A Benares Lady Magnet
A Benares Lady Magnet A visitor to India finds a “Devil Woman” with the power to levitate and magnetically attract man and beast.
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‘conjuring’
Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings
Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings Six methods proposed as explanations for spirit paintings, which were found, freshly painted by spirits, in the seance room.
Little Men with Axes: Fairies or Clever Conjuring?
Two “rustics” create extraordinary effects in 18th century Gloucestershire: a tree growing from a solid mahogany table and little men with axes to chop it down. Tree spirits, Knockers, or a clever conjuring trick?
Breathe Once for ‘Yes’: Guibal and Greville’s Mind-Reading Act
Breathe Once for ‘Yes’: Guibal and Greville’s Mind-Reading Act Arthur Guibal and Marie Greville use a breathing code to mystify audiences of their mind-reading act.