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[sc:wptop]Hello, SleepyHeads! This week on Witness Prophecies, we discuss Sleepy Hollow Season 3 Episode 15, entitled “Incommunicado” which originally aired on March 18, 2016. Communication was difficult for our Witnesses and their friends as well as between Pandora and her husband, The Hidden One.
Our team has been working on their communication skills with each other during the past several weeks, and we saw the continuation of that during this episode. Ichabod Crane managed to communicate to Abbie Mills while she was in the catacombs through his astral projection, and when Pandora severed his tie, Abbie led him back to the current world and time. 
Crane particularly realized the bond between the two of them, and has been working to strengthen their bond since that period. Abbie had recently told Crane (as well as her sister, Jenny) about the powerful emblem that was important to her survival in the catacombs. Crane had discovered that this powerful emblem, when paired with his ancestral tablet, enabled him to link his spirit to Abbie regardless of her physical location, as we learned while she was fighting the Verslinder. Their communication, whether physical, mental or spiritual, had strengthened dramatically. So when Crane was trapped with the Hidden One and was unable to talk to Abbie either in person or via mobile phone, he instinctively knew that she would be working to save him and that she would work with Pandora, if necessary, to get him out. They have an unbreakable bond.
In the same way, Jenny Mills and Joe Corbin have been improving the communication in their relationship, especially since the new trailer fiasco! When Jenny finally told Joe that she loved him, taming the wild Wendigo beast, they reached a new understanding together – they truly care for each other and want to grow their relationship.
Too bad that Pandora and The Hidden One haven’t learned how to communicate with each other. I guess that 4000 years apart didn’t help matters. The Hidden One continues to insult her intelligence, and we learn that Pandora has been keeping secrets from him, even as she works with Abbie to free her husband. Their lack of communication with each other may ultimately result in the downfall of each of them.
Fortunately, we didn’t hear too much of this week’s monster, the Banshee (Corey Castellano’s latest creation), as she screeched and wailed her way through the first half of the episode. That’s one method of communication we are better off without!
Our Witnesses lost their new communication devices, the tablet and the Emblem of Thura, which had been used to keep The Hidden One imprisoned for so many millennia. However, with their strong spiritual bonding, this team is prepared for the next challenge that meets them, preventing The Hidden One from destroying the world!
When Abbie and Sophie Foster were reviewing the musicians’ rehearsal video in this week’s episode, they noticed a bow in the wall, and Abbie mentioned reports in the 1920’s about seances where wood, metal and glass would buckle, and Sophie mentioned the “Hyde Sisters.” Well, there weren’t any Hyde Sisters during that period that we could find in history, but we did find the “Fox Sisters,” from Hydesville, New York, who were prominent in expanding the Modern Spiritualism movement beginning in the late 1840’s, and this is our History Lesson this week! Communication via spirits!
History Lesson of the Week – The Fox Sisters of Hydesville, New York, and their Impact on the Modern Spiritualism Movement
Late in March, 1848, three sisters ranging in age from 9 – 14 years of age, told a neighbor that they had heard strange raps on the walls and furniture of their home. Leah, Maggie, and Kate Fox convinced their neighbors, their parents, and many others that they were communicating with spirits. Their home had a reputation of being haunted, but there had never been any “communication with the hereafter” until the girls began demonstrating to others that spirits were reaching out to them with taps and raps. By 1849, the sisters had become a bit of a sensation, demonstrating their abilities at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. As Rochester was a hotbed for reform and religious activity, several community leaders were intrigued by their story, giving the girls more publicity.
They became famous and began giving public seances in 1850, which attracted many notable people including James Fenimore cooper, Horace Greeley, and William Lloyd Garrison.
Their claimed “abilities” attracted imitators, and in the following years, many people claimed to be able to communicate with the spirits of the departed. In 1857, the sisters attempted to win $500 offered by the Boston Courier newspaper to any medium who could demonstrated proven paranormal abilities, but they failed the test.
The middle sister, Maggie, denounced Spiritualism in 1888, and denounced their work as a “horrible deception,” although she recanted her confession one year later. Their deception however, played a huge role in promoting Spiritualism, and the Fox sisters are widely cited in parapsychology and spiritualist literature.
Link to Smithsonian Magazine Article about The Fox Sisters
Link to Wikipedia article about The Fox Sisters
March 18, 2016 – Season 3 Episode 16 – “Dawn’s Early Light”
And SleepyHeads – don’t forget about the book, Sleepy Hollow – Creating Heroes, Demons & Monsters, by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry. You can order it on Amazon, by using the Golden Spiral Media link.
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