What shall we do to-night? or, Social amusements for evening parties. Furnishing complete and varied programmes for twenty-six entertainments (1873)
Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901 · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 261
nded victim and asks the hostess if he can have two glassesof water, standing in two plates. This produces the blackenedplate, and a clean one, upon each of them a glass of clearwater. Handing the blackened plate to the subject who is to be mag-netized, he takes the clean plate and says, seating… … Fig. 92. the numbness that precedes the trance causes it to drop fromMr. shand? THE TWENTT-FIBST EVENING. 259 He now proceeds to make several motions with his open hand,keeping his eyes fixed upon his victim, till he has his undividedattention. He then dips his finger in the water, and drawing…
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