Ministry of Apparitions
Malcolm Gaskill: Magical Thinking in 1918, 4 July 2019
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War
by Owen Davies.
Oxford, 284 pp., £20, October 2018,978 0 19 879455 4 Show More
by Owen Davies.
Oxford, 284 pp., £20, October 2018,
“... But the alleged provenance was intriguing. Sullivan invented a psychical researcher called William Doidge, who had, he said, fought with the Scots Guards at the Battle of Mons in August 1914. The angel had been caught on camera much later, in the Cotswolds in 1952. It’s a well-known story that British soldiers at Mons claimed they really did see ... ”