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SOURCES:

Wikipedia – History of Spiritism in Brazil

Wisdom Library

Encyclopedia.com – “Kardecism”

Britannica – “Spiritism”

Academic dissertations archived at Brazilian university repositories

Publications in Portuguese such as Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Religião

Investigative journalism archives (e.g., Folha de S.Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo from the 1970s–1990s)

Wikipedia – Lead Masks Case

Substack

arXiv

The Skeptic

YouTube

Quest Journals

Portuguese academic studies and dissertations (e.g., on “religião Nova Era no Brasil”)

Fieldwork published in journals like Nova Religão or Horizonte, and Egyptological-inspired sect surveys.

Spirit Tech Blueprints / Channeled Designs

Often appear in esoteric magazines and newsletters from Brazilian UFO/new age circles in the ’70s–’90s

OAPEN Library

Spiritizmas Lietuvoje

Skeptoid Podcast #398 – The Lead Masks Mystery

WordPress – “The Lead Masks Case” by pmig96

Medium – Curiosity Chronicles & The Salty Order

Reddit r/Weird – discussion on Lead Masks

RationalWiki – analysis of Lead Masks case

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