This hard-to-find booklet reveals the methods of psychic mediums and their phony séances.
Originally published in the 1930s, this new, updated edition contains a wealth of added information. Audiences enjoy seeing the psychic entertainer perform effects based on historically accurate settings. If you perform or lecture, you may wish to reveal a few inside secrets of fraudulent mediums by picking and choosing from among the ones detailed by the author. If you do this, your audiences will hang onto your every word.
No matter if you're a psychic yourself, offering services to the general public, a magician looking to add an authentic air of mystery to his or her act, or a psychic investigator/fraud buster looking for information to spice up your next lecture, interview or podcast, the information in this ebook will enlighten and increase your "street cred."
Partial contents include:
- Spirit Rappings
- Table Tipping
- Spirit Readings
- Spirit Writing
- Slate Writing
- The Reaching Rod
- Flashing Lights
- Spirit Music
- Trumpet Séances
- Rope Escapes
- Ectoplasm
- Materializations
- Blasts of Air
- Spirit Photographs
- Spirit Paintings
- Obtaining Information
Magic World Publishers revised and expanded edition features two new chapters, twelve added illustrations, plus several edits and corrections.
1st edition ~1930, PDF 38 pages.
word count: 9383 which is equivalent to 37 standard pages of text