B Premanand
The tantrik claims that through
his mental power he can cook rice in cold water. He fills rice in a vessel,
pours water, places the lid over it and chants incantations. When he removes
the lid, the rice is cooked and apparently steaming hot.
Experiment: 95
Effect: Cooking rice in cold
water.
Props: Aluminum vessel with lid, rice, quick lime from the kiln,
and water.
Method: Mix beforehand 1:1 of rice and the lime. Show the rice to
test whether it is raw or cooked. Pour the rice into the vessel and fill it with
water two inches above the rice. Then close it with the lid. Chant incantations
for a few minutes. The burnt lime generates heat when it comes into contact with
water and it cooks the rice. Remove the lid and show that the rice is cooked
and hot.
Experiment: 96
The tantrik claims to have powers
to prevent anyone getting burnt. He places a towel on the head of a girl with
plenty of hair. Then he makes a fire on her head, boils water over it and
prepares tea. After the fire is removed, not even one hair is seen to have been
burnt, nor the towel.
Effect: Preparing tea with
fire made on the head
Props: Tea making pan with handle, water, Turkish towel, wick on metal
ring, kerosene, matchbox, tea leaves, milk and sugar.
Method: A Turkish towel is dipped in water and excess water
squeezed out. The towel is folded and kept on the head of the girl. On the
towel fire is made, using the wick ring dipped in kerosene and lit. The pan
with water is held over the fire till the water boils. Then tea leaves, milk
and sugar are added and given to the girl to drink. Remove the fire when the
tea is made and also the towel. The audience will be surprised that nothing has
happened to the head or hair of the girl or to the towel.
Here the principle of boiling
water in a paper cup is used. Until the water in the wet towel evaporates, the
towel, hair or head, will not burn.
Experiment: 97
Effect: Creating fruits which people ask for
The godman shows an empty vessel,
keeps it on a table and asks his devotees one by one to name any fruit he
wants. He puts his hand in the empty vessel and picks up the fruit and gives it
to him.
Props: A table with three sides closed and a door at the back, with
a hole big enough for any fruit to pass with a collapsible lid at the top of
the table. All kinds of fruits stored below the table and an accomplice inside
the table. A vessel with collapsible bottom large enough to pass fruits.
Method: Show the vessel empty and keep it on the hole portion of
the table. The accomplice under the table moves the collapsible portion of the
table and the vessel. Call the audience one by one and ask each as to what
fruit he likes best and put your hand in the vessel while the accomplice would
feed the fruit to you through the hole. Take it out from the vessel and present
it to the person.
Experiment: 98
Effect: Cloth does not burn when lit.
A handkerchief, or a piece of
cloth, is dipped in oil and set alight. Though one can see the fire, the cloth
does not get burnt.
Props: Carbon Disulphide, Carbon Tetrachloride, cloth and matchbox.
Method: Take 1:1 of the chemicals and mix. Dip the cloth in this
solution and light it immediately, holding the fire on the top. Extinguish the
fire when the solution has burnt or evaporated. The cloth does not get burnt.
Similarly currency notes dipped
in the solution can be set on fire without getting burnt. Practise first with
paper (so that you do not lose the currency note) to know at exactly what point
you have to extinguish the fire. Do not bring the lighted match too near the
currency note.
Experiment: 99
Effect: A metal ring hangs by a thread even after the thread is
burnt.
A thread is shown and a ring is
tied to the lower end. Then the thread is lit and it bums, but the ring does
not fall.
Props: Saturated solution of alum or salt, saturated solution of potassium
nitrate, thread, light-weight aluminum ring and painting brush.
1 comments:
About the fruit thing, how do they make out-of-season fruits also appear?
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