Marrow of Alchemy
(See Philalethes.) Marshall, Mrs.: An English medium who gave open séances from 1858 onwards. Unlike many of the early mediums she practised professionally, and was for some time the only professional medium of note in this country. The phenomena witnessed included communication by means of rapping, playing on musical instruments, touchings by invisible hands, and all the more familiar forms. A writer in All the Year Round, July 28th, 1860, characterised Mrs. Marshall's performance as a "dull and barefaced imposition," but Robert Bell, the celebrated dramatist, writing in the Cornhill Magazine was satisfied that the phenomena were genuine spirit manifestations. (See Spiritualism.) Marsi, The: According to Pliny, these people were from the earliest times skilled in magical practices and sorceries. They were able to charm poisonous serpents by means of songs.
Marthese, J. N. T.: (See Holland.)