Word: pindamonhangaba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town of Pindamonhangaba (70% of whose 7,000 people are spiritualists) some 40 witnesses sweltered in a pitch-dark seance chamber. Among them were policemen, newsmen and three physicians, who had taken impressive precautions against trickery...
There were outbursts from pulpit and press. Monsenhor João Azevedo, priest of the straying sheep of Pindamonhangaba, denounced the spiritualists as cheats and frauds, offering to prove that one of the witness doctors, under cover of music and darkness, had removed the appendix himself. But the spiritualists prepared to welcome hordes of new converts. Their Pindamonhangaba center was deluged with requests for the painless professional services of ghostly Dr. Amaral...
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