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• 1 2016-11-23T13:06:28-05:00 Incontrovertible Facts 3 plain 2016-12-16T21:05:34-05:00  Writing under the pseudonym of “A. Medium,” a writer in the comic magazine Fun describes his experiences with spiritualism (1876). After attending an séance the narrator gives up his business and becomes a medium, and afterwards interprets all events according to spiritualist doctrine (for instance, he considers the misfortunes of his friend to be the result of angry spirits rather than due to his friend’s obvious vices). Although highly comic, the piece points out how dangerous spiritualism could be in that its interpretive schema could be misapplied to any event.