ia-espirita/livro-dos-mediuns

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language:
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pretty_name: "O Livro dos Médiuns — Allan Kardec (370+ Structured Items · 4 Languages)"
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---

# 📖 O Livro dos Médiuns — Allan Kardec

**The Mediums' Book** | **Le Livre des Médiums** | **El Libro de los Médiums**

The complete **370+ numbered items** from Allan Kardec's technical manual on mediumship, structured as machine-readable JSON with full chapter metadata and Q&A separation, in **4 languages**.

## Files

| File | Language | Records |
|---|---|---|
| `livro_dos_mediuns.json` | Portuguese (BR) | 663 |
| `the_mediums_book.json` | English | 348 |
| `el_libro_de_los_mediums.json` | Spanish | 350 |
| `le_livre_des_mediums.json` | French | 349 |

> The PT edition has more records because it uses sub-question notation ("1a", "1b"...) to split items into multiple records — a convention not present in EN/ES/FR editions. All editions cover the same ~350 main items.

## About the Work

Published on **January 15, 1861** in Paris, *Le Livre des Médiums* is the second book of the Spiritist Codification. It serves as the practical and theoretical guide to mediumistic phenomena — covering spirit communication, types of mediums, evocation of spirits, and the moral conditions that influence mediumistic practice.

Allan Kardec (Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, 1804–1869) structured the work in two parts:

- **Part I** — Preliminary Notions (existence of spirits, the marvelous vs. the supernatural, methodology, theoretical systems)
- **Part II** — Spirit Manifestations (physical and intelligent manifestations, typtology, psychography, types of mediums, moral influence, obsession, identity of spirits, evocations, contradictions, charlatanism, and guidelines for spiritist groups)

## Dataset Structure

Unlike *O Livro dos Espíritos* (pure Q&A), *O Livro dos Médiuns* contains both **expository text** by Kardec and **questions asked to Spirits**. Each record is classified by type.

All files share the same 9-field schema. Field names are in English; content is in each file's native language.

```json
{
"Id": "95",
"QuestionNumber": 1,
"Type": "pergunta_espiritos",
"Part": "Segunda Parte",
"Chapter": "V",
"ChapterTitle": "Das manifestações físicas espontâneas",
"Question": "Evocação.",
"Answer": "Que tinhas de me chamar? Queres umas pedradas?...",
"Text": "Evocação. Que tinhas de me chamar? Queres umas pedradas?..."
}
```

```json
{
"Id": "95",
"QuestionNumber": 0,
"Type": "pergunta_espiritos",
"Part": "Second Part",
"Chapter": "V",
"ChapterTitle": "Spontaneous Physical Manifestations",
"Question": "Conversation with the troublesome Noyers Street spirit: 1) [Evocation]",
"Answer": "Why did you call me? Do you want me to throw some stones at you?...",
"Text": "Conversation with the troublesome Noyers Street spirit..."
}
```

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `Id` | Main item number (1–370+) |
| `QuestionNumber` | 0 for expository items; 1, 2, 3… for each Q&A sub-question within the item |
| `Type` | `"expositivo"` (Kardec's own text) or `"pergunta_espiritos"` (question asked to Spirits) |
| `Part` | Part of the book (in the language of the file) |
| `Chapter` | Roman numeral of the chapter within its part |
| `ChapterTitle` | Chapter title (in the language of the file) |
| `Question` | Question asked to the Spirit — empty for expository items |
| `Answer` | Spirit's answer — empty for expository items |
| `Text` | Full content of the record (Question + Answer for Q&A; Kardec's exposition otherwise) |

## Use Cases

- **RAG systems** — structured retrieval of Kardec's technical doctrine on mediumship for AI assistants
- **Fine-tuning** — expository + Q&A pairs for training models on Spiritist doctrine
- **Research** — machine-readable access to the complete Mediums' Book with chapter-level metadata
- **Education** — building study tools, interactive guides, and reference apps for mediumship studies
- **Filtering** — use `Type` field to isolate Kardec's exposition from spirit Q&A
- **Multilingual NLP** — cross-language analysis of the same doctrinal content
- **Digital Humanities** — first machine-readable corpus of the Spiritist Codification

## Related Resources

- 📖 **O Livro dos Espíritos** — 1,019 Q&A in 4 languages: [ia-espirita/livro-dos-espiritos](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ia-espirita/livro-dos-espiritos)
- 🤖 **RIV IA** — Fine-tuned Spiritist AI model: [ia-espirita/riv-ai](https://huggingface.co/ia-espirita/riv-ai)
- 📊 **Training Dataset** — Q&A pairs from all 5 Kardec works: [ia-espirita/riv-ai-dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ia-espirita/riv-ai-dataset)
- 🌐 **IA.Espirita** — Try RIV IA live: [iaespirita.com](https://iaespirita.com)
- 🎬 **YouTube** — Spiritist content with modern aesthetic: [youtube.com/@ia.espirita](https://youtube.com/@ia.espirita)

## License

This dataset is released under **CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)**. Allan Kardec's works were published between 1857–1868 and are in the public domain worldwide.

## Citation

```
Allan Kardec. Le Livre des Médiums. Paris: Didier et Cie, 1861.
Brazilian edition: O Livro dos Médiuns. Tradução de Guillon Ribeiro. FEB.
Dataset structured by IA.Espirita (iaespirita.com), 2026.
```

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