Behind The Scenes With The Mediums - David Abbott - Mitchell Estate

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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
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