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While Positivism was founding the social sciences (proclaiming the death of theology) and Marxism was instigating the proletariat to leave institutio… - Cecilia Gatto Trocchi
" "While Positivism was founding the social sciences (proclaiming the death of theology) and Marxism was instigating the proletariat to leave institutional religion branded as the ‘opium of the people’, thousands and thousands of people were attempting to communicate with the spiritual worlds through mediums and seers.
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Cecilia Gatto Trocchi (19 June 1939 – 11 July 2005) was an Italian Roman Catholic anthropologist.
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Eusapia Palladino's popularity went into crisis in Cambridge, where during a séance the medium was caught moving an object with her hand that should have levitated by occult force. Accused of fraud, she defended herself by declaring that she had only acted because she was driven by an unconscious and irresistible impulse.
C. G. Trocchi, Le sette in Italia, III. Le sette di matrice cristiana, p. 50.
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Positivist historiography defined the belief in witches as a mass psychosis that happened to mix Christian ideas and relics of ancient paganism. The premises rested on the one hand on fear-laden ideas about the Devil, who really existed for Christian culture, and on the other on fantasies such as the magical capacity for malefiction, the possibility of harm with the help of demons, flying, animal metamorphoses and sexual intercourse with demons in the famous Sabbath.
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