Date: 2018-07-18 12:52:376
Name: Anonymous
Comments:
Dear Sirs,
Kindly check the below video clip at 0.25 speed or if possible
slower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sgnHcYbaxc
from 4.42 - 4.46 his RIGHT HAND and his
movements before 4.42 (edit Ex Baba admin on 07-20-18:
we could't find, but
Robert Priddy did, as he was pointed out to it by the writer of this
comment in the Ex Baba guestbook!)
from 8.48 - 8.53 his LEFT HAND and movements
(edit Ex Baba admin: from 6:48 - 6:54)
Harder evidence you cannot find.
If you check all the vihuti videos, you see him holding piles of
letters in order to hide materials or vibhuti. His 4+5th fingers
are always bent, then if the materials are handed over to
devotees, he holds the letter with all five hands.
Even in the famous pot vibhuti show, once he pulls down the pot
which was held too high by the old man. (We still cannot prove
this one but in other clips, you see clearly him taken objects
in left hand over to the right hand)
Ex Baba admin:
Terrific ! Thanks !! Another new fraud video from a visitor to
our site ! We will make a posting out of it !
Comment from Robert Priddy:
These are good video quality and from a new
angle. The short clip definitely seems to show him putting (something)
into his mouth … but the object if any cannot be seen.
In fact, that would not be the full stage magic trick, because
Houdini and his many copyists actually swallowed the egg-shaped
objects and then regurgitated them. Houdini learnt his from some
Japanese person… started off swallowing a potato on a secure
string and so learning to bring it up without the string when
confidence was established, I am almost certain Baba did it that
way in the earlier days.
I have written this:
The trick was used in
stage magic by Houdini: ”During my engagement in
1895 with Welsh Bros. Circus I became quite well
acquainted with a [Japanese] of the San Kitchy Akimoto
troupe and from him I learned the method of swallowing
quite large objects and bringing them up at will. For
practice very small potatoes are used at first, to guard
against accident; and after one has mastered the art of
bringing these up, the size is increased gradually till
objects as large as the throat will receive can be
swallowed and returned." (Houdini, Miracle
Mongers and their Methods, Coles 1980, (reprint), pp.
160-161).
