Magicians and mediums

Since its inception in 1848, spiritism has been essentially a business caraduras mounted to raise money for the pain caused by the loss of a loved one. Magi of the stature of Houdini, Maskelyne, Christopher Dunnigan or Rinn, parle devoted their lives to unmask fake mediums.

In 70 years the Israeli Uri Geller became famous
thanks to a "power" special, as was his friend and biographer A. Puharich, you leave an extraterrestrial spacecraft in orbit: twice spoons with the mind. As Superman, Geli has its own kriptonita: loses his powers when a magician is present. This happened on the agenda of Johnny Carson Tonight Show, which prevented him from accessing the spoons before the interview.

It is so easy to acquire these powers even managed to fool British children physical and J. Taylor and J. Until. They were psychologists B. R. Pamplin and H. Coliins who, in a letter published in the journal Nature in 1975, showed that they did through the "paranormal" technical distractions to take advantage of the guards to bend spoons pressure against tables and chairs.

Of course, everything is much easier if you have access to the spoons before the function. Just pick one and bending repeatedly by the thinner until about to let it break.
With a little practice can be reached at creating the illusion that melts between the fingers.