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"Psychics" and their tricks and how are they performed

Yes i did enjoy the video, i was referring to how the "blood" picture looked sticky because of how much it seemed to have just stuck in one place, as well i mentioned it might be cotton absorbing the "blood". But the bloodspill patterns on that photo looked really weired though
 
Setsurinvich said:
Yes i did enjoy the video, i was referring to how the "blood" picture looked sticky because of how much it seemed to have just stuck in one place, as well i mentioned it might be cotton absorbing the "blood". But the bloodspill patterns on that photo looked really weired though
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A friend of mine has worked on a bunch of low-budget horror movies. He has his own recipe for stage blood, and a major component is very sticky: corn syrup. In Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho, they used chocolate syrup as stage blood. It worked because the film was black-and-white. And the blood, like the syrup, was sticky.
 
Psychic surgery trick video,

Nay Sayer -
Thanks for that link. When I talk about psychic surgery and other frauds in class I'll be sure to show this video.
 
i just read perhaps what is the most absurd thing this "healer" supposedly done- a person had claimed this healer told them that their skull was decalcifying and that the healer had "plugged" in the holes.... yeah thats not an actual thing is it?
 
I called a friend who is an oncologist at Emory University Hospital, interrupting his lunch, and asked about skull decalcification. His reply: "That's bull ****."
 
Setsurinvich said:
Yes i did enjoy the video, i was referring to how the "blood" picture looked sticky because of how much it seemed to have just stuck in one place, as well i mentioned it might be cotton absorbing the "blood". But the bloodspill patterns on that photo looked really weired though
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You have to remember that the majority of laypeople have no idea how blood behaves, or what it looks like during surgery. You don't have to make it absolutely realistic for it to have verisimilitude.
 
arthwollipot said:
You have to remember that the majority of laypeople have no idea how blood behaves, or what it looks like during surgery. You don't have to make it absolutely realistic for it to have verisimilitude.
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Furthering that point psychic surgery is far more common in underdeveloped areas with poor education.
 
arthwollipot said:
You have to remember that the majority of laypeople have no idea how blood behaves, or what it looks like during surgery. You don't have to make it absolutely realistic for it to have verisimilitude.
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i guess you are right about that! Also i remembered reading about this "healer" performing in super dark rooms, but the photos i found seem to show her working in rooms with adequate lighting. (There are clear shadows in the background). It is possible to tell if there was adequate lighting in a room with black and white photography?
 
Setsurinvich said:
i just read perhaps what is the most absurd thing this "healer" supposedly done- a person had claimed this healer told them that their skull was decalcifying and that the healer had "plugged" in the holes.... yeah thats not an actual thing is it?
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Anybody dumb enough to believe that must have a hole in their head.
 
Setsurinvich said:
i guess you are right about that! Also i remembered reading about this "healer" performing in super dark rooms, but the photos i found seem to show her working in rooms with adequate lighting. (There are clear shadows in the background). It is possible to tell if there was adequate lighting in a room with black and white photography?
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I'm no expert, but I believe shadows show up quite well in black and white.
 
Setsurinvich said:
i guess you are right about that! Also i remembered reading about this "healer" performing in super dark rooms, but the photos i found seem to show her working in rooms with adequate lighting. (There are clear shadows in the background). It is possible to tell if there was adequate lighting in a room with black and white photography?
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Whatever shows up in a photograph for lighting can be very different from how it appears in the actual scene. Your eyes adjust a lot but most of the time you don't notice it.
 
Setsurinvich said:
i guess you are right about that! Also i remembered reading about this "healer" performing in super dark rooms, but the photos i found seem to show her working in rooms with adequate lighting. (There are clear shadows in the background). It is possible to tell if there was adequate lighting in a room with black and white photography?
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In both of the photographs you provided, look carefully at her right hands pose.

That is a typical stage magician concealment method. Having used it myself, I know it when I see it.
 
While we can never "prove" psychic surgery doesn't happen. I's just that, from what is known about biology and the human body, it very unlikely that we have grass or chicken entrails inside.

As with other fake phenomena such as spoon bending and etc, the fact that this trick can be exactly duplicated by slight-of-hand has to be overcome before it can be considered "true".
 
abaddon said:
In both of the photographs you provided, look carefully at her right hands pose.

That is a typical stage magician concealment method. Having used it myself, I know it when I see it.
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isnt it her left hand doing "funny" things?
 
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