Tricks
How do the Mediums tricks work at Séances and there other tricks?
I am just wondering how the “Table-Tilting” trick and other tricks work at the Mediums feats?
Someone tell me?
I am asking from a skeptics point of view!
First of all you are quite right to describe them as ‘tricks’ any stage magician will tell you that psychics who do this are complete fakes.
There are many of these conjuring tricks performed, it isn’t just one trick, for example in a very dark room an accomplice dressed in black can walk around shaking tambourines and blowing trumpets completely unobserved.
So called ectoplasm is just muslin cleverly concealed and produced by sleight of hand.
These sort of tricks are rarely performed these days, especially as the ‘Great Harry Houdini’ during his world tours exposed fake mediums wherever he went.
Here’s an old book explaining how some of these were done.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3iADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=table+tilting+by+fake+mediums&source=bl&ots=150X4YV5bU&sig=dDM8C-cJs42cIcR-aNF0Lf303xk&hl=en&ei=2yyATL2IFpSa4Ab1yKXTCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=table%20tilting%20by%20fake%20mediums&f=false
These days James Randi continues Houdini’s work in exposing these charlatans with a $1,000,000 challenge to anyone who can perform any paranormal feat under controlled but mutually agreed conditions.
Table tipping explained.
http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/table%20tipping.html
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