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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 54
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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“We looked pleased and Eusapia began to feel at home

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“We looked pleased and Eusapia began to feel at home. With a little rest, the rocking was resumed and she considered it safe to risk the entire levitation. Holding Kellogg’s left hand up in the air with her right she put my right hand, palm down, on the top of the table, directly over the left table leg; then put her left hand over mine, the tips of the fingers extending rather over my hand and touching the table. No other hands were upon it. Then, after a few partial levitations, the table went up into the air with every leg off the floor. It was our first complete levitation. As beautiful as any on record and _given under bright lights_.”

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