Brittain, Annie (ca. 1930)
Brittain, Annie (ca. 1930)
British trance medium well known during the 1920s. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sent many people to her anonymously and kept records of the reports, which showed a very high average of success. Her psychic gifts were noticed in early childhood, when she is said to have played with spirit children and occasionally fallen into trance.
Sources:
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The History of Spiritualism. New York: Charles H. Doran, 1926. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975.
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