what did charles dickens believe in?
Anglicanism
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 The book " is now regarded more as fiction than fact " , " an imaginative hoax , a fabrication mixed with just enough fact to give it credibility " . 

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 One tale centres on club member Simon Luttrell , Lord Irnham , later Earl of Carhampton , one time Sheriff of Dublin . Luttrell is believed to have been the subject of The Diaboliad , a 1777 poem dedicated to " the worst man in England " . According to the story , Luttrell made a pact with the Devil to give up his soul within seven years in return for settling his debts but , when the Devil came to Mount Pelier lodge to claim his prize , Luttrell distracted the Devil and fled . 

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 The psychical researcher Hereward Carrington and spiritualist Herbert Thurston have claimed the accordion experiment was not the result of deliberate fraud . This is in opposition to magicians and skeptical researchers who evaluated Crookes ' reports from the experiment . 

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 His belief that Eve was created from Adam 's sperm after he ejaculated during the night . 

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 Some of the Turpin legend can be sourced directly to Richard Bayes ' The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin ( 1739 ) , a mixture of fact and fiction hurriedly put together in the wake of the trial , to satisfy a gullible public . The speeches of the condemned , biographies of criminals , and trial literature , were popular genres during the late 17th and early 18th centuries ; written for a mass audience and a precursor to the modern novel , they were " produced on a scale which beggars comparison with any period before or since " . Such literature functioned as news and a " forum in which anxieties about crime , punishment , sin , salvation , the workings of providence and social and moral transgression generally could be expressed and negotiated . " 
