SECRET PROFESSIONAL PSEUDO-HYPNOTIC METHODS

After more than twenty-five years actual contact with the

fraternity it is the writer's claim that there is no such thing
as Genuine Hypnotism.He challenges any person to bring forth
a single bit of proof to the contrary.
A "Hypnotist" must first know the "tricks of the trade".Secondly
he must have a commanding appearance and last but not least
he must have nerve — Just plain "Guts" and plenty of it.
It is not the object of this course of instruction to go into
the many ordinary tests where confederates are used.You can find
dozens of those in the dime books that profess how to become
a hypnotist.
Rather we will explain some of the best Feature Tests that may be
worked on genuine spectators as well as a few special ones
for "plants" These different methods are very easily
presented and little or no study is needed to put on a knockout
showelther before a group of friends at a party or before
Acquaintances and strangers at some impromptu affair.
If the test you are going to work requires a confederate and
some other person ( a genuine spectator) steps up it will be
necessary for you to "weed out" the genuine spectator so the
show will go on without a hitch.Or you can use one of the
tests suited to genuine spectators on the willing and eager one.

Once in a while you will get some sucker who thinks he is a

wise guy and he’ll challenge you to "hypnotise me if you can"
Then you can use the following method ( that the dealers have been
charging five to ten dollars for)
This is based on nerve and blood control and will put your
subject to sleep(?) no matter how sceptical he may be because
it makes him unconscious 1 But be careful to get a subject
'who is fit or maybe he won't wake yp when the time comes
and that would be Just too bad for everyone but the undertaker.
Bend your arms at the elbows and place the fingers of your hands
on the sides of your neck Just below the ears.Do you feel
those two veins there one on each side of the neck. You will
locate them easily because they throb and pulsate so very plainly
Those two veins carry the blood supply to your brain.Now if that
blood supply was to be cut off or stopped you would become
unconscious in a minute by the clock. Press firmly against
those veins right now and even a few seconds pressure makes you
weak and faint.
That's how some performers hypnotise.As they look into the
subjects eyes and talk to him in a soothing and hypnotic
tone of voice telling him he is getting sleepy etc they press
firmly on these veins.To the audience it merely seems that the
hypnotist has his hands at the sides of the subjects neck
tohold the head so that he will look him in the eye.
A minute is all it takes to put the best of men in under
with this foolproof method.But don't try to choke your subject
because if you stop his air and the blood at the same time, this
will slow down the heart beats and cause the heart to burst
from expansion.
Tell your subject to breathe deeply as you work this and when
his head sags In a dead faint, have him laid on a couch
with head slightly lower than his feet.This causes the blood
to once more flow to the brain and as a result his sleep(?)
lasts only a minute or two.
When you see your subject beginning to stir or see his eye lids
flicker you know he will soon come to and it is then up to you
to wake him up in your best hypnotic manner.Give him a slap
or two on his cheeks and command him to wake up.
Of course he will wake up anyhow, even if you walk off and
forget him but since you apparently put him to sleep by
hypnotism you must of course wake him by hypnotism too. He’ll
be none the worse when he does regain consciousness but perhaps
he will feel a little weak In his legs and be dizzy for a
minute or two. But what's the difference.He asked for it
and who can say ; maybe if there was real hypnotism a subject
would feel exactly like he does.
Now here's a method used by some performers for placing small
animals (white mice) as well as birds under control. Of course
we are all acquainted with 4hat old gag of sticking a birds
head under hisWing and then rodking or waving him to sleep
but this is better. From any one of a dozen different Novelty
Stores you can buy for 25c what is known a a Magical Plate Lifter
This is a long thin rubber tube on one end of which is attached
a small hollow rubber ixkBxx bulb and the other end has a thin
rubber bladder or balloon.This Is the apparatus used but first
the bladder must be removed and a few drops of chloroform
is placed In the hollow tMkaxbulb*
The bulb you then place next to your skin under your armpit
and the thin tube is run down inside your shirt sleeve ending
at the wriat.lt can be held in place with rubber bands slipped
over your arm.
To work the trick when you are hypnotising the bird or what
have you, the upper part of your arm squeezes against the
concealed bulb releasing the load right inthe subjects "Kisser"
A whiff or two soon puts them to sleep to the astonishment of
your audience.
Inasmuch as your arms and hands are continually moving, the
little squeeze passes unnoticed and there you are. Of course
if working In a confined space or closed room, it is advisable
to burn a little incense to do away with the odor.
Here is another test you can work at the same time — Just wave
your hands at an ordinary houseplant or bunch of cut flowers
(giving the necessary squeeze) and believe it or not the flowers
will at once droop or go to sleep! ¥es, because flowers too
like human beings breathe and are affected by chloroform.
Did you know that? Neither does one out of a thousand others.

Magnusons Great Hypnotic Tasts Control Test that we first

placed on the market back in 1928 is also based on a Plate
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Lifter. In the rubber bulb however you put a few grains of

saccharine which is a fine almost invisible white powder t±t*jcx 550
times sweeter than sugar. Any tank town drug store sells it.
Now if you spray out a little of this powder in the general
direction of any person, the very moment the tiniest particle
comes in contact with that persons lips he will experience
a sweet sensation in his mouth. If more powder is released so this
sweet sensation is continued for a brief space of time the taste turns
very bitter.
To work this test Just hold up a candy bar and tell your subject
that he is eating it, he can taste it In his mouth etc, making
your hypnotic suggestions very strong. Of course he tastes it and
we know why ! Then as soon as he openly admits he tastes it
put away the candu bar and show a bottle of some evil looking
medlcino instead.
Suggest he will taste the medicine “Oh how bitter it is “etc
and release a little more powder by arm pressure and he does get
a oittor taste in hla mouth. This test is a dandy one and you can
work it successfully on one two three or a doxen persons at the
same time.Just seat them in a semi-circle in front of you and get
busy spraying, and waving your arms. That’s all there is to it 1

Now let's go into several effects you can work on yourself or on

a confederate.These are the “Hindu Pulse and Heart Stopping
Tests" and the famous “Temperature Raising Effect"
If you will place a golf or other solid rubber ball under your
armpit (next to the skin) you can cause the pulse in that wrist
to stop beating by simply pressing the upper part of your arm
against the concealed ball, ‘‘‘ry It if you don't believe it. The
slight pressure stops the fl6w of the blood in the arm
and naturally the pulse too#
Or instead of using a ball in the arm, when you roll up your
shirt sleeve you can bunch it into a ball or pad under the muscle of
your upper arm and press this against your side. That is the
so-called "Oriental Non-Apparatus method"
Place a ball under each armpit and press against them both
at the same time and the retarded blood flow in both armB
backs up and causes a change in your heart beat# With careful
breathing it is possible to apparently make your heart stop
beating. Ovette made a great splash with this calling it “Black
Death" and selling thi3 secret alone at several dollars. -

The Temperature Raising Effect depends upon perfect timing and

a piece of G.I. Soap (Government Issue Soap) hidden under the
left armpit next to the skin.The minute or so it takes to work
is used by the performer for his lecture and — the surprise is
complete when the next minute the temperature la once again
registered and found to be so dangerously (?) altered.
Any strong laundry soap may be used is G.I. cannot be obtained.

The Blood Control Test in which you make vour own (or a subjects)
arm as white as a sheet is also very simple.Slip a loop made of a
piece of soft copper wire or cortf over your arm up under your shirt
sleeve.Ltt it reel on the Euscle of the uprer arm. 3rat yourself
or the sub loot sideways on an ordinary kitchen chair and extend your
arm over the back of the chair pain up 30 tb© arm rents on the
chair back near your shoulder , How when you are floated you have
hooked the loop ihex into or around one of the uprights on the
back of the chair rlmht through the shirt sleeve (Coat is removed)
To, make your arc dead whit© Just bear down with the muvclon
on the back of the chair and stretch your arm straight out so
the wire loop cuts into the flash and stops circulation of th®
blood.
To cause the arm to become normal arain you «Imply rovers© the
process.Let up on the pressure and loop no the blood flows amain.

Maybe you've neen the Human Bridge or Ri^ld Hf-'ect worked on the
star© and wondered how It was done. That's the effect in whioh a
spectator inv hypnotised" and made stiff aa a board. He Is then laid
on the backs of two chairs and several persons stand on hia body
This effect works itself. The subject is a confederate and helps
to put it over by fine acting* Anyone can hold hie arm. a 3**!Jr,xte*xxx
straight down hi? sides rod ke°r hlnself atiff if ho tries. There
is no great amount of strength needed.
The chairs should have' the backs paddcrl with Indian hiaukuts to
keep the backs from ceuslnr discomfort.. As you will find
upon Trying It there is no trick to holding several persons
on the body if one or Lwo blankets arc thrown over cheat and
stomach to keep the npscinfcora heals• fron dip-inf: in. ( Or got them
to remove their shoes.)
Likewise mc3t parsons don(t know that you can break a stone
in two on anyones chest if the pledge hammer used ly llmht. The
heavy stone absorbs the blows end the sledge rebounces with each
strike. And then the suckers all think IMttese marvels are due
to Hypnotism !

Here's a mood stunt to pull at that, next party and if you put it over
rlvht you wil] ^ind it will brir.m down the house.
Announce thst you will try to influence some party through the use
of aurmsstion no it will be impossible for that person to finish
playinr or whlstllnm a certain tune, let a volunteer, who is not
a confederate by the way and rtand him at one end of the room
so that although your "hypnotic suggestions" will carry to the
audience, anything you may have to say to him privately , on the
side cannot b© heard.
If using a musician get on© who plays a tremnst or ootce kind of
wind instrument, or simply hnv® someone who can whistle pretty
good. Nevertheless have him start his music and then the moment
tie bemins you com-and in a loud voice that ha la matting tired
he is ho tired he can't rerembtr one note from the other etc.
But — in between these commands and auroostIons you talk to the
subject alone about - - Lemons 1 "Ch how Bour it is.Just think
if you d be catinm one now "etc. Now believe it or not if the
subject is an average oian and your apttor is convincing it will no t
bo Ion? before he mioses a note or two. In fact not only Odos ho
mic.n several notes but hie mouth will start to wo ter so that
In a few brief momenta ho will rive up in diaguut.
If your subject is strong willed you can still "floor him”
and save the day by bringing out a real half lemon and start
eating. it in front of him.Of course everyone will then real!so
that this Is a Joke or ”sell out'1 but the effect is no funny that
In nine casco cut of ten the sucker loins In the laughter of the
rest of the audience.

The information river’ you In this manuscript- course will enable

you to put cn n very mystifying demonstration of "hypnotic 3'over"
whenever cal led upon to do eo. Of course if it is your plan to
rive exhibitions of this type in public (instead cf before frlends()
it is best to take in an hypnotic performance cr two to ee-e the
general order of hinges
|f you don't, have the opportunity to do bo the next test thing
and study all the literature you can possibly get held of cn the
subject
Kov? remember. It's your Job to entertain your audience and
give them food for though t • Wha t they don’t know do tan' t hurt thee.
Of course you use trickery to make vour " hyynctiiin" ; oe< ibic but
so does every other "hypnotist" too.
Act the part you «re sunpoBeci to be. ~'o convincing in everything
you aay and do. Use showraanHhip in otuer words, formet all the
bunk .you have ever read or heard about h.J-.L hypnotism as far co your
own desires arc concerned. Use all the "hucker bunk'' that you
have have read in trie past to " Impress vour ami 1 ence onjv. And
remember that although whst. you have learned may seem very simple
to vou , to vour audience these tests are coin? to bo deep
weird mysteries.
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