Eusapia Palladino was an Italian Spiritualist physical medium.
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36 Facts About Eusapia Palladino
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Eusapia Palladino claimed extraordinary powers such as the ability to levitate tables, communicate with the dead through her spirit guide John King, and to produce other supernatural phenomena.
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Eusapia Palladino convinced many persons of her powers, but was caught in deceptive trickery throughout her career.
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Eusapia Palladino subsequently visited Warsaw in the second half of May 1898, on her way from St Petersburg to Vienna and Munich.
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Eusapia Palladino was found liberating her hands by placing the hand of the controller on her left on top of the hand of the controller on her right.
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Eusapia Palladino tried constantly to free her hands from control and was caught lowering a letter-scale by means of a hair.
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Eusapia Palladino produced in his book alleged levitation photographs of a table and an impression of a face in putty.
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Eusapia Palladino stated that the impressions of faces in putty were always of Palladino's face and could have easily been made, and she was not entirely clear from the table in the levitation photographs.
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In 1905, Eusapia Palladino came to Paris, where Nobel-laureate physicists Pierre Curie and Marie Curie and Nobel-laureate physiologist Charles Richet investigated her amongst other philosophers and scientists such as Henri Bergson and Jacques-Arsene d'Arsonval.
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In 1907, Eusapia Palladino was found using a strand of her hair to move an object toward herself and it was noted by investigators that the objects were not outside of her easy reach.
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Lombroso's subsequent conversion, reported by the press in Italy and the world, was instrumental to Eusapia Palladino's reaching celebrity status at the turn of the century.
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Eusapia Palladino studied Palladino and concluded that some of her phenomena were genuine – evidence for an unknown bio-psychic force present in all humans.
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Eusapia Palladino has been proved to be a very clever prestigiateuse and cheat, and was visited by a Mr Carrington.
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Eusapia Palladino's plan was to repeat the famous earlier 1908 Naples sittings with Palladino.
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Eusapia Palladino evaded control and was caught moving objects with her foot, shaking the curtain with her hands, moving the cabinet table with her elbow and touching the seance sitters.
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In 1992, Richard Wiseman analyzed the Feilding report of Eusapia Palladino and argued that she employed a secret accomplice that could enter the room by a fake door panel positioned near the seance cabinet.
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Eusapia Palladino visited America in 1909 with Hereward Carrington as her manager.
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Eusapia Palladino's arrival was publicized by the American press, with newspapers such as the New York Times and magazines such as the Cosmopolitan publishing numerous articles on the Italian medium.
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Eusapia Palladino had observed Palladino free her foot from her shoe and use her toes to move a guitar in the seance cabinet.
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Munsterberg claimed that Eusapia Palladino moved the curtains from a distance in the room by releasing a jet of air from a rubber bulb that she had in her hand.
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Eusapia Palladino's tricks had been exposed many times before, yet she had prospered.
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Eusapia Palladino was offered $1000 by Rinn if she could perform a feat in controlled conditions that could not be duplicated by magicians.
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Eusapia Palladino eventually agreed to the contest but did not turn up for it, and instead returned to Italy.
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Eusapia Palladino was shown to be substituting her hand or foot and using them in darkened seances to move objects so that they appeared to be levitating.
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Eusapia Palladino dictated the lighting and "controls" that were to be used in her mediumistic seances.
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Eusapia Palladino's feet rested on top of the feet of her controllers, sometimes beneath them.
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Eusapia Palladino normally refused to allow someone beneath the table to hold her feet with his hands.
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Eusapia Palladino refused to levitate the table from a standing position.
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Eusapia Palladino was an expert at freeing a hand or foot to produce phenomena.
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Eusapia Palladino chose to sit at the short side of the table so that her controllers on each side had to sit closer together, making it easier to deceive them.
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Eusapia Palladino lifted the table by rocking back on the heel of this foot.
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Eusapia Palladino made the "spirit" raps by striking a leg of the table with a free foot.
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Laura Finch, editor of the Annals of Psychical Science, wrote in 1909 that Eusapia Palladino had "erotic tendencies" and some of her male seance sitters were deluded or "glamoured" by her presence.
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