Description

An expose of routines, apparatus and deceptions resorted to by mediums, clairvoyants, fortune tellers and crystal gazers in deluding the public.

Excerpt from the introduction:This manuscript was compiled primarily for the benefit of uninformed magicians, enabling them to adopt the various tricks and effects for their own amusement or to detect fraudulent mediums in the presentation of alleged spiritualistic communications.

DEDICATIONINTRODUCTIONROPE TIESBLINDFOLDSSEALED ENVELOPE READINGAlcohol MethodWax PadsBack Of House StealSwitching In AudienceChanging BagChanging BasketMirror BowlBowl And StandBowl And TongsCarbon Table TopThe Ink BottleThe Clip BoardTRANSMITTING CONTENTS OF MESSAGESDirect Connection TelephoneInduction SystemThe Blackboard MethodCushion And CrystalReader StandFaro Box Hand ReaderConcealed ReaderReader BallsMechanical BallsReading From Face Of WatchReading Off CuffUsing Edge Of EnvelopeMarking On One EnvelopeHanding Back Original QueriesTrumpet SeanceReading Under SheetPSYCHIC TESTSThought Transmission TestStylus MethodParlor Thought TransferenceThe Want Ad TestFlap SlatesMedium’s Slate MysteryThe Bolted SlatesMechanical SlatesHinged Flap SlateWedge And Steel HookSlate SwitchesRapping HandsElectric MagnetNeedle Point MethodWeighted HandBible TestTalking SkullSpirit ClockSpirit PhotographyThe Sand FrameTable LiftingFloating BallCLAIRVOYANCE OR SECOND SIGHTSuggested Feats In AudiencePlaying Selected Pieces On Piano”Object” CodeSilent Thought Transmission TestSPIRITUALISTIC EFFECTSFloating LightMaterializationA Typical SeanceMISCELLANEOUSThe Living And The DeadThe Haunted HandkerchiefSecond Sight With ClockPenetrating Glass Of WaterHindoo LotaThe Bewitched UmbrellaFinding Hidden Articles While BlindfoldedThe Spirit AnswerThe Ghost’s MessageSack EscapesBlack ArtThe Fortune Telling BallThe Cut And Restored TurbanCatching Live Pigeons Out Of The AirThe Obedient BallIN CONCLUSION

1st edition 1922, 120 pages; PDF 74 pages.