--How their investigation if further pursued, would have led to the truth, 133.

"CHARLES Ceri"

--The "spirit of Mr. Seybert" mistakes the name of Mr. Sellers, of the "Seybert Commission," 171.

CLAIMS of Spiritualism as set forth in pet.i.tion to Congress, 1854, 151, 152.

COMMITTEES of tools and accomplices, 121.

CONDEMNATION of Spiritualism --The substantial effect of the report of Harvard professors on the tests in Boston, 1857, 149.

CONCERTED signals used in the early seances, 127.

CONSPICUOUS persons interested in the "Fox Sisters," 129.

CONTACT of person while producing the "raps," 90, 138.

CORRUPT practices in secret spiritualistic circles, 50, 64, 237.

COVENTRY (Dr. C. B.), one of the Buffalo investigators, 132.

CROOKVILLE, near Philadelphia--Maggie Fox goes to school there, 226.

DEAD (The) do not return, 37, 238.

DEATH of Dr. Kane, 37.

DERANGEMENT of mental faculties the cause of the prevalence of the spiritualistic delusion, 154.

--Resulting from Spiritualism, 166.

DISGUST (Dr. Kane's) at spiritualistic circles, 225, 229.

--(Mrs. Kane's) at the baser spiritualistic practices, 29, 30.

DISS De Bar (Madam) --Mrs. Kane's abhorrence of her, 29.

--Daniel Underhill p.r.o.nounces her a fraud, 43.

EARLY sorcery the prototype of modern Spiritualism, 150.

EDUCATION (Defective) the cause of the prevalence of the spiritualistic delusion, 154.

ELEVATION --Failure of Mrs. Kane to produce "rappings" when standing upon a lounge, a cushioned chair or a step-ladder, 195.

EXPOSURE, Poetic justice of the, 13.

--Mrs. Kane's first public intimation of intended, 29, 30.

--Details of Mrs. Kane's, 32, 35, 37, 65, 77.

--Of Spiritualism by the Guernillas, 199.

FEAR of the Fox Sisters of their sister, Leah, 232.

FISH (Ann Leah Fox) First to conceive the idea of profiting by the "rappings," 102.

--Learns to "rap" from the little children, 103.

--Using the little girls, Maggie and Katie, for her purposes, 123.

--Challenges to the "Buffalo doctors," 139.

FISH (Lizzie) --Protesting against her mother's hypocrisy and deception, 96, 128.

FLINT (Dr. Austin), one of the Buffalo investigators, 132.

FOOT (Movement of the) in producing "rappings," 38, 103, 143.

--Detected by a member of the "Seybert Commission," 194.

--"Rappings" not heard when held, but heard again when released, 143.

FORGED testimony, 91.

FOX (Catherine) --First to discover that "raps" could be produced with the joints, 90.

FOX (David S.) --First to suggest use of the alphabet in the so-called "spirit messages," 115.

--Dupe or accomplice of Leah, 115.

FOX (John D.) --Never a believer in Spiritualism, 99.

FOX (Mrs. Margaret) --An honest fanatic, deceived by her children, 36, 93.

--Disabused at the last, 236.

FOX (Maggie) --Her beauty at thirteen years, 210.

--Petty devilment in childhood, 83.

--Sent to school at Crookville, Pa., by Dr. Kane, 226.

--Protests all through her earlier life against "spiritualistic"

deception, 234.

FOX (Maria), 82.

FULCRUM, necessary for the limb in order to produce sound by the action of the joints, 142.

FURNESS (Horace Howard), acting chairman of the "Seybert Commission"

--Letter to Mrs. Kane, 169.

--Explanation of her refusal to continue the seances with the Commission, 204.

FRAUD.

--Dante's image of, 17.

--Origin of the, 81.

--Development of the, 105.

--Various forms of the, 201.

FRAUDULENT --The "mediumship" of Mrs. Jencken's baby, "Ferdie," 160.