Re: Bending a spoon, by MH

Geller’s success can be attributed to a combination of presentation and psychology, and a boldness which enables him to fool his audience with the simplest of magic tricks. His psychic metal bending, the starting of watches, his ESP performances and teleportations, have all been exposed in detail for what they were — conjuring tricks, cheating and illusions.

Further evidence that Geller falsely claimed to possess psychic powers came from his former manager Yasha Katz, who confessed on Italian TV to helping Geller cheat after being taught a gesture code using certain hand signals and a cigarette, and Hannah Shtrang revealed Geller’s methods to the press in Israel. Shipi Shtrang was well known as Geller’s assistant and his confederate right from the start, and who, together with Katz, used to collect information and details about people attending Geller’s performances and then signal it, or pass it on in other ways to Geller, a procedure common to many an entertainer in the mentalism business.