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Curiosities of Victorian Esoterica
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- 1. Mechanical marvel mimicking life, popular in parlors
- 2. Alleged physical emanation during spiritualist séances
- 3. Keepsake often morbidly linked with death reminders
- 4. Term for performance of miracles or magic-like feats
- 7. Ancient term adopted for large Victorian garden cemeteries
- 10. Victorian device for sustained flame using volatile liquid
- 12. Pseudoscience mapping bumps on skull to personality traits
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- 5. Art of judging character from facial features, long-discredited
- 6. Relating to earliest photographic process of exposure on metal
- 8. Forbidden art of communicating with the dead, feared then
- 9. Device offering 3D illusion from twin photographs
- 11. Encrypted Victorian communication or whimsical code mystery
- 13. Charlatanism prevalent in Victorian medical oddities
- 14. Early lantern using oil or limelight, lighting parlors and streets
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