Karson, Joe: Hypnotricks ©1940 Joe Karon Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 21 pages ©1943 Second Revised Edition

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Comments: Note: the second edition removed the potentially dangerous "The Subject Sleeps in One Minute" from the first edition, and added a few others, indicated with an * below. Available as an eBook as part of the Joe Karson Compilation, from Lybrary.com.

Contents (from Joe Karson Compilation edition):

1 Author's Note (Joe Karson)
2 Contents
3 Hypnotricks: introduction
5 The Psychology Of Handling This Type of Act
6 Ideas for a Lecture: intro
7 Hypnotizing An Entire Audience: two experiments for the whole audience
8 Stopping Anyone's Pulse: using pressure
8 The Wooden Leg Test: spectator can't raise their leg
9 The Rubber Arm: illusion
10 Backward And Forward: influencing the subject
10 Magnetic Currents: hand stunt
11 Control Over Heart And Pulse: using breathing
12 A Bug In His Ear: spectator feels the sensation
12 Weak And Strong - Knocking Hands Apart: physical stunt
13 Subject Cannot Stand: from a chair
13 Lost Sense Of Direction: hearing experiment
14 No Sense of Taste: exploring the relation between smell and taste
14 Writing In Blood: a bizarre experiment
15 Light And Heavy Lifting: experiment in balance
16 The Rigid Subject: can be propped between chairs and sat upon
16 Men Chasing Bees: impromptu confederates
17 The Group Falls: with assistance of a confederate
18 Needles Through Flesh: piercing the ear
18 Dancing Ducks: in a cage
18 Rooster and Chicken Hypnotricks: the fowl remains motionless
19 Human Corkscrew: subject can't stand straight up
19 Two Women Sampsons: two women easily lift a man
20 Soap is Delicious: with a stooge
21 To the Reader: conclusion