Leg Lengthening

darren

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This is the first time I've heard the term.

However, in a discussion I had recently with a faith-healing fan, she did mention that her absolute belief in it was caused by seeing a person's leg "grow" right before her eyes at a faith healing event. I had no response, because I was unfamiliar with the stunt.

Can someone add more information regarding this so I can be more informed on this particular aspect of trickery?
 
I guess the saying "break a leg" is inappropriate when you want to wish luck to a faith-healer when he's going on stage to do this stunt.
 
darren said:
This is the first time I've heard the term.

However, in a discussion I had recently with a faith-healing fan, she did mention that her absolute belief in it was caused by seeing a person's leg "grow" right before her eyes at a faith healing event. I had no response, because I was unfamiliar with the stunt.

Can someone add more information regarding this so I can be more informed on this particular aspect of trickery?
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Read "The Faith Healers" by James Randi. I believe the technique is described there "at length."
 
darren said:
This is the first time I've heard the term.

However, in a discussion I had recently with a faith-healing fan, she did mention that her absolute belief in it was caused by seeing a person's leg "grow" right before her eyes at a faith healing event. I had no response, because I was unfamiliar with the stunt.

Can someone add more information regarding this so I can be more informed on this particular aspect of trickery?
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Yes, I have seen it. The local public access station where I used to live used to regularly have a faith healers on. Basically, the persons sits and the healer has the persons legs outstretched but shifted just a little off to the side so that one leg appears longer than the other. Then they just bring them back straight in front of the sitter and the shorter leg "grows" to match the other.

What always struck me was how there was this unknown epidemic of people with one foreshortened leg. "Funny, I didn't know one leg was shorter than the other!" What really sickens me is that the people doing this present themselves as and probably consider themselves to be "Godly". I hate the bastards. Believers hate skeptics, but that is only because they are too stupid to even know who their friends are. It sure ain't the faith healers.
 
Could this be where the Chiros picked it up?

I presume faith healers have been doing it longer than chiropractics has been around.
 
Basically, you put your right foot in, and your left foot out, and then your left foot gets pushed all about.

(you do the hokey pokey and...)
 
There is a scene in the (unforunately mostly lost) Lon Chaney movie The Miracle Man where he pretends to be crippled, part of which involves having a shortened and bent leg, and is 'healed' by a local faith healer.

Although the movie itself has been lost this scene has been saved and can be seen in the fantastic documentary on his life, Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces where they describe how he carried out the gag.

Great documentary, catch it if you're a Lon Chaney fan.

Eddie
 
Re: Re: Leg Lengthening

billydkid said:
Basically, the persons sits and the healer has the persons legs outstretched but shifted just a little off to the side so that one leg appears longer than the other. Then they just bring them back straight in front of the sitter and the shorter leg "grows" to match the other.
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Why do that when there is an easier method that is harder to pick? It just reqires a bit of flexibility in the pelvic area. ;)

Tommy.
(Keep on dancing, you'll get there)
 
If one of your legs were lengthened, even by a fraction of an inch, do you think you could stand up and walk without stumbling? Even if one leg were shorter than the other, you'd have spent a lifetime learning to walk with your legs just the way they are. If one leg was truely lengthened, it would take a lot of practice before you could walk without stumbling...
 
thanks all

I ordered Randi's book. And that, patnray, is a good point. Its a nice detail that would make sense.

Of course, if they were truly healed by God, he could certainly keep them from stumbling too, no? See? Silly logic user.
 
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