Hoaxes and Legends have played a significant role in the history of Upstate New York. The Cardiff Giant, for example, attracted such attention from the public and from writers such as Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum that PT Barnum made a copy which toured the country with his circus. The fame of the Fox Sisters' seances helped to establish the 19th Century reputation of Central and Western New York as the "Burned-over district" as well as the American movement of Spiritualism (centered in Lily Dale) that taught communication with the dead.