Eusapia palladino biography channels

The public name of Signora Raphael Delgaiz, the first physical medium who stood in the crossfire of collective scientific investigation for more than twenty years all over Europe and in America. It was largely due to her career that physical phenomena was given center stage by psychical research and the psychological complex of fraud was, in the early twentieth century, introduced to an array of brilliant minds.

Palladino was born in Minervo-Murge, Italy, on January 21, 1854.

Her birth cost her mother's life; her father was assassinated by brigands in 1866. As a little girl she heard raps on the furniture against which she was leaning; she saw eyes glaring at her in the darkness and was frequently frightened in the night when invisible hands stripped off her bedclothes.

When she became orphaned, a family of the upper bourgeoisie received her in Naples as a nursemaid.

They soon detected that she was not an ordinary girl, but her real discove