The act of fishing for information, either from a gullible
paying customer or from an audience who have just been told to be "open-minded", in which any positive feedback is followed
deftly as though coming in "on the
astral".
Cold reading:
Hello, I'm getting something ... there is someone who has recently died ... yes, someone has, hasn't they? ... a man, no I didn't think so, either, a woman then, an old woman ... no,
dreadful isn't it? ... I'm thinking cancer, no?... a
car crash ... yes, and it was tragic, and she was before her time too, would I be correct in saying this? ...