Adelma from Vay

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Adelma from Vay

Adelaide von Wurmbrand-Stuppach , also Adelma von Vay or Adelma Vay de Vaya (born October 20, 1840 in Ternopil , Galicia , today Ukraine ; † May 24, 1925 in Gonobitz , Lower Styria, today Slovenia ), was an Austrian writer and spiritualist .

Life

Adelma's father, who k u. k Officer Count Ernst von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, was stationed in Galicia at the time of her birth, but died in 1846. When her mother remarried in 1851, Adelma grew up in the Margraviate of Brandenburg . In 1860 she married the officer Eugen Baron Vay, with whom she then lived on his Tisza-Lök estate in Hungary. A few years later the couple bought an estate in Gonobitz.

Gravestone Adelma von Vays

In 1865 Adelma Vay was treated for pain by a magnetizer . He described her as talented in the media. According to her own statements, she had inherited her powers from her mother, Countess Teleki and later Duchess Solm. From this point on she also began to practice media writing. In her own words: "Write The spirits through me without me doing need to think, flying my arm and the pencil over the paper and I can meanwhile chat." 1870 she released her first major, supposedly written by this route book spirit , Strength, material in which, according to her own statements, St. Lawrence of Rome , St. Mary and Buddha stood by her side. She also published books of fairy tales, such as Tales of the Sun Rays , with Hans Christian Andersen as an influence . Vay also became known for her belief in reincarnation according to Allan Kardec . She believed herself to be the daughter of a 14th-century robber baron who had been burned as a witch. She was a follower of homeopathy and theosophy and claims to have healed people with magnetism .

Through her books, Vay became one of the best known, but also most controversial spiritualists of the late 19th century. Her husband was also active as a medium, and together they played a key role in founding the association spiriter researchers in Budapest in 1871, chaired by Adolf Grünhut.

Fonts

  • Studies on the spirit world . Leipzig: Mutze, 1874.
  • Visions in a glass of water . Budapest: "Association of Spiritual Researchers", 1877
  • Tales of the Eternal Mother . Budapest: Tettey, 1879
  • Listened to the Zephyr: a collection of fairy tales; for the good of a charity . Gonobitz: Self-injury the author, 1885
  • The spheres between the earth and sun by Augustus . Berlin: K. Siegismund, 1890
  • Images from the beyond: median dictations by H. Chr. Andersen and others. Written by Adelma Vay. Vienna: self-published the ed., 1905
  • Spiritual food in times of war: Spirit u. Strengthening of the heart f. our warriors as well as their families . Wiesbaden: Abigt, (1916)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophie Pataky (ed.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, along with biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms. Volume 2: M-Z. Berlin 1898, p. 387.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Kirchner: Spiritism, the folly of our age . Berlin 1883, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Constant Dirckinck-Holmfeld (Freiherr von): Spiritualism and Spiritism. Your worth and purpose . Leipzig 1880, p. 60. Eileen Barker, Margit Warburg: New religions and new religiosity . Aarhus 1998, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Vay, Adelma from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wurmbrand-Stuppach, Adelaide from; Vay, Adelma von; Vay de Vaya, Adelma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and spiritualist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Ternopil , Galicia , today Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1925
Place of death Gonobitz , Lower Styria, today Slovenia