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The apparatus consists of a small circular musical box, wound up by clock work, and made to play whenever pressure is put upon a stud projecting a quarter of an inch from its surface
Read record →The students having a scientific trend of mind, provided themselves before attending the performance with pyrotechnic balls containing phosphorus, so made as to ignite suddenly with a bright light
Read record →Robert-Houdin's explanation of the slip-knot, used by the Davenports in their dark séance, is the correct one, but he failed to fathom the mystery of the mode of release of the Brothers after they were tied in the cabinet by a committee selected from the audie
Read record →In the year 1895, after an unbroken silence of nineteen years, Fay, ex-assistant of the Davenports, determined to resume the profession of public medium
Read record →The medium holds out his left wrist first and has it tied securely, about the middle of the rope
Read record →The Fay method of tying is designed especially to facilitate the medium's actions
Read record →The peculiar manner of holding the hands, described above, enables the medium to secure for her use, a ligature of knotted cloth between her hands, some six inches long; and the central bandage, usually tied in four or five double knots, gives her about two in
Read record →It is a trick performed by every conjurer, and the secret is a piece of black silk thread, worked by confederates stationed in the wings of the theatre, one at the right, the other at the left
Read record →Hands are placed on the table, and developments awaited
Read record →The "spirit neck-tie" is one of the best things in the whole range of mediumistic marvels, and has never to my knowledge been exposed
Read record →Kase to say a few words as to the necessity of observing the conditions, need of harmony, etc
Read record →"After some piano music the medium said he felt no power from this 'battery,' and asked Mrs
Read record →"The guitar was then thrust out, at least the end of it was, at the bottom of the curtain, between Mrs
Read record →"When the guitar was held up, and when the tambourine was made to whirl, both of these were to the right of the medium, chiefly behind Mrs
Read record →C., is sufficiently convincing on this point
Read record →Leonard Caughey, of Baltimore, Maryland, an intimate friend of the writer, made a specialty of anti-Spiritualistic tricks, and among others performed this cabinet test of Keeler's
Read record →The materializing medium who has caused the greatest sensation since Home's death is Eusapia Paladino, an Italian peasant woman
Read record →Tabor is a materializing medium whose specialty is the trumpet test for the production of spirit voices
Read record →It is not a difficult matter to explain this trumpet test
Read record →Tabor has another method of holding which is far more deceptive than the above
Read record →not mention, but which the facts entirely justify, and it is that since many of the apparitions occurred not merely on the day, but at the very hour or minute of death, the improbability of their explanation by chance is really much greater than the figures he
Read record →In my investigations of the physical phenomena of modern spiritualism, I have come to the following conclusion: While the majority of mediumistic manifestations are due to conjuring, there is a class of cases not ascribable to trickery, namely, those coming wi
Read record →Explain to a person that water is composed of two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, and he can easily verify the fact for himself by combining the gases, in the combination of H2O, and afterwards liberate them by a current of electricity
Read record →Romaine Newbold, "In the scientific world it has fallen into such disfavor that in many circles it is almost as disgraceful to avow belief in it as in witchcraft or ghosts." We have to-day a school of "physiological-psychology," calling itself "psychology with
Read record →The greatest "fantaisiste" of modern times was Madame Blavatsky, spirit medium, Priestess of Isis, and founder of the Theosophical Society
Read record →Blavatsky drew a great circle upon the ground about the monument, and invited the Countess to stand within the mystic confines
Read record →"At this period of her career she had not,"[4] says Dr
Read record →This and the red shirt were what struck my attention before I took in the picture of her features
Read record →There were strange reports set afloat at the time of the organization of the Society of the mysterious appearance of a Hindoo adept in his astral body at the "lamasery" on Forty-seventh street
Read record →Coulomb were expelled from the Society by the General Council, during the absence of the High Priestess and Col
Read record →Finally, the High Priestess produced her chef d' oeuvre, the psychometric reading of a letter
Read record →Finally came the last act of this strange life-drama
Read record →Oriental philosophy with its Indeterminate Being (or pure nothing as the Absolute) ends in the utter negation of everything and affords no clue to the secret of the Universe
Read record →Certain now that there was something there that badly needed human consolation, I addressed the chair, and, failing to get any verbal answer from it, I tried a code of raps
Read record →I seemed to be there--to have a very familiar form--but to be nothing more than form--to have no tangibility
Read record →that they were merely critical at present, merely deliberating what attitude they should adopt towards us; and I felt that the whole atmosphere of the house was impregnated with a sense of the utmost mystery--a mystery soluble only to those belonging, in the t
Read record →Some advised him one thing, and some another
Read record →When the night fixed for the séance arrived, the weather conditions were all that could be desired; the air was soft and calm, the moon brilliant, the sky almost cloudless, and promising only the finest weather for days to come
Read record →But he had been too scared to look at it very closely, and he only knew for certain that where her head should have been there was nothing
Read record →An exclamation of horror interrupted him
Read record →"It's a case of suggestion," he argued
Read record →Anything----" There was then a moment of the most intense silence, and then a shriek
Read record →How long had it been left, and where was its owner?
Read record →ffect--a sad one--forcibly reminded me of the end of all things--death; and the sadness of it harmonised well with an air of silent expectation that seemed suddenly to have filled the whole house
Read record →"It was all too cruelly brief; for with the vision my old ego vanished too; and I felt--I knew it had been wrested from me and hurried to some far-off place where the like of my present self could not be admitted
Read record →Following the direction of his eyes, I looked down into the garden, and there, gazing up at us, her curls shining gold in the hot summer sun, stood the little ghost
Read record →The idea of a theatre being haunted--a theatre where everything is bright and everyone full of life--must, for the moment, strike one as preposterous
Read record →The proprietors affect ignorance and of course tell you nothing
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