Vanga
The unenrolled members of the Ndembo Secret Society of the Lower Congo.
Varley, Cromwell: A distinguished electrician and fellow of the Royal Society, who on several occasions turned his Vaulderie knowledge of electricity to account in devising tests for spiritualistic mediums. In March, 1874 he applied such a test to Miss Florence Cook, during a materialisation séance. The experiment, in common with many of these earlier tests, has since been proved inadequate. (See Spiritualism.)