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  1. Katie King, Florence Cook and Sir William Crookes. Florence Eliza Cook (ca 1856 – 22 April 1904) was a medium who claimed to materialise a spirit, "Katie King". The question of whether the spirit was real or a fraud was a notable public controversy of the mid-1870s.

  2. THE MEDIUM AND THE SCIENTIST. SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, FLORENCE COOK AND THE ENIGMATIC GHOST, KATIE KING. Florence Cook. During the heyday of Spiritualism, Florence Cook became one of the movement’s most famous mediums. She was noted for her ability to produce full-form spirit materializations, especially those of her spirit guide, Katie King.

  3. Cook, Florence Eliza (1856-1904) The famous British materialization medium whom physicist and chemist Sir William Crookes investigated. The popular story of her mediumship opens in 1871. She claimed to have seen spirits and heard voices in her childhood, but this was attributed to vivid imagination.

  4. The true tale of the respected Victorian scientist Sir William Crookes and his spirit-medium protégée Florence Cook.

  5. Florence Cook (ca 1856 – 1904) was a teenage girl who started to claim mediumistic abilities in 1870 and in 1871-2 she developed her abilities under the established mediums Frank Herne and Charles Williams. Herne was associated with the spirit "John King", and Florence became associated with "Katie King", stated to be John King's daughter.

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  7. Feb 16, 2024 · 1873. A medium named Florence Cook became famous for “materialization” séances. With the medium supposedly unconscious in a closed cabinet, a willowy female figure claiming to be the long-dead spirit Katie King walked through the séance room, beguiling such observers as the scientist William Crookes, who discovered the element thallium.

  8. The lively and charming spirit form was named Katie King, and she materialized through the mediumship of a teenager named Florence Cook. When she was 15, Cook began sitting in seances with her mother in their home in Manchester, England, and she soon found that she was capable of producing writing she claimed was dictated by spirits from the ...

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