She was well known for running around the séance room naked indulging in sexual activities with her audience. Ĭarrière has been described as "perverse and neurotic". In the Schrenck-Notzing psychic sessions with Carrière, the scientific controls were scarce and there was evidence that she had freed her hands in the séance room.
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Psychiatrist Mathilde Ludendorff wrote that the experiments of Schrenck-Notzing were unscientific and that he had been duped by tricks of Carrière. Another physician-psychical researcher, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, investigated Carrière and believed the ectoplasm she produced was genuine. Physician-psychical researcher Gustav Geley investigated Carrière and wrote she was a genuine psychic, but never-published photographs were discovered after Geley's death which revealed fraudulent activity from the psychic's companion, Juliette Bisson, such as wires seen running from Carrière's head supporting fake ectoplasm.
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He was never convinced by Carrière and likened her performance to a magician's trick, the Hindu needle trick. Another famous psychic investigator of the time, Harry Houdini, observed one of her séances and asserted that they were fraudulent. He believed her performances were genuine and that she was not engaged in any deception. Investigations Ĭarrière's psychic performances were investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery series. She had a sexual relationship with a woman 25 years her elder, Juliette Bisson (1861–1956), with whom she performed during her seances. In 1909, Béraud changed her name to Eva Carrière (Eva C) to hide the fraud of her past and began a new career as a psychic. Béraud also admitted to being involved with the hoax. Areski wrote that he made his appearance into the room by a trapdoor. Ī newspaper article in 1906 revealed that an Arab coachman known as Areski, who had previously worked at the villa, had been hired to play the part of Bien Boa and that the entire thing was a hoax. A photograph revealed Boa to be a man dressed up in a cloak, helmet and beard. In other sittings Charles Richet reported that Boa was breathing, had moved around the room and had touched him. However, photographs taken of Boa looked like the figure was made from a large cardboard cutout. In these séances she claimed to materialize a spirit called Bien Boa, a 300-year-old Brahmin Hindu.
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In 1905, she held a series of séances at Villa Carmen and sitters were invited. She claimed she developed her psychic ability after the death of her fiancé. Béraud lived with General Elie Noël and his wife at Villa Carmen in Algiers. She became engaged to Maurice Noël, a soldier who died in the Congo from tropical disease in 1904 before the marriage could take place. French medium Censored photo of Carrière nude in a séance with a cardboard cut-out figure of King Ferdinand of BulgariaĮva Carrière (born Marthe Béraud 1886 in France, died 1943), also known as Eva C, was a fraudulent materialization medium in the early 20th century known for making fake ectoplasm from chewed paper and cut-out faces from magazines and newspapers.īéraud was born 1886 in France, the daughter of a French officer.