O espiritismo no Brasil: as cartas psicografadas de Francisco Cândido Xavier como provas penais

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis presents psychography as a source of criminal evidence, a bibliographic research was carried out and a visit to the Spiritist Federation of the State of Goiás where I had access to rare documents. This paper analyzes two cases that occurred in the State of Goiás, the first case involved the incident between two friends who accidentally opened fire while handling weapons in a game called Russian roulette, one died, the other was accused of his death. The second one is about two colleagues were playing before going to school, in a joke of bad taste, one of them accidentally shot and killed his friend, he was charged with the crim. The two cases had the letters psychographed by the medium Francisco Cândido Xavier, the spirits cleared the defendants in both cases. There are still many aspects that need to be raised in this subject, but the main content of the theme is proposed, the main objective is to explain this type of criminal evidence that is still controversial and unknown.