Incidents in My Life by Daniel Dunglas Home

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Incidents in My Life is a book by Daniel Dunglas Home, first published in 1863. In this autobiographical account Home, one of the most celebrated and controversial Victorian mediums, recounts the odd and dramatic phenomena he said he experienced from childhood onward: visions, table raps and knocks, séances held for aristocratic and scientific audiences across Europe, and astonishing physical demonstrations such as levitation. Written in a direct, anecdotal style, the work reads as both memoir and catalogue of psychic phenomena, offering readers a first-hand window into 19th-century spiritualism and the period’s fascination with the paranormal. The book has had enduring interest for students of spiritualism, the occult, and Victorian social history: it is often cited in studies of mediumship, séance culture, and debates about evidence and fraud in psychic research. Whether approached as a primary source for historians or as a curious relic of popular Victorian belief, Home’s detailed episodes — from intimate domestic manifestations to séances attended by eminent figures — continue to be read by those researching paranormal phenomena, historical psychical research, and the cultural life of the Victorian era.

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