Etta Wriedt
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Etta Wriedt | |
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| Born | Henrietta Knapp 1862 |
| Died | 1942 Detroit, Michigan |
| Spouse | Phillip Wreidt |
Etta Wriedt (1862–1942) was an American direct voice medium.[1]
Wriedt was born in Oswego, New York[2] and was well known in the field of spiritualism, she employed a trumpet in the darkness of the séance room which she claimed spirits would use to make noises and voices. She charged people money to attend her séances, one of her spirit guides was "John Sharp" who claimed he was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in the eighteenth century.[3] She visited England five times and held séances with W. T. Stead.[4] Stead and Vice-Admiral William Usborne Moore author of the book, The Voices (1913) endorsed her mediumship as genuine.[5][6]