An occultist’s travels
Willy Reichel

We can get an idea about turn of the century spiritualism from this remarkable book by Willy Reichel, a German professor of ‘mesmerism’ with considerable healing powers. An occultist’s travels describes, quite simply, Reichel’s travels from New York to Japan in the early years of the present century, and the things he saw and heard. America was, at that time, apparently bursting with gifted mediums and fortune tellers, and Reichel’s account leads one to believe that many of them were genuine.