THOUGHT READING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 8

THOUGHT READING

EGYPTIAN FAKIRS AMAZING FEATS. Dr Tahra Bey,, an Egyptian fakir, astounded a London audience, which included leading doctors and distinguished men and women, by his thought-reading and by his many amazing feats. Assistants placed him upon . two trestles, put a 2001 b stone on his chest, anr smashed it with a road breakers’ hammer.

The doctor, declaring that pain was only a relief, drove lOin pins through the loose flesh of his arms and chest. “I am able to control the bleeding at will; there is no pain, no wound is left,” he said. On the trestles now was placed a large board, through which, points uppermost, were hammered Bin nails. He then lay down backward on the bed of nails. An assistant stood on him and the doctor rose again without showing any trace. Members of the audience went to the platform and satisfied themselves that the nails were sharp and genuine. Ho followed this by answering telepathic questions. He told one woman she was a writer who wanted a book published. He said it would be a moral success, but not financial. A young woman at the the back of the audience was told that she was a nurse by profession, and that her thoughts were centred on an appointment to another hospital. For the finale, Dr Tahra Bey entered a trance and was placed in a coffin after his mouth, nose and ears had been stuffed with cotton wool. Sand was then shovelled over his face and body and the coffin closed and covered with sand. After 10 minutes it was opened and raised to show the doctor rigid. He came to life again and left the stage immediately. . A .•