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The dog was called Max and was a Golden Retriever like the photo on the left-hand side of this text. It was such a nice dog and always came up to you to get smoothed and loved the attention. It’s a shame they don’t live as long as we humans but he lived a happy and healthy life. There is no scientific proof that animals in particular dogs can see supernatural things but I do believe they can smell the dead and can sense dead things as their nose is a powerful thing and is around 10 times stronger then a human nose so trust me a dog would know if you stink or not but I’m sure you are a clean person lol.Â
Light as a feather, stiff as a board is a game played by children at slumber parties. The phrase has also become established in popular culture as a reference to a levitation trick and has been referred to in various media accounts. In performing magic this effect is known as abnormal lift. One participant lies flat on the floor, facing upwards. The others space themselves around that person, each placing one or two fingertips underneath the participant’s limbs. The person closest to the head commonly begins by saying something like “She’s looking ill”, which is repeated several times, and followed by, “She’s looking worse”, which is also repeated several times. The general direction of the call-and-repeat describes how the person is looking worse and worse, followed by saying “She is dying”, and, finally, “She is dead” Variations of the spoken part of the game occur. In a common, modern version, the person being lifted is told a story about their death and asked to imagine it happening to them. This is intended to unsettle the participants and to convince them that something may have changed making it easier to lift the person than before. All versions of the game end with the phrase “light as a feather, stiff as a board” chanted by those standing around the “dead” player as they attempt to lift their companion’s body using only their fingertips. Some versions omit the story entirely and only the “light as a feather…” chant is used. After these repetitions, the person being lifted is described by the group as having become lighter or even entirely weightless.Â
Another variation of the game takes place with one person seated in a chair. Four volunteers agree to stand around the sitter, two on the sitter’s left side and the other two on their right. Each of the four places two fingers under each corner of the chair’s seat and the four together will attempt to lift the chair and sitter, which generally fails. The volunteers will then perform some small ritual, usually involving rubbing their hands together or circling the chair in various direction (counter-clockwise, walking backwards, etc.) After this ritual, the volunteers hold their hands over the sitter’s head to “transfer” energy into the sitter, which will presumably make them weightless. The lifters then retry lifting the sitter the same way as before. Also, it can be that the lifters lift the person sitting in the chair; doing the rest of the ritual as so, but holding at the four main points of the body (under the knees on each side and under the shoulders). The key to the trick is timing: each of the lifters must apply the lifting force at the same moment. When this is done, the weight of the subject is divided equally between each lifter, requiring each person to contribute only 12–20 kilograms (26–44 lb) of lift, to raise a 50–80-kilogram (110–176 lb) person. If the trick is performed without synchronising the lift, it will fail: as participants attempt to lift at slightly different times, they are instead performing a series of lifts by smaller groups, resulting in a much heavier weight per person. This fact may be used as a deliberate form of misdirection from the person explaining the trick, first asking the group to “go ahead, try to lift” to show that it cannot be done, and then asking them to try again on the count of three, where it succeeds.
The oldest known account of levitation play comes from the diary of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a British naval administrator. Pepys’s account of levitation play comes from a conversation with a friend of his, Mr Brisband, who claimed to have seen four little girls playing light as a feather, stiff as a board in Bordeaux, France. Pepys’s account of Mr. Brisband’s experience reads:
He saw four little girls, very young ones, all kneeling, each of them, upon one knee; and one began the first line, whispering in the ear of the next, and the second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and she to the first. Then the first begun the second line, and so round quite through, and putting each one finger only to a boy that lay flat upon his back on the ground as if he was dead; at the end of the words, they did with their four fingers raise this boy high as they could reach, and he [Mr. Brisband] being there, and wondering at it, as also being afeared to see it, for they would have had him to have bore a part in saying the words, in the roome of one of the little girles that were so young that they could hardly make her learn to repeat the words, did, for fear, there might be some sleight used in it by the boy, or that the boy might be light, call the cook of the house, a very lusty fellow, as Sir G. Carteret’s cook, who is very big, and they did raise him in just the same manner.
