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On the evening of July 8th, 1913, in a home in St. Louis, Missouri, three women were experimenting with an ouija board. As Pearl Curran and a friend moved the stylus aimlessly, the following words spelled themselves out: Many moons ago I lived - again I come - Patience Worth my name. The ghostly message surprised the women, but Patience was not through - the stylus continued seeking letters: Wait, I would speak with thee. If thou shalt live, then so shall I. I make my bread at thy hearth. Good friends, let us be merrie. The time for work is past. Let the Tabby drowse and blink her wisdom to the firelog. Thus began a rather constant flow of communications by Patience Worth through the fingertips of Pearl Curran.
Over the next few years, many of Worth's communications were published in magazines, newspapers, and in the book Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery by Casper S. Yost. She quickly achieved international fame. She dazzled the world community with her banter, poems, aphorisms, witticisms, essays, and books (she spelled out several of them). She was hailed as a genius, a poet equal to Whitman. She performed a number of extemporaneous literary feats of a highly complex and dexterous nature, the likes of which have not been matched by any other. Her deeds were performed under the watchful and skeptical eyes of various professionals (e.g. journalists, doctors, lawyers, philosophers, psychologists, university professors, etc.) most of whom came away astonished and mystified.
The popularity of Patience Worth faded like a shooting star. Within a generation, her books went out of print - they never saw a second printing. Her poems and other writings were relegated to obscurity. Pearl Curran died of pneumonia in 1937 without much money or fanfare. Today, only a handful of individuals know about Patience Worth, and only a fraction of those take the time to become seriously acquainted with her writings. Her communications, which total nearly four million words, sit encoded, bound, and largely undisturbed in the archives at the Missouri Historical Society.
Patience Worth claimed to be the spirit of a seventeenth century Englishwoman who traveled to America only to be killed in an Indian raid. Two of her books, Telka3 and Hope Trueblood,4 reinforce that claim as the author of both is familiar with the language and customs of seventeenth century rural England.5 Patience also referred to herself in more mysterious terms. Once, when questioned about her origin, she gave the following response, I be like the wind who leaveth not track, but ever `bout, and yet like to the rain who groweth grain for thee to reap.
Patience Worth stated that all her puttings (one way she described her communications) were religious in nature. She once said, Do eat that which I offer thee. `Tis o' Him. I but bear the pack apacked for the carry o' me by Him. Patience seemed to espouse a mostly Christian creed. In a statement of her beliefs (i.e. Credo), Patience said, I believe in the all-merciful God, and in His Son as a Sign of His Mercy. I believe in the resurrection of life, for its manifold symbols are before me. Patience identified her...
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