Medium Elizabeth J Compton
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Elizabeth J Compton Medium
A profile of Elizabeth J. Compton, was a medium working as a washerwoman in New York, she was presented to friends in the Spiritualist circles who found at the age of 45, she was a powerful Physical Medium. She was investigated by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, who founded the Theosophical Society with Madame Helena Blavatsky.
During a seance while she was closed up inside the cabinet, her Spirit Guide
Katie Brink appeared outside the cabinet.
During another seance 'Katie Brink,' the Spirit of the Medium Elizabeth J. Compton, a sitter Richard Cross from Montreal asked if he was allowed to cut a piece of the dress of the Spirit forms dress. The request was allowed by the Spirit but only on the condition that he would buy a new dress for the Medium, for a corresponding hole would appear on the Mediums skirt. The cut piece was fine, gossamer-like material. The Medium's dress was black alpaca, and much coarser. The cut piece fitted the hole in the Medium's dress exactly.
Compton, Elizabeth J. (1829- ?)
A washerwoman of Havanah, New York, and mother of nine
children who in 1875, at age 45, was discovered to be a powerful Medium.
Henry S. Olcott, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, in his
People from the Other World (1875) describes remarkable seances with Compton
that produced surprising discoveries.
Olcott removed the Medium's earrings, passed sewing
thread through the perforation in her ears, and sealed the ends to the back
of her chair. He impressed his private signet on the seals, fastened her
chair to the floor with thread and wax, and left the cabinet, firmly
convinced that the slightest movement of the Medium would be sufficient to
snap the threads.
A young girl who called herself ‘Katie Brink’ soon
stepped out of the cabinet. Her weight varied between 52 and 77 pounds (the
Medium weighed 121); she sat on Olcott's knee, caressed him, and gave him
permission to go into the cabinet while she was outside. Her only condition
was that he should not touch the chair in which the Medium was sitting.
Olcott went in, found the chair, but both the Medium and the fastenings had
disappeared.
After the appearance and departure of another phantom, an
Indian warrior, Olcott went in again. He wrote in his book:
‘I went inside with a lamp and found the medium just as I
left her at the beginning of the seance, with every thread unbroken and
every seal undisturbed. She sat there with her head leaning against the
wall, her flesh as pale as marble, her eyeballs turned up beneath the lids,
her forehead covered with a deathlike dampness, no breath coming from the
lungs, and no pulse at her wrist. When every person had examined the threads
and seals, I cut the flimsy bonds with a pair of scissors and, lifting the
chair by its back and seat, carried the cataleptic woman out into the open
air of the chamber. She lay thus inanimate for eighteen minutes, life
gradually coming back to her body, until respiration and pulse and the
temperature of her skin became normal.’
Given the present perspective on such materialization
occurrences and Olcott's own incompetence as an investigator, in spite of
the presence of 11 other people at the seance, there was every reason to
believe that he had simply been unable to detect the fraud. A skeptical view
would be that Compton relied on confederates, both to impersonate Spirit
Forms and to move her and the chair in and out of the cabinet without
breaking the seals, using a duplicate empty chair to suggest that the Medium
had been transformed.
Observers were somewhat confounded by events during the
seances. It seemed as impossible to duplicate what they saw in a mundane
manner as it was for a Spirit to accomplish the task. The body of the Spirit
seemed to be Compton's. However, a transfiguration involved complete change
of stature and bulk. She was variously elongated, compressed, became thin
and then corpulent, and her impersonation of the departed was so perfect
that the presence of the Spirit was accepted, especially since she had
intimate knowledge of personal circumstances in every such case.
Now and again, in an attempt at exposure, she was seized.
In such cases she seemed to resolve into her original form, and became
Elizabeth Compton again in a second of time. Such seizures, however, were
always followed by her collapse.
Later, Dr. John Ballou Newbrough, a Spiritualist Medium
himself, reported on a seance. He used shoemaker's wax-end in fastening
Compton to the chair and nailed the ends to the wall and her dress to the
floor. The Medium, dress, and nails disappeared during the materialization
of a phantom outside. When she was discovered in her chair again, careful
measurements revealed that the nails were in new places, the knots had been
changed or untied, and the had been seals removed and returned to their
places.
Sources:
Olcott, Henry S. People from the Other World. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing, 1875.
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