Adelma Vay de Vaya (born Wurmbrandt, Ternopil 20.10.1840) was a countess, author, medium, and leading advocate of spiritualism in Hungary. Life and work She inherited the mystique of having powers from her mother, the Countess Teleki, later duchess Solm. She was reputed to have prophetic gifts and to be clairvoyant. She wrote, spoke and drew in a trance like state. She was famous forhomeopath and worked to cure people using magnetism. In 1873, together with her husband baron Odon Vay de Vaya, she formed the Hungarian Spiritualist Association and they became its first presidents. She died and was buried at Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia in 1925. Her books She was author of many books, written in German and translated: * Spirit, Power, and Matter (1869), Spirit, Power, And Matter * Studies on the Spirit World (1874), * From My Life (1900), * Pictures from the Beyond (1905).
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