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Ventriloquism


 

Ventriloquism is an act of deception in which a person (ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. The Greeks called this gastromancy. Linguists claim that the technique of making sounds while giving away no clues about actually talking must have been discovered thousands of years ago and was aptly used by early chieftains and tribesmen, who acted as mediums between men and supernatural forces. Religions based on divine communications also rely on this skill which was originally performed from within a template, a circle drawn at sufficient distance from the audience so that the trick would be difficult to discover.

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