Old Secrets and New Discoveries

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Excerpt from Old Secrets and New Discoveries: Containing Information of Rare Value Writing on the Arm. The conjuror's explan ation was a great lesson in spiritualism. I next asked him to elucidate the trick of writing on the arm. On the occasion Of my visit to Mr. Forster, when the raps indicated the second pellet, he required the spirit present to write the'initials on his bare arm. Mr. Forster placed his arm under the table for a moment, then rested it in front of a lamp burning on the table, and quickly rolled up the sleeve of his coat. The skin was without stain or mark. He pas sed his hand over it once or twice, and the initials of the names I had written on the second pellet seemed to grow on the arm in letters of crimson. It's a trick I do every night. It goes with the audience like steam, said the con juror. Very simple. Well, suppose a name. What name would you like? Henry Clay, I replied. Down went the conjuror's arm under the table. In a few seconds he raised it and exposed the bare forearm without mark upon it. He doubled up his fist tightly so as to bring the muscles of the arm to the surface, and rubbed the skin smartly with his Open hand. The letters H. C. Soon appeared upon it in well-defined writing of a deep red color. There you. Have it, gentlemen, that's the blood-red writing. Very simple. All you have to do is to take a lucifer-match, and write on! Your arm with the wrong end of it. If you moisten the. Skin with a little salt water first, all the better. Then wet the palm Of the other hand, rub your arm with it. Send up the' muscles and the blood-red writing will come out. It will. Fade away in less than no time. If you look under the table, 'you will see that I have a little piece of pointed wood. I' can move my arm under that and' write the letters without. Using the other hand. But that's a trick which wants practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.