Eva Hatch,
Medium Eva Hatch
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Eva Hatch Medium
There is NO Death by Florence Marryat
CHAPTER XXIII - Mrs. Eva Hatch
I was so disappointed at being hurried off to Boston before I had seen any more of the New York media, that I took the earliest opportunity of attending a seance there. A few words I had heard dropped about Eva Hatch made me resolve to visit her first. She was one of the Shaker sect, and I heard her spoken of as a remarkably pure and honest woman, and most reliable medium. Her first appearance quite gave me that impression. She had a fair, placid countenance, full of sweetness and serenity, and a plump matronly figure. I went incognita, as I had done to Mrs. Williams, and mingled unnoticed with the crowd. Mrs. Hatch's cabinet was quite different from Mrs. Williams'. It was built of planks like a little cottage, and the roof was pierced with numerous round holes for ventilation, like a pepper-box. There was a door in the centre with a window on either side, all three of which were shaded by dark curtains. The windows, I was told, were for the accommodation of those spirits who had not the power to materialize more than a face, or head and bust. Mrs. Hatch's conductor was a woman, who sat near the cabinet, as in the other case.
Mrs. Eva Hatch had not entered the cabinet five minutes before she came out again, under trance, with a very old lady with silver hair clinging to her arm, and walked round the circle. As they did so, the old lady extended her withered hand, and blessed the sitters. She came quite close to each one and was distinctly visible to all. I was told that this was the spirit of Mrs. Hatch's mother, and that it was her regular custom to come first and give her blessing to the seance. I had never seen the spirit of an aged person before, and it was a
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There were a great many sitters present, most of whom were old patrons of Mrs. Hatch, and so, naturally, their friends came for them first. It is surprising though, when once familiarized with materialization, how little one grows to care to see the spirits who come for one's next-door neighbour. They are like a lot of prisoners let out, one by one, to see their friends and relations. The few moments they have to spare are entirely devoted to home matters of no possible interest to the bystander. The first wonder and possible shock at seeing the supposed dead return in their old likeness to greet those they left on earth over, one listens with languid indifference, and perhaps a little impatience for one's own turn to come, to the whispered utterances of strangers. Mrs. Hatch's cabinet spirits or controls, however, were very interesting. One, who called herself the Spirit of Prayer, came and knelt down in the middle of the circle, and prayed with us. She had asked for the gas to be extinguished first, and as she prayed she became illuminated with flashes of light, in the shape of stars and crosses, until she was visible from head to foot, and we could see her features and dress as if she had been surrounded by electricity.
Two more cabinet spirits were a negro and negress, who appeared together, chanting some of their native hymns and melodies. When I saw these apparitions, I thought to myself, Here is a good opportunity to discover trickery, if trickery there is. The pair were undoubtedly of the negro race. There was no mistaking their thick lips and noses and yellowwhite eyes, nor their polished brown skins, which no charcoal can properly imitate. They were negroes without doubt; but
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Many other forms appeared and were recognized by the circle, notably a very handsome one who called herself 'the Empress Josephine'; but as they could not add a grain's weight to my testimony I pass them over. I had begun to think that Florence was not going to visit me that evening, when the conductor of the seance asked if there was anybody in the room who answered to the name of Bluebell. I must indulge in a little retrospect here, and tell my readers that ten years previous to the time I am writing of, I had lost my brother-in-law, Edward Church, under very painful circumstances. He had been left an orphan and in control of his fortune at a very early age, and had lived with my husband, Colonel RossChurch, and myself but poor Ted had been his own worst enemy. He had possessed a most generous heart and affectionate disposition, but these had led him into extravagances that swallowed up his fortune, and then he had taken to drinking and killed himself by it. I and my children had loved him dearly, but all our prayers and entreaties had had no avail, and in the end he had become so bad that the doctors had insisted upon our separation. Poor Ted had consequently died in exile, and this had been a further aggravation of our grief
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Is there anyone here who recognizes the name of 'Bluebell'? repeated the conductor. I was once called so by a friend, I said. Someone is asking for that name. You had better come up to the cabinet, she replied. I rose at once and did as she told me, but when I reached the curtain I encountered Florence. My darling child, I said, as I embraced her, why did you ask for 'Bluebell'? She did not answer me, except by shaking her head, placing her finger on her lips, and pointing downwards to the carpet. I did not know what to make of it. I had never known her unable to articulate before. What is the matter, dear? I said; can't you speak to me tonight Still she shook her head, and tapped my arm with her hand, to attract my attention to the fact that she was pointing vigorously downwards. I looked down, too, when, to my astonishment, I saw rise through the carpet what looked to me like the bald head of a baby or an old man, and a little figure, not more than three feet in height, with Edward Church's features, but no hair on its head, came gradually into view, and looked up in my face with a pitiful, deprecating expression, as if he were afraid I should strike him. The face, however, was so unmistakably Ted's, though the figure was so ludicrously insignificant, that I could not fail to recognize him. Why, Ted! I exclaimed, have you come back to see me at last'' and held out my hand. The little figure seized it, tried to convey it to his lips, burst into tears, and sank down through the carpet much more rapidly than he had come up.
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Eva-Ethel, he gasped out, naming my two elder children. At this juncture he seemed suddenly to fail, and became so weak that Florence took him back into the cabinet again.
No more spirits came for me that evening, but towards the close of the seance Florence and Ted appeared again together and embraced me fondly. Florence said, He's so happy now, Mother; he says he shall rest in peace now that he knows that you have forgiven him. And he won't come without his hair again, she added, laughing. I hope he won't, I answered for he frightened me. And then they both kissed me good night, and retreated to the cabinet, and I looked after them longingly and wished I could go there too.
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