Mary Marshall

Mary Ann Marshall (1880-1963), also known as Mary M, was a Canadian medium. She is most notable for a photo depicting tissue coming out her nose with a picture of Arthur Conan Doyle's face in it which she claimed was his spirit.[1]

Putting the psycho in
Parapsychology
Men who stare at goats
By the powers of tinfoil
v - t - e
Marshall with fake ectoplasm.

Biography

Little is known about Marshall; she was of Scottish and Irish parentage but later moved to Winnipeg, Canada after World War I where she joined the Hamilton mediumship group. Some websites seem to have confused this Mary Marshall with another British medium with the same name who lived between 1842-1884.[2]

Photos

Photographs taken at the séances with Marshall were taken from 1928-1933 by the surgeon, and parapsychologist Dr. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton (1873-1935).[3] As a spiritualist, Hamilton believed that the photos were genuine evidence for spirits.[4] However the photographs reveal that the ectoplasm of Marshall in her seances were made of cloth, tissue, and magazine cut outs of people.[5]

gollark: I also like how Macron has an AST with exactly 49 hardcoded operators instead of the superior Haskell way.
gollark: I like how you say this as if any of the code exists whatsoever.
gollark: Well, it's beeoidal to unoptimize stuff and just hope it'll be optimized again later.
gollark: I think you would just have to AND the result afterward. It would not be very efficient.
gollark: Idea: if I get Minoteaur into the Macron spec somehow, Lyricly will be forced to either make it or eternally not make Macron.

References
  1. The Mediumship of Mary Marshall
  2. Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology: Mary Marshall
  3. Psychic Research in a Winnipeg Family: Reminiscences of Dr. Glen F. Hamilton
  4. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton (1873-1935)
  5. Touching the Dead: Spooky Winnipeg by Tom Jokinen
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