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Behind the scenes with the mediums (1916)
Behind the scenes with the mediums - 1916 Author:David Phelps Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: by adroit questions addressed to other citizens, in the course of his stay in the towns. When the medium sends out a circular letter, he immediately prepares ... more »an envelope with a suitable message and labels it on a separate slip of paper. He also writes on this slip a note which reminds him of what the letter must consist, which he is to dictate to this subject when she arrives. All persons do not respond to these circulars; but a goodly number do respond, and when one arrives, she usually introduces herself or else presents to the medium the letter which he wrote to her. As soon as a subject introduces herself and states her business, the medium retires to another room to get his box of stationery and of course selects the properly prepared envelope and places it in the box where he can easily choose it. He also reads his notes and is now prepared to dictate the letter for the subject to write. I have known other mediums to use this same trick, but not in so effective a manner as this medium uses it. A first-class medium is not only expert in the performance of certain particular tricks, but is also very resourceful when occasion demands it, and is particularly expert in the use of language. I can not better illustrate this than by giving a short account of a private reading which a certain medium of considerable renown gave to a gentleman in Omaha some five years ago. The medium was traveling under the name Dr. Lee H—. He was really very expert, and simply mystified all with whom he came in contact. His tricks, fromwhat I can learn of them from descriptions given to me by observers, were surely very superior. My informant, an advertising agent for a daily paper, is a mutual friend of the medium and myself, well versed in trickery and mediumistic work, and the med...« less