Description: This book is in great condition Behind the Scenes with the Mediums by David Phelps Abbott Considered one of the best books on exposing and explaining the methods of spirit mediums. DEDICATION HALF HOURS WITH MEDIUMS I. Introduction II. Washington Irving Bishop's Sealed Letter Reading in a New Dress III. Test Where a Trick Envelope with a Double Front is used IV. Test Where the Medium Secretly Filches a Letter from the Pocket of the Sitter V. The Mystic Oracle of the Swinging Pendulums, or Mind over Matter. - A Rapping Hand. - Light and Heavy Chest VI. Tests Given in a Large Store Room with Curtains for Partitions, Using Telegraph, etc. VII. A Billet Test Using a Trick Envelope. - A Spirit Message Written on a Slate, in the Sitter's Presence VIII. Flower Materialization IX. The Dark Séance. - A Deceptive Grip. - Mental Tests. - Spirit Voices, Taps, and Lights X. Materialization. - Preparation of Luminous Costumes, Method of Presentation, etc. XI. Tests Given in a Room in a Hotel. - Slate-Writing on Slates Selected, Cleaned, and Held by Sitter. - Test Wherein the Sitter's Own Slates are Used. - Billet Work in Connection Therewith. - The Prepared Table XII. Reading Sealed Billets Before a Company in a Room in which Absolute Darkness Reigns MEDIUMISTIC READING OF SEALED WRITINGS I. Introduction II. Preparation of the Writings III. Reading the Writings. - Production of a Spirit Message IV. The Secrets Explained. - Slate Trick Requiring a Special Chair SPIRIT SLATE-WRITING AND BILLET TESTS I. Introduction II. Message Produced on One of a Stack of Slates, First Method. - Method Using a Rug or Newspaper III. Message on One of a Stack of Slates, Second Method. - How to Pass the Slates from One Hand to the Other IV. Message Produced When but Two Examined Slates are Used. - Some Expert Maneuvering, and the Importance of the "Pass" V. Message Produced on One of Two Slates Selected from a Stack, Third Method, where the "Pass" and Some Expert Maneuvering are Introduced. - Production of a Message Written with a Gold Ring Belonging to the Sitter VI. To Secretly Read a Question Written on a Slate by a Sitter, when a Stack of Slates is Use. - How to Secretly Obtain a Confession or Question, Written on Paper and Sealed by the Sitter, when a Stack of Slates is Used VII. Message Produced on a Slate Cleaned and Held under a Table by a Sitter VIII. Slate Trick Requiring Three Slates and a Flap. - The Same Used as a Conjuring Trick. - Preparation of the Slates IX. Slate Trick Requiring a Double-Hinged Slate and a Flap X. Independent Paper Writing. - Two Slates and a Silicate Flap Used XI. Slate Trick with a Single Slate and a Flap, which is Suitable for Platform Production. - Methods of Forcing the Selection of a Certain Word. - Methods of Forcing the Selection of a Sum of Figures. - The Same Trick Where Two Slates are Used. - The Same When Three Slates are Used, and a Spoken Question Answered, with Words in Colored Writing XII. Methods of Obtaining a Secret Impression of the Writing of a Sitter. - A Store-Room Reading where this is Used. - A Test Using a Prepared Book. - How to "Switch" a Question. - Tricks Depending on this Principle. - Tests Given by Various Chicago Mediums. - Reading a Message by Pressing it on a Skull Cap Worn by Medium XIII. Trick where the Sitter Brings his Own Slates. - Various Traps. - Psychometric Tests. - Message on Slates Wrapped in the Original Paper in which they were Purchased. - Other Messages XIV. Message on a Sitter's Slate Produced by a Rubber Stamp. - Message Produced by an Adroit Exchange of Slates. - Chemical Tricks. - Other Methods. - Means of Securing Information SOME MODERN SORCERY I. Presentation of the Tests II. Explanation of the Secrets III. The Same as Adapted to Work in a Double Parlor IV. The Use of the Card Servante and Blackboard SOME UNUSUAL MEDIUMISTIC PHENOMENA MATERIALIZATION THE RELATION OF MEDIUMSHIP TO PALMISTRY, ASTROLOGY, AND FORTUNE-TELLING PERFORMANCES OF THE ANNIE EVA FAY TYPE VEST TURNING AN IMPROVED BILLET TEST APPENDIX ADDENDA ANOTHER BILLET TEST THE SWINGING PENDULUMS AGAIN A BILLET TEST IMPROVED THE DOCTOR SCHLESSINGER ACT IMPROVED WIRELESS ELECTRICITY FOR MEDIUMISTIC TRICKS
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