spirit-physiognomy

Updated: November 20, 2024

He looked as stolid and unwinking as the genuine spirit-physiognomy itself. The gas was lowered to a 'dim religious light, and then a black coal-scuttle, with features chalked on it, deceived some of the circle into the idea that it was a nigger.

Charles Maurice Davies - Mystic London:: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis