The following text is a somewhat revised version of a thesis composed as a required part of the MA-course Occult Trajectories II: Magic in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America , offered during February-May 2004 at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam . Alexandra Nagel xnagel@yahoo.com Eindhoven , 16 October 2004 This study researches a handful of ‘Messing anecdotes’ from two perspectives Wolf Messing (1899-1974) was a Polish Jew and in particular circles a quite well known ‘psychic stage performer’, to whose name nowadays are attached a number of persistent stories
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Wolf Messing, an enigmatic ‘psychic entertainer’ whom Sathya Sai Baba claims to have encountered