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	Hydesville In History, by M. E. Cadwallader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fox's family, French by origin and Rutan by name, several individuals had evinced the power of second sight— her maternal grandmother (Margaret Ackerman) who resided at Long Island, had frequent perceptions of coming events; and so vivid were these presentiments that she frequently followed phantom funerals to the grave as if they were real.
		Fox and others commenced digging in the cellar, but as the house was built on low ground and in the vicinity of a stream then much swollen by rains, it was not surprising that they were baffled by the influx of water at the distance of three feet down.
		Fox were absent from the house, still as curiosity prompted them to close observation and conversation with the invisible power, it was clear that the manifestations became more powerful in the presence of Kate, the youngest daughter, than with any one else.
	www.xooqi.com /iboox/chaps/0116/0001.html (5462 words)

	Fox sisters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sisters Catherine (1838–92), Leah (1814–90) and Margaretta (1836–93) Fox played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism.
		At the behest of her sister Leah, Kate Fox's children were taken from her by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and placed in foster care.
		Feeling exploited and betrayed by their sister Leah, who had collected and spent the great majority of the money paid to them, Margaretta and Kate admitted that the original rapping manifestations had simply been a prank, created by tying an apple to a string and hitting it against the floor or wall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_sisters (660 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fox sisters
		New York: G. Dillingham, 1888.) Sister may refer to: a female sibling a member of a sorority a female member of a religious institution or congregation, often referred to as a nun in common language a female member of a mutual organisation such as a trade union one of a pair or larger group of...
		Although the Fox sisters were mediums, each in her own right, they are generally and, we believe, more appropriately connected to the events which took place on the evening of March 31, 1848.
		Hyde has notified relatives of the Fox sisters, and the notice of the discovery will be sent to the National Order of Spiritualists, many of whom remember having made pilgrimage to the "Spook House," as it is commonly called.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fox-sisters (1911 words)

	Newspaper Story - 1888
		Margaret Fox Kane, who has been able, through long training and early muscular development, to produce peculiar rappings and knocks which were affirmed to be spiritual manifestations, and which were so skillfully done as to baffle all attempts at discovery.
		Now the Fox sisters have come forward and as a matter of long-neglected duty to the public and for their own peace of mind say boldly that theirs has been a life of deception and fraud.
		My sister Kate was the first one to discover that by swishing her fingers she could produce a certain noise with the knuckles and joints, and that the same effect could be made with the toes.
	psychicinvestigator.com /demo/Foxtxt.htm (1245 words)

	The Birth Of Spiritualism – The Story Of The Fox Sisters
		Fox were highly disturbed by these occurrences and quickly concluded that a restless ghost must plague their home.
		The Fox family invited their neighbours and other passer-bys to be witness to these astonishing events and with multiple observers’ looking on; the basement of the house was dug up – producing nothing.
		However, it was a series of confessions made by Margaret Fox later within her life that confirmed skeptic’s opinions that Spiritualism was in fact rife with con artists and scammers who preyed on the weak minded and in fact was nothing more than parlor tricks.
	www.pararesearchers.org /Psychic/fox/fox.html (917 words)

	Takao Club - Chinese Fox Myths
		The fox's accumulation of Yin is due to his nocturnal habits and this enabled the fox to easily assume the guise of woman.
		The fox repays the human favour by marrying and curing the idiot son, yet the human family prove unworthy of her through their worldly pettiness.
		The sister chances upon a wayward scholar, who quickly insinuates his way into the lives of all three fox-spirit sisters, and their immortality is soon under threat of dissolution.
	takaoclub.com /foxmyths/chinese_fox_myths.htm (2010 words)

	The Beginning of Spiritualsim: The Fox Sisters
		Fox looked all over the small house but could not find the origin of the noises.
		Fox tested the noise by asking it to rap her childrens different ages successively.
		Fox was convinced that spirit was following her daughters so it was suggested that they be split up and leave the area.
	geohanover.com /docs/fox2.htm (1224 words)

	About The First Spiritual Temple: Hydesville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The events which took place with the Fox family in Hydesville, New York, are generally considered to have initiated the Modern Spiritualist Movement.
		Beginning at around the middle of March, 1848, the Fox family began to be disturbed by the strange sounds and activities.
		These were the events which transpired with the Fox family on the evening of March 31, 1848.
	www.fst.org /fxsistrs.htm (1918 words)

	THE FOX SISTERS - FOUNDERS OF THE SPIRITUALIST MOVEMENT
		They were now joined by their older sister Leah, who had been abandoned by her husband and was living in poverty before her sisters discovered their talent for communicating with the spirits.
		The Fox sisters were routinely exposed by skeptics as fakes and it was claimed they produced their phenomena in a variety of ways ranging from toe, knee and ankle cracking to ventriloquism to assorted mechanical devices.
		An illustration of an examination of the Fox Sisters by Dr. Austin Flint in 1851.
	www.prairieghosts.com /foxsisters.html (1253 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Blithe Spirits
		The apparent mediums were Maggie and Kate Fox, 14 and 11 respectively, who in March of that year began to "communicate" with supposed spirits that had been knocking on the floor and walls of their house for the past two weeks.
		The Fox sisters' story itself has been written about several times; Weisberg's innovation is to examine it as social history, an approach that enriches the familiar story and raises it above the level of simple hoax.
		The Civil War was 13 years away, and Weisberg points out that the Fox family (including a brother and another sister) were anti-slavery in their sentiments and counted as close friends the Quaker social radicals Amy and Isaac Post, who ran a station on the Underground Railroad.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3999-2004Jun24?language=printer (792 words)

	The New Age Observer - New Age Timeline - Fox Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fox, Margaret and Catherine (1833?-1893 and 1839?-1892), spiritualists.
		Born near Bath, New Brunswick, Canada, Margaret possibly on October 7, 1833, and Catherine (known as Kate) possibly in 1839, the Fox sisters moved with their family to a farm near Hydesville in Wayne county, New York, in 1847.
		Horace Greeley was persuaded of the authenticity of the sessions, and in the New York Tribune he enthusiastically endorsed the Fox sisters' activities.
	thenewageobserver.nexuswebs.net /na_timeline_fox_sisters.shtml (574 words)

	The Door Opener: Aritcles: THE FOX SISTERS
		The Fox sisters were a pair of women who, together, founded the modern Spiritualist movement in the United States, and opened the minds of thousands of people across the country.
		As with anyone of considerable renown, rumors and skepticism surrounded the story of the Fox sisters and their "Hydesville Rappings." Though Lea Fox Fish, the girls' older sister would never make any admission of fraud, the younger sisters confessed later in life that their rappings were not genuine in nature.
		Though most now consider the Fox sisters mysterious communication with the spirit world an elaborate and well performed hoax, their legacy lives on.
	www.anopendoor.com /TDO/nagen2.htm (980 words)

	Anomalies Article: Spiritualism
		The fame of the Fox Sisters and their tour to promote their "Spiritualist" society encouraged others to discover their own talents for communicating with the dead.
		She and her sister Catharine were both alcoholics, and Margarett had become disillusioned with the whole idea of Spiritualism.
		More damning still, in 1888, the Fox Sisters made a public appearance in New York in which Margarett stated that Spiritualism was a fraud and an evil, and that herself and Catharine had been faking phenomena all the years they had been in practice.
	anomalyinfo.com /articles/ga00005.shtml (1064 words)

	Fox property purchased by Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The site of the Fox cottage, where the famous mysterious rappings were heard by the Fox Sisters on March 31, 1848, was recently purchased by the Rev. J.
		The 1948 date marks the 100th anniversary of the first manifestations heard by the sisters in the little Hydesville cottage which was purchased in 1916 by Benjamin F. Bartlett and moved to Lily Dale, NY, where it has been restored and has since become one of that community's leading attractions.
		It is the intention of the Fox Memorial Society to proceed at once with plans to improve and beautify this plot of ground which is of such deep interest to Spiritualists everywhere and which is visited every year by many people.
	www.cgazette.com /towns/Newark/History/891101136140.htm (391 words)

	The Fox Sisters
		The Foxes themselves soon noticed unusual rapping sounds that occurred in the night frightening the two younger daughters, Margaret and Kate, who then insisted on sleeping with their parents.
		The main argument used by skeptics to discredit the Fox sisters was that they created the rapping sounds themselves by cracking the bones in their toes and knuckles.
		I and many other men of truth and position have witnessed the manifestations of herself and her sisters many times under circumstances in which it was absolutely impossible for there to have been the least fraud.
	ghosts.monstrous.com /the_fox_sisters.htm (1119 words)

	What Was Then - The Fox Sisters
		Drawing depicts the Fox Sister's under- going an examination to prove their abilities as Mediums for the spirits.
		The Fox sisters first admitted to faking the tapping sounds then recanted that confession.
		Both sisters died penniless and were buried in pauper graves.
	www.whatwasthen.com /foxsisters.html (413 words)

	The Beginning of Spiritualsim: The Fox Sisters
		The idea came to her to ask for an answer to the snapping of her fingers and in this way their first communication with the unseen was established by getting it to rap once if an answer was YES and not to rap when an answer was NO.
		Kate Fox went to her brother in Auburn and Margaret to her sister in Rochester.
		In 1861, Kate Fox was engaged exclusively for Charles F. Livermore, a rich banker of New York whose wife, Estelle, died a year before.
	www.geohanover.com /docs/fox2.htm (1224 words)

	The Fox Sisters : Mistresses of Fraud - Folklore
		The Fox Family, with their three teenage daughters, lived in a modest frame house which had a reputation of being haunted.
		Thinking that a ghost might be producing the noises, they tried to respond by clapping their hands and soon evolved a code for communicating with the ghost of a peddler who had long ago visited the house and had been murdered there.
		Margaret and her sister used this and other methods to produce the raps, sometimes using an apple on a string, bouncing it on the floor out of sight behind the furniture.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art12449.asp (431 words)

	The Fox Sisters: Spiritualism's Unlikely Founders
		Fox soon became convinced that their farmhouse was haunted.
		Fox apparently refused to consider the suggestion of a prank.
		Fox later related, she then demanded, "If it was an injured spirit, make two raps." Promptly two knocks were returned.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ah/blfoxsisters (1415 words)

	VI: Fox and Kane: The Love-Life of a Hero
		For Fox and Kane this process was a lively series of letters in which Kane pleaded for Fox's love while Fox, often under the instruction of her mother, alternated between accepting his advances and pulling away for the sake of her reputation.
		It seems that Kane was willing to be seen in public with Fox because she had agreed to end her contact with spiritualism and to spend the years of his absence educating herself to be a proper woman.
		Kane scolded Fox for this last transgression but was so pleased with her promise and upcoming education that he could not help but show her off to his friends.
	www.ekkane.org /sawin/raisng6.htm (3723 words)

	Fox (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Foxing, the appearance of iron rust (Ferric OXide) on books, documents, stamps, etc. over time.
		Foxed, the process of being prosecuted for copyright infringment.
		Red Fox nickanme of Michael Sinclair, a World War II prisoner in Colditz Caslte.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_(disambiguation) (640 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / The mediums are the message
		At 16, bored by her country life, she and her sister Katy scared their mother with rapping noises they learned to make with their feet, insisting they were communicating with the dead.
		But what started as a prank snowballed, and soon there were eager crowds, and then the press, and the young Fox sisters became celebrities, cofounders of a spiritualism movement that would go on to claim over a million passionate followers.
		Fox was haunted by her deception and cowed by public opinion, but Iacuzzo doesn't care what anyone thinks.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/03/13/the_mediums_are_the_message (984 words)

	Falsehoods in the Great Controversy - Rapping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Soon carriages lined up outside their home as people came to witness the sisters supposedly communicate with the spirit of a murdered itinerant peddler rumored to have been buried in the basement of the house five years earlier.
		"My sister Katie was the first one to discover that by swishing her fingers she could produce a certain noise with the knuckles and joints, and that the same effect could be made with the toes.
		The movement was already on the decline prior to the Fox sisters' admission in 1888, and after their deaths in the 1890s it continued to decline.
	www.ellenwhite.org /egw54.htm (2387 words)

	Fox sisters on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		FOX SISTERS [Fox sisters] family of American spiritualists including Margaret, 1836-93, Leah, 1814-90, and Catherine, 1841-92.
		Sister Mary Scullion of Project H.O.M.E. and Brenda Egolf-Fox Of Habitat for Humanity Receive HomeLife's Award of Distinction For Community Service.
		Sister Christine Garcia, of the Sister School of Notre Dame in Oak Cliff, Texas, returned from her discernment in Pakistan early because of the uncertainty in the region.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FoxS1iste.asp (1078 words)

	The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As a result of their spiritualistic activities, the Fox sisters were condemned and lived in constant danger.
		They were also exploited, and eventually betrayed by their own sister, Leah, who was said to have been the beneficiary of most of the donations collected from those who came to the Fox sisters for spiritual counseling.
		Margaretta confessed that she had made all the rapping noises that fostered the movement by means of a double-jointed big toe.
	www.livingtruth.net /foxsister.html (881 words)

	Amazon.com: Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism: Books: Barbara Weisberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In her engaging study, Weisberg, a former documentary filmmaker, sets the case of the Fox sisters into the context of a 19th-century America that was developing a fascination with the world of spirits and the paranormal.
		The two Fox sisters began making public appearances in which they would talk to ghosts; along with their older sister, Leah, they eventually developed a traveling psychic show that took them across America and to Europe, leading tens of thousands of Americans to attend seances.
		This comprehensively researched biography of the Fox sisters, founders of modern spiritualism in America, not only provides details of their private lives but also explains the mores of the era in which they lived and how that affected them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060566671?v=glance (2354 words)

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