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Second sight secrets and mechanical magic

Chapter 1: SECOND SIGHT SECRETS AND MECHANICAL MAGIC
By Herman Pinetti
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The author offers practical explanations and mechanical solutions for stage illusions and purported spiritualist phenomena, describing apparatus and methods behind cabinet tricks, table levitations, a levitating girl, second sight and mind-reading effects, and parlor amusements. Detailed step-by-step descriptions reveal trapdoors, hollow supports, hidden assistants, and concealed mechanisms, and the narrative emphasizes performers' observational skill and misdirection over supernatural causes. Instructions include construction and operation of devices, tests used by audiences, and cautions about how performers change methods when one is exposed.

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Title: Second sight secrets and mechanical magic

Author: Herman Pinetti

Release date: January 1, 2025 [eBook #75010]

Language: English

Original publication: Bridgeport: The Dunham Press, 1905

Credits: Bob Taylor, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECOND SIGHT SECRETS AND MECHANICAL MAGIC ***

SECOND SIGHT
SECRETS
AND
MECHANICAL MAGIC

BY

DR. HERMAN PINETTI

BRIDGEPORT, CONN.



BEING A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF MANY OF THE LATEST EFFECTS IN MECHANICAL MAGIC, TOGETHER WITH SECRETS AND EXPLANATIONS OF HOW MANY OF THE PERFORMANCES IN SECOND SIGHT AND MIND-READING ARE PERFORMED.