where did mentalism come from.......

silvestri · **Joined:** 12 Jan 2004 **Posts:** 227 **Location:** jerzee

mentalism is not a real word u know it only exists in the magic business but mentalist or mentalist(S) is real

MasterJ · **Joined:** 27 Jan 2003 **Posts:** 215

ism is a root for the practice of.

Robert_V_Frazier · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:34 pm

It is a real word, and it is in the dictionary:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mentalism

Robert V Frazier

BeMan · **Joined:** 05 Apr 2003 **Posts:** 1865

Why would you think it's not? If it wasnt what would you a say a mentalist was doing? Mentalness?

-- B.M.

lastnitesfun · **Joined:** 06 Jan 2003 **Posts:** 25

Mentalism as a philosophy has been a word for a long time. Mentalism as applied to this branch of magic, I believe, started with Dunninger.