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Periodical: Magikon

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Magikon.
Archiv fur Beobachtungen aus dem Gebiete der Geisterkunde und des magnetischen und magischen Lebens nebst andern Zugeben fur Freunde des Innern.
1839-1853 Semiannual
Stuttgart, Germany. Language: German. Publisher: Ebner & Seubert. Editor: Justinus Kerner.
Succeeds: Blätter aus Prevorst
1/1, September 1839-1853. 5 volumes, 4 1/2 x 7.

This continued Kerner's earlier Blätter aus Prevorst, which focused on the "Seeress of Prevorst," Frederika Wanner Hauffe (1801-1829). Magikon in its subtitle promised observations "aus dem Gebiete der Geisterkunde und des magnetischen und magischen Lebens nebst andern Zugeben fur Freunde des Innern." This journal, though open to "spirits" (poltergeists, protective spirits, and the like), is actually better seen as an early "occult" journal, with articles on Hauffe, the interpretation of dreams and meaning of dreams, magical and magnetic healing, the Kabbala, "near death experiences" ("Ekstasie eines Scheintoden alterer Zeit"), etc. Crabtree 429.

Other Sources:NYPL; ZDB: Berlin SBB Haus Potsdamer Str; Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol; and many other locations.
Issues:Magikon V1 1840
Magikon V2 1842
Magikon V3 1846
Magikon V4 1850
Magikon V5 1853
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read across 1840–1853, Magikon (Stuttgart) belongs to the German Romantic tradition of animal magnetism — the Justinus Kerner world where the magnetic somnambule shades into the visionary and the spirit-seer. Its content is the magnetizer and the magnetic sleep, but pitched toward the mystical and otherworldly: the night-side of nature, the entranced sensitive as a window onto unseen realms. A direct ancestor, in the German key, of the Spiritualist séance to come.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | Survival After Death and Immortality