Countess d’Sangre’s Stage Performance

Felicia alternates hypnosis and illusions in her act. Her limited hypnotic skit repetroire tends towards the erotic and exotic, while the illusions are designed to demonstrate a legendary aspect of a vampire’s powers.

To begin, the volunteers are told that they are first cold, then hot: they are told to huddle together to warm themselves, then to loosen their clothing. (Felicia will stop any volunteer just before they begin to remove too much clothing.) They are then told to watch a movie: first a funny cartoon, then a scary monster movie.

For her first illusion, Felicia selects two of the volunteers, a man and a woman, preferably, and awakens them. Taking up a small, ornate box and some lengths of silk, she will step into the box and slip the ribbons around her body and through openings in the box. She will have the volunteers hold the ends of the silks tightly. She will ask them repeatedly to do so, then step out of the box, leaving the silks still tightly clutched in her volunteers’ hands.

Her two volunteers will be the subjects for her next hypnotism segment. Passing her hands across their eyes, she will entrance them, then instruct them that when they open their eyes, they will be looking into a mirror, and the person they see before them is their reflection. If they are not opposite sexes, Felicia will suggest that they have been transformed into the opposite sex. If one responds well to this scenario, they will be told to walk along the front of the stage, checking out the audience. Felicia will ask them which of the audience is the most attractive to them. The volunteer will be returned to full consciousness, then used for the next trick.

For her next illusion, Felicia will produce a glittering mirrored ball that will float around at her command, first from behind a black satin cloth, then before her, in full view of the audience. It will eventually be set spinning before the volunteer’s eyes; as the light reflecting from it flickers in their eyes, they will be hypnotized and sent back to their seat on stage.