Harry Houdini

A Magician Among the Spirits

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Produktbeschreibung

Harry Houdini (1874 1926) published this expos of the practices of fraudulent mediums and psychics in 1924.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108027489
• ISBN-10: 1108027482
• Artikelnr.: 33118670

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Preface
1. The founders of modern spiritualism
2. The Davenport brothers
3. Daniel Dunglas Home
4. Palladino
5. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
6. Dr. Slade and his spirit slates
7. Slate writing and other methods
8. Spirit photography
9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Why ectoplasm?
11. By-products of spiritualism
12. Investigations - wise and otherwise
13. How mediums obtain information
14. What you must believe to be a spiritualist
15. Magicians as detectors as fraud
16. Conclusion
Appendix
Index.