Hypnotist

James Braid

Medicine

1795–1860

"...a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature."

🇺🇸Lawrence M. Schoen

Psychology

b. 1959

"I mean, sure, like all prophecy the wording is vague."

🇬🇧Derren Brown

Psychology

b. 1971

"can be poorly presented and surrounded by naffness, and often amounts to little more than childish attempts to fool you. I guess it’s largely to escape those associations that I’ve gone the route I have."