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TIL of fake psychic Eva Carrière, who together with lover Juliette would entertain mainly male audiences in 1900s France. During seance she would run around naked and engage sexually with the audience, while Bisson would strip and demand gynecological examination to prove no 'ectoplasm' concealment

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