Ventriloquism is a stage act in which a person
changes his or her voice(commonly called in English the ability to "throw" one's voice) so that it appears that the voice is coming
from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy." The earliest record of ventriloquism was at the Greek temple in Delphi in the 6th century B.C. Greek oracles spoke for
Apollo through his priestess Pythia. Pythia would stand as if in a
trance, mouth still, as words came
from the sky or out of a sacred stone--a relatively easy deception for a
ventriloquist. The Greeks called it "gastromancy," referring to the
use of the diaphram to project a voice without moving the lips.
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| Erich von Stroheim playing a ventriloquist in 'The Great Gabbo' - LINK |
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| Unidentified man with his ventriloquist dummy. Photograph taken circa 1870, by William James Harding. - LINK |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Vernon "and family. From witch on Flickr |
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| Pioneering African-American ventriloquist Walter J. Fredericks and his dummy, "Silent Cal." - LINK |
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| Ventriloquist with Two Dummies. - LINK |
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| Henry Rox with Matt - LINK |
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