Kristof Smeyers
@kristofsmeyers
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
'Performing magnetism' is still on tour, we (the green man and I) have arrived in Liverpool for @bavs-uk.bsky.social
Hello and goodbye #SSHM2026 from spiritual healing! We were (1) US spiritualists and antenatal thought (@nienkegroskamp.bsky.social), (2) René Allendy's esoteric medicine (kitt price) and (3) Belgian lay exorcists (you guessed it)
frankly, buddy, I don't know if the whole world needs to read my article
'Het gestolde land' is 10 jaar oud en als ik erdoor blader heb ik eerlijk gezegd geen flauw idee hoe ik dat boek heb kunnen schrijven
Mocht het wolvendebat wat afkoeling vermogen of willen we dit soort nonsens niet meer lezen: mijn boek over de geschiedenis van wolf-mensrelaties is nog steeds overal te koop, en ik kom nog steeds graag in uw zaal/living/tuin zagen over wolven
Nothing to see here just PERFORMING MAGNETISM advertised in the New York Review of Books
this does look like they're being warned before going deeper into the forest
Like this one from 1856, of a wife magnetising her husband, subverting usual gendered depictions of magnetism (Private collection)
Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social Read it here: openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0... Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
It's Good Friday which seems as good a day as any to remind you that I wrote a book about stigmata and am still, *still* happy to come talk to you about it
Het ligt ongetwijfeld aan mijn gefrituurde vrijdagnamiddaghersenen maar deze kop had toch minder verwarrend gekund?