Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance, the faculty, attributed to persons in the mesmeric state, of seeing objects not present to the bodily senses, whereby the clairvoyant is enabled to describe events passing at a distance. For the scientific estimate of such claims, see ANIMAL MAGNETISM. The simple clairvoyance of the professional entertainer is easily effected with the assistance of a code of signals and a good memory; generally the subject is blindfolded on the stage, while a confederate passing among the audience holds up the objects offered to him, and requires them to be named.