Mediumship, a profession that gained momentum in the 19th and early twentieth century, developed out of a spiritual movement that began with the Fox Sisters in an old house in Hydesville, New York. There in 1848, Magaretta, fifteen years old, and Katie Fox, only eleven years old, began to communicate with an entity who made his presence known through strange rapping noises. This spirit claimed to be a peddler who had been murdered in their house some years before. Whether their efforts were true Mediumship would be very much questioned. But the impact they made on the spread of Mediumship is incontestable. The Fox Sisters gave birth to the Spiritualist Movement, which became the cradle of Mediumship.

Strangely, this type of manifestation began to rapidly spread throughout the world even though ultimately Margaretta Fox confessed fraud, claiming her sister produced the sounds by