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Georg Schröpfer (1730–74), an ex-waiter, ex-Hussar and practising Freemason, opened his coffee-house around 1761 in the Klostergasse, Leipzig. Yet the business was not profitable and in order to make ends meet, Schröpfer branched out into providing a séance involving the summoning of ghosts. These sessions actually involved projections from a hidden lantern.
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Jones, D.J. (2014). Sex and the Ghost Show: The Early Ghost Lanternists. In: Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern. The Palgrave Gothic Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137298928_2
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