Fraudulent and genuine, being a brief account of the most important historical phenomena; a criticism of their evidential value, and a complete exposition of the methods employed in fraudulently reproducing the same. The chief object of this book is to expose in the full the methods that are used in fraudulently reproducing genuine phenomena, if genuine phenomena truly exist. It is not meant to be an attack upon spiritualism or the spiritistic creed. Contains more than 10 illustrations.