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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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