Mme. d'Esperance

d'Esperance (born Elizabeth Jane Puttock,[1] 20 November 1848 – 20 July 1919) was an English spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud.

She spent a rather lonely childhood full of alleged psychic visions, her mother’s verbal and physical abuse, and harassment by doctors.

Elizabeth discovered spiritualism in the early 1870s in the form of mediumistic powers including automatic writing, ectoplasm, premonitions and table-turning.

Under that name, she began travelling through Europe, giving séances in Denmark, France, Norway, Belgium, Sweden and Germany.

"[5] In a séance in Helsinki, Finland, 11 December 1893 Elizabeth claimed to have dematerialized the lower part of her body whilst only her head and stomach remained.

The medium would, therefore, be in a kneeling position behind the chair, with the upper part of her body in front of the chair-back, and, of course, visible to the investigators who made the examination.