Behind the Scenes With the Mediums (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

David P. Abbott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451015224 ISBN 13 : 9781451015225

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Behind the Scenes With the Mediums pulls back the curtain on the tricks and techniques used by 19th- and early 20th-century mediums.

It offers firsthand descriptions of how readings are conducted, questions are obtained, and messages are produced—often in ways that look mysterious to observers. The book combines observational detail with practical notes that illuminate the performer's craft as well as the skeptical inquiry surrounding it.

Readers will find concrete explanations of slate tricks, billet tests, and methods for duplicating and transferring written material. The text also surveys various props, settings, and stages where demonstrations occurred, helping curious readers understand the difference between illusion and claimed communication. While the material discusses methods in the context of performance, it remains grounded in historical and practical context rather than sensational speculation.

• Descriptions of slate writing, billet handling, and secret reading techniques
• Discussion of props, setups, and stagecraft used in mediumistic readings
• Explanations of how concealment, palming, and exchanges produce convincing readings
• Context on the interplay between performance, belief, and skepticism

Ideal for readers curious about the history of spiritualism, stage magic, and the mechanics behind seemingly inexplicable demonstrations.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

HALF HOURS VITH 11EDIUlvIS. 1. IT is probably due to the scientific training of the present age that there are those amongst us who cal1 not accept the promise of immortality on faith alone. Such as these require something in the nature of a positive proof for any belief which they may entertain. They seem nnconsciously to realize that the chances of any unproven proposition or statement being untrue are vastly in the majority. Such persons seem to feel that if a race of thinking beings were slowly evolved upon a flying ,,,"orld, the majority of ideas which such beings would evolve in their minds, jf unproven, ,voultl not correspond with objective facts; that only those which could be proven in some manner ,,",ould possess a value; that the chances are greatly against the probability of the trllth of unproven ideas of things and existence in general; also that minus which could in a superstitious age evolve and believe in such superstitions as 'vvitchcrait, sorc

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PACK; HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS; 1 Introduction • ]; n Vashington Irving Bishop's Sealed Letter Reading; in a New Dress 5; III Test Vhere a Trick EnveJope with a Double Front; is used " " 14; IV Test Where the Medium Secretly Filches a Letter; from the Pocket of the Sjtter 20; V TIle Mystic Oracle of the Swinging Pendulums) or; Jllinll over Matter-A Rapping Hand-Light and; I-Ieavy Chest 28; VI Tests Given in a Large Store ROOIn with Curtains; for Partitions, Using Telegraphy, etc 35; VII A DiJlet Test Using a Trick EnveJope-A Spirit; Message Written on a Slate, in the Sitter's Pres-; Clle: ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 39; vur Flower Materialization 50; IX The Dark Seance-A DtX:eptive Grip-11ental Tests; -Spirit Voices, Taps, and tights 53; X Materialization - Prevaration of Luminous Costumes,; ~1ethod of l

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451015224
• ISBN 13: 9781451015225
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
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