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He was the son of a weaver.[6] He became a medium at the age of fifteen. It was alleged he could materialize spirits and perform levitation and psychokinesis of objects. Guzyk was endorsed by the psychical researcher Gustav Geley who attended his s\u00e9ances.[1]Investigations[edit]Skeptical investigator Paul Heuz\u00e9 and a professional illusionist known as Professor Dicksonn suspected that Guzyk was fraudulent and that Geley and other psychical researchers had been duped by trickery.[1] In November 1923, Heuz\u00e9 organized five scientists, including French physicist Paul Langevin to observe Guzyk during a series of s\u00e9ances at Sorbonne. Objects were moved but only in close reach of the medium. They committee concluded that he had freed one of his legs to perform the phenomena. When tighter controls were introduced, nothing happened.[7] Their report published in the L’Ann\u00e9e Psychologique, stated that fraud was “complete and without reserve”.[8]Guzyk was said to have utilized his elbows and legs to move objects around the room and touch the sitters. He was caught cheating by the psychical researcher Harry Price. According to Price the “man was clever, especially with his feet, which were almost as useful to him as his hands in producing phenomena.”[3] Price also noted that Guzyk impersonated a “spirit” animal during a s\u00e9ance by placing his hand in a stocking to stimulate the illusion of a snapping jaw.[4]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Psychologist Max Dessoir wrote that the trick of Guzyk was to use his “foot for psychic touches and sounds”.[5] He was investigated many times and his mediumship was detected in fraud.[9] At a s\u00e9ance in Krak\u00f3w in December 1924 a photograph showed him moving a curtain with his hand. Walter Franklin Prince who attended s\u00e9ances with Guzyk came to the conclusion he had no paranormal ability.[10] The psychical researcher Paul Tabori has written that it was established beyond doubt that Guzyk had cheated at his s\u00e9ances.[4]References[edit]^ a b c Brower, M. Brady. (2010). Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France. University of Illinois Press. pp. 133-135. ISBN\u00a0978-0252077517^ Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 77. ISBN\u00a0978-0786427703^ a b Price, Harry. (1942). Search for Truth: My Life for Psychical Research. Collins p. 206^ a b c Tabori, Paul. (1974). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Sphere Books. pp. 118-119. ISBN\u00a00-7221-8326-7^ a b Spence, Lewis. (2003). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Kessinger Publishing. p. 399. ISBN\u00a0978-0766128156^ Guiley, Rosemary. (1994). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. Guinness Publishing. p. 152. ISBN\u00a0978-0851127484^ Lachapelle, Sofie. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 131. ISBN\u00a0978-1421400136^ Langevin, P; Rabaud, E; Laugier, H; Marcelin, A; Meyerson, I. (1924). Rapport au sujet des ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes produits par le M\u00e9dium J. Guzik. L’Ann\u00e9e Psychologique 24: 664-672.^ Cavendish, Richard. (1971). Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural. Volume 6. Purnell. p. 2277. ISBN\u00a0978-0863070419^ Berger, Arthur. (1988). Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1987. McFarland & Company. p. 95. ISBN\u00a0978-0899503455Further reading[edit]Wikimedia ErrorOur servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem.Please try again in a few\u00a0minutes.See the error message at the bottom of this page for more\u00a0information.      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