Pascal Forthuny

Pascal Forthuny

Pascal Forthuny (1872–1962) was a French art critic, clairvoyant medium and novelist.^[1][2]

He was born as Georges Léopold Cochet in Paris^[3] in 1872. Forthuny developed his alleged paranormal abilities of automatic writing, clairvoyance and psychometry in the 1920s after his son died in a plane crash.^[4][5]

He was tested by psychical researchers such as Eugéne Osty and Charles Richet and managed to convince them he had genuine paranormal powers.^[1][6] However, other researchers have suspected that Forthuny was fraudulent and had utilized methods of hot reading.^[7]

References

1. Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-7864-2770-3
2. Vigato, Jean-Claude. (1994). L'architecture régionaliste: France, 1890-1950. Norma. p. 30. ISBN 978-2909283111
3. Georges Léopold Cochet, Léonore
4. Wolman, Benjamin B. (1977). Handbook of Parapsychology. McFarland. p. 14. ISBN 978-0442295769
5. Xiong, Jesse Hong. (2010). The Outline of Parapsychology (Rev. ed.). Lanham: University Press of America. p. 126. ISBN 978-0761840435
6. Mauskopf, Seymour H; McVaugh, Michael Rogers. (1980). The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0801823312
7. Soal, Samuel. (1935). Spiritualism. In Julian Franklyn. A Survey of the Occult. Arthur Baker Ltd.