Ivan Seeking
Aug18-04, 03:49 PM
Peter Lamont is an award-winning magician, pseudo-psychic, historian, parapsychologist, and Arts and Humanities Research Board research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
A former president of the Edinburgh Magic Circle, Dr Lamont's doctoral thesis, Magic and Miracles in Victorian Britain, a study of Victorian views about séance in relation to contemporary views about similar feats, such as conjuring tricks, Biblical miracles, and Indian juggling, won him the Jeremy Dalziel prize in British history.
His second book, The Rise and Fall of the Indian Rope Trick, unravels the mystery of the legendary Indian illusion. In shattering some of the strongly believed myths associated with it, Dr Lamont says the legend owes its origin not to a performance, not to India, not to a magician, not even to a rope... but to a hoax article published by the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1895! [continued]
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/17inter.htm
A former president of the Edinburgh Magic Circle, Dr Lamont's doctoral thesis, Magic and Miracles in Victorian Britain, a study of Victorian views about séance in relation to contemporary views about similar feats, such as conjuring tricks, Biblical miracles, and Indian juggling, won him the Jeremy Dalziel prize in British history.
His second book, The Rise and Fall of the Indian Rope Trick, unravels the mystery of the legendary Indian illusion. In shattering some of the strongly believed myths associated with it, Dr Lamont says the legend owes its origin not to a performance, not to India, not to a magician, not even to a rope... but to a hoax article published by the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1895! [continued]
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/17inter.htm