Read Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist Online
Authors: Robert Damon Schneck
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
(Birmingham and Eisenberg),
199
â200
Innis, Roy,
240
Invited, The
(movie directed by McKinney),
11
It
(King),
243
Jackson, Josiah,
37
,
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,
42
,
57
Jeane Dixon Museum and Library,
205
â7,
222
Jewett, Pliny A.,
49
,
59
â60,
63
Johnson, Curtis,
3
Johnson, William Henry,
92
Judgment Day prediction,
14
Kennedy, John F., assassination,
211
â13
Ketchum, “Black Jack,”
134
King, Stephen,
243
Kluski, Franek,
183
Knee Benders,
267
Knight, Jonathan,
59
Koetpnickger, Mr. (failed suicide victim),
149
,
150
Kokoraleis, Andrew and Thomas,
247
â49
Koreshans,
15
Ku Klux Klan,
232
â36,
238
,
239
,
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â44,
245
Lahr House hotel (Lafayette, Indiana),
133
â34,
137
â40,
142
,
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,
153
Lance, Mr. (hotel guest),
139
Lane, Caroline,
28
Lane, Ephraim,
29
,
42
â43,
58
,
60
Lapseritis, Jack “Kewaunee,”
196
â97
Latimer, R. H.,
7
Latter-day Saints movement,
15
,
42
Lefever, Gabe,
161
legend tripping,
66
Leken, Matthew,
130
Liebenstein, Johann Georg,
120
Life of Saint Francis
(Saint Bonaventure),
70
Lifschutz, Joseph E.,
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â77,
78
â81
Little, Arthur D.,
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â10
Livingston, Adam,
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â21,
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â27,
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â31
Livingston, Mrs.,
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â26,
128
â29
Livingston Wizard (Wizard Clip)
phenomena attributed to,
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121
â22,
129
â30
recent claims of activity by,
131
Unknown Stranger and other possible identities,
126
â28
Lombroso, Cesare,
53
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
30
Long Island Devil,
266
Louis XI,
262
Lowe, George D.,
96
MacKinnon, A. W.,
6
magical treasure hunting
Ape Canyon story as,
185
â86,
191
â95,
202
â3
dowsing,
187
as evidence of insanity,
190
â91
occult methods and necromancy,
186
â88,
192
â93
popularity of,
165
â66,
186
â87
protection from hostile spirits,
193
treasure guardians,
188
â90,
194
â99,
201
Magnalia Christi Americana
(Mather),
30
Manson Family cult,
64
Manson Women, The
(documentary by Deutsch),
64
Maria de la Visitacion,
77
Maricoxi tribe,
89
Martinites,
64
â65
Mather, Cotton,
30
Matthews, Justus Washington,
25
,
35
â41
Matthews, Mehitable (formerly Sanford),
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36
Matthews, Willard,
40
McKinney, Ryan,
11
McSherry, Anastasia,
121
McSherry, Richard,
123
McSherry, William,
126
Medders, Charles J.,
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,
111
â12
medical experimentation on blacks,
110
,
233
â36,
240
â42,
245
mediumship,
162
Men of Sin (Antichrists)
Hunt, Amos,
31
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â35,
54
â56,
62
â64
Matthews, Justus Washington,
25
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35
â41
murder of,
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39
â43,
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57
â61,
65
mental mediums,
162
Messiah craze,
14
metaphysical concept of cosmos,
181
â82
Miller, William/Millerites,
14
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42
Modrzejewski, Teofil,
183
monster-hunting expedition, Teddy Roosevelt's,
256
Montgomery, Ruth,
216
Moon, Arthur,
146
Moon, James
autodecapitation apparatus,
141
â44,
146
â48,
151
celebrity,
150
â54
coroner's investigation of suicide,
145
deliberate self-decapitation,
136
â39
family history of suicide,
150
interest in inventors of death machines,
145
,
150
â51
unsuccessful suicide attempts,
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,
144
murder vans,
239
â40
Murk, Justus,
172
â73
Mysterious America
(Coleman),
227
mystical piercing,
23
â24
Negro a Beast, The
(Carroll),
94
Neumann, Therese,
77
â78
Newark, disappearance of blacks in,
244
â45
night doctors,
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,
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â36,
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â42,
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,
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Nixon, Richard M.,
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â21
Nye, Edgar W. “Bill,”
153
O'Day, Captain (policeman),
8
Okefenokee Wild Man,
87
â88,
112
â17
Okolowicz, Norbert,
183
Ostman, Albert,
195
Ouija boards
communication with dead,
3
,
4
â7
denunciation of, and attempts to ban,
9
â10
as drug and disease,
9
â10
ills attributed to,
3
â4,
8
â9,
12
movie based upon,
11
popular preoccupation with,
3
,
8
â9
Paulos, John Allen,
218
Perry, Michael,
180
Peterson, John,
161
phantom clowns.
See
clowns-in-vans
physical mediums,
162
Piltdown Man hoax,
116
Pio of Pietrelcina, Saint,
70
Pocasset Horror murder,
64
poltergeists.
See
Livingston Wizard (Wizard Clip); spirits
racism, scientific,
94
â95,
104
Reed, Kasim,
239
Regan, Donald,
215
Ripper Crew (Chicago Rippers),
247
â49
Robertson, Cloretta
auditory hallucinations,
76
â77
calmness and detachment concerning bleeding,
72
,
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characteristics of stigmata appearances,
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â72
fictionalized story about,
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â85
Jet
magazine article about,
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â74
medical observations of,
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â77,
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â81
normal childhood and family life,
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â76,
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religious devotion,
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â68,
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revival meetings,
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â84
seasonal recurrence of bleeding,
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83
â84
Roe, William,
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Roosevelt, Elliot,
210
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
210
Roosevelt, Teddy,
256
Rountree, Martha,
215
â16
Ryan, Walter,
105
Samson, Philip,
47
Sanderson, Ivan,
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â78,
195
Sanford, Charles,
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45
â53
Sanford, Mehitable (later Matthews),
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36
Sasquatch.
See
Bigfoot/Sasquatch
Schneck, Robert Damon,
265
â68
Schweinfurth, George Jacob,
15
Second Great Awakening,
13
â17
Selahtiks,
173
â74
Sharkey, William R.,
10
Sheets, Mrs. Fred,
135
Sheldon, Joseph, Jr.,
57
Silliman, Benjamin,
33
Sisson, Thomas Upton,
114
Sly, Samuel “Sammy”
death,
62
exorcism and murder of Matthews,
37
â40,
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â42,
57
â61
on Hunt poisoning incident and financial settlement,
32
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34
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55
â56
on sects sympathetic to Wakemanites,
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shared housing with Wakeman,
29
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31
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35
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on Ira Wakeman's death,
24
worship and practice of Wakemanism,
25
â27,
30
â31,
55
Smith, Jerome C.,
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â60
Smith, Joseph, Jr.,
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,
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â88,
190
Smith, Marion Lefever “Hank,”
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,
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â64,
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170
â71,
193
Snow (preacher),
14
Soldavini, Josephine,
2
â3,
7
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11
Sperry, Enoch,
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,
44
â46,
48
â49,
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Sperry, Nehemiah,
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spirits
materializations,
183
â84
in metaphysical concept of cosmos,
181
â82
treasure guardians,
188
â90,
194
â97,
201
treasure-hunting guides,
156
,
162
â65,
193
Spiritualism
basic tenet,
160
emergence and practical application of,
160
â61
mediumship,
162
obsolescence of necromancy practices,
192
â93
practice by Ape Canyon prospectors,
156
,
162
â65,
193
séance materializations,
183
â84
Spreitzer, Edward,
247
â49
Springheeled Jack figures,
251
,
266
St. Louis World's Fair (1904),
102
â4
Stannard, Mary,
62
Starks, Cloretta.
See
Robertson, Cloretta
stigmata
of Catherine of Siena,
69
forms of,
69
of Francis of Assisi,
69
â70
fraudulent and questionable cases,
77
â78
mental and emotional factors,
75
,
80
in non-Catholics,
70
number of Roman Catholic stigmatics,
70
nurse's observation of,
68
papal guidelines on,
71
of Pio of Pietrelcina,
70
Stillman, T.,
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