Marcello Truzzi (September 6, 1935 – February 2, 2003) was an American sociologist and academic who was professor of sociology at New College of Florida and later at Eastern Michigan University, founding co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), a founder of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and director for the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc.

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Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz (December 21, 1925 – October 20, 2012) was an American scientific skeptic and secular humanist.

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Piet Hein Hoebens

Piet Hein Hoebens (29 September 1948, Utrecht – 22 October 1984) was a Dutch journalist, skeptic, and critic of parapsychology.

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Ray Hyman

Ray Hyman (born June 23, 1928) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and a noted critic of parapsychology.

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Roger Luckhurst

Roger Luckhurst is a British writer and academic and since 2020 the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College.

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Ruth Brandon

Ruth Brandon (born 1943) is a British journalist, historian and author. Trevor H. Hall and Ruth Brandon are British sceptics and critics of Spiritualism.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Skepticism

Skepticism, also spelled scepticism in British English, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma.

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Society for Psychical Research

The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is a nonprofit organisation in the United Kingdom.

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The Folklore Society

The Folklore Society (FLS) is a registered charity under English law based in London, England for the study of folklore.

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The Magic Circle (organisation)

The Magic Circle is a British organisation dedicated to promoting and advancing the art of magic.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Victorian Studies

Victorian Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Indiana University Press.

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William Crookes

Sir William Crookes (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy.

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William Hodson Brock

William Hodson Brock (born 1936) is a British chemist and science historian.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_H._Hall

Trevor H. Hall, the Glossary

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See also

British sceptics

Critics of Spiritualism

Historians of magic

References