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Psycho-Graphology: A Study of Rafael Schermann
"When in the morning the postman hands you a letter, the first thing you probably do is to examine the address. You try to remember whether you have seen the handwriting before." And so begins Psycho-graphology: A Study Of Rafael Schermann.
138 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1924
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March 12, 2020
the vienna wizard of graphology. 'he is the most astounding phenomenon of our time.(1920s)
he is not a handwriting expert in the accepted sense of the term. he is not scientific, he has no system. but a persons handwriting seems to fire him with an uncanny, supernatural second sight. he seems to be able to search out with deadly precision not only the character of the person whose writing he may see, but also their unexpressed desires and intensions which lie deep in their minds.'
depending on who you ask, rafael schermann was either a psychic whose gift was to be able to look at handwriting and know everything about the writer. and who out of a desire to serve mankind chose to devote his supernatural talent to helping the police solve crimes... or he was a handwriting expert in vienna who in the first quarter of the twentieth century became famous for some highly publicized forgery cases he helped solve. and whose reputation as a supernatural crime fighter arose from the tendency of the masses to trust more in the conclusions of a supernatural authority than a scientific one.
the impression being that if you commited a crime in vienna and your handwriting was involved, there would be no way to hide from 'the man with x-ray eyes.' and practically, it meant that once schermann pinned you as the culprit, whether you had done it or not, in the minds of the police and the public, you were guilty.
he is not a handwriting expert in the accepted sense of the term. he is not scientific, he has no system. but a persons handwriting seems to fire him with an uncanny, supernatural second sight. he seems to be able to search out with deadly precision not only the character of the person whose writing he may see, but also their unexpressed desires and intensions which lie deep in their minds.'
depending on who you ask, rafael schermann was either a psychic whose gift was to be able to look at handwriting and know everything about the writer. and who out of a desire to serve mankind chose to devote his supernatural talent to helping the police solve crimes... or he was a handwriting expert in vienna who in the first quarter of the twentieth century became famous for some highly publicized forgery cases he helped solve. and whose reputation as a supernatural crime fighter arose from the tendency of the masses to trust more in the conclusions of a supernatural authority than a scientific one.
the impression being that if you commited a crime in vienna and your handwriting was involved, there would be no way to hide from 'the man with x-ray eyes.' and practically, it meant that once schermann pinned you as the culprit, whether you had done it or not, in the minds of the police and the public, you were guilty.
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