Case file · High strangeness
The Seeress of Prevorst
From 1826, doctor-poet Justinus Kerner treated Friederike Hauffe of Prevorst, who fell into trances, saw spirits and spoke a 'language of the soul'.
1826 CE · 49.04, 9.43 · status: disputed
The account
Kerner's 1829 book 'Die Seherin von Prevorst' became a classic of early psychical literature.
The sceptical view
Modern readers see an ill young woman, probably with tuberculosis and dissociative symptoms, shaped by her doctor's beliefs.