M. Rhys, a manufacturer of conjuring implements and himself an inventor of tricks, wrote the Davenpo
- Date of account
- Published 1924
- Source
- A Magician Among the Spirits
- Reference
- A Magician Among the Spirits · selected passage 44
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
Home gained wide notoriety for unusual phenomena by his reputed levitation acts, wherein he would slide from the chair on which he was sitting to a horizontal position, then ask to have the chair removed as it was not supporting him, and would “float” under a table and back, but his masterpiece, the incident oftenest r…
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyHome gained wide notoriety for unusual phenomena by his reputed levitation acts, wherein he would slide from the chair on which he was sitting to a horizontal position, then ask to have the chair removed as it was not supporting him, and would “float” under a table and back, but his masterpiece, the incident oftenest referred to, was sailing out of a window feet first, and sailing into another, seven feet and four inches distant, landing feet first in an adjacent room, where he “sat down.” Lord Adare, an observer, expressed surprise that he could have been carried through an aperture so narrow as eighteen inches whereupon “Home, still entranced said, ‘I will show you,’ _and then with his back to the window he leaned over and was shot out of the aperture head first, with the body rigid, and then returned quite quietly_.”[42][43]
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