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Stanley LeFevre Krebs (January 14, 1864 – September 26, 1935〔(Stanley LeFevre Krebs (1864-1935) )〕) was an American psychologist and salesmanship lecturer. He married the actress Marjorie Main on November 2, 1921.〔Michelle Vogel. (2011). ''Marjorie Main: The Life And Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle"''. McFarland. p. 9. ISBN 978-0786464432〕 He was the president of the American Institute of Mercantile Art, Philadelphia, where he worked as a salesmanship lecturer.〔Kansas Bankers Association. (1916). ''Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Kansas Bankers Association''. p. 14.〕 Throughout his career, he exposed a number of fraud mediums. He employed a secret mirror and caught the medium Henry Slade swapping slates and hiding them in the back of his chair.〔Gordon Stein. (1996). ''The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal''. Prometheus Books. p. 705. ISBN 978-1573920216〕 Krebs exposed the Bangs Sisters by using a secret mirror under the table, which caught them tampering with a sealed envelope. The sisters during the séance would open the envelope and write in it a reply which they would pretend a spirit had written.〔Joe Nickell. (2001). ''Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal''. The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 267–268. ISBN 978-0813122106〕 He also wrote the book ''Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino'' (1910), which documented the tricks of the medium Eusapia Palladino. His daughter was Anna Belle Columba Krebs Culverwell, an artist who developed the cartoon "Skuddabud". She wrote and illustrated "The Moon is Inhabited". He died from cancer on September 27, 1935, in New York City.〔Axel Nissen. (2011). ''Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Faces from Hollywood from the Thirties to the Fifties''. McFarland. p. 111. ISBN 978-0786461103〕 ==Publications== *''The Law of Suggestion'' (1906) reprinted as ''The Fundamental Principles of Hypnosis'' (1957) *''Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino'' (1910) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stanley LeFevre Krebs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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