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Stuart Cumberland

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Stuart Cumberland

From People I Have Read (1905)
BornCharles Garner
1857
Died1922
CategoriesBooks by Stuart Cumberland

Stuart Cumberland (1857-1922), born Charles Garner, astonished Europe with his performances in mindreading. He drew fame with miracles like finding hidden objects through supposed psychic power.

Biography

The art of "Contact Mind Reading" was known for a time as Cumberlandism.

Cumberland was a skilled writer and wrote several books on his life in mentalism and the techniques of phony mediums and psychics.

He also published a souvenir newspaper called Cumberland News.

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