Baroness Adelma Vay de Vaya, born Countess Adelaide von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, (October 20, 1840, Ternopil, Galicia - May 24, 1925), also known as Adelma von Vay was a medium and pioneer of spiritualism in Hungary.
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Vay was the elder daughter of Hereditary Count Ernst von Wurmbrand Stuppach and his wife, Countess Rosa Teleki von Szék (later wife of Friedrich, Prince of Solms-Baruth). She inherited the mystique of having powers from her mother. She was reputed to have prophetic gifts and to be clairvoyant. She wrote, spoke and drew in an apparent trance-like state. She was a famous homeopath and attempted to cure people using magnetism.
On March 12, 1860, she married Baron Odon (Edmond) Vay de Vaya. In 1873 she and her husband founded at Budapest the Verein spiriter Forscher (Hungarian Spiritualist Association); they became its first presidents.
Vay was author of many books, written in German and translated into English: