SFX: A bit of Victorian harpsichord, perhaps, atmospheric and intentionally stagy. 

CHRISTIAN CAGIGAL:  

On the left-hand side, there’s this beautiful curtain, or drape, done in the thin lines of a woodcut style. It feels like I’m looking into a room. 

[Coming in over the top of his previous comment] 

CAGIGAL:  

My name is Christian Cagigal. I am a magician, storyteller. And I’ve spent my entire life studying illusion, and the history of magic in all of its forms.  

I’m seeing what looks like a magician. He’s got one hand up in the air with a wand; one hand down low. He’s making this spirit appear. Maybe a woman, a cloaked figure. The way the spirit is drawn, it’s very reminiscent of the old 1700 and 1800s magic lantern shows, where you would cut out silhouettes of ghosts and put them in front of a light, the magic lantern. And you would make these shadow plays up on the wall.  

What I also see is that this magician has drawn out a circle of protection that’s he’s standing in with his items. That circle of protection is what you would draw out when you’re trying to contact the spirits. There’s a book. There’s a skull. There’s two candles. There’s a chalice. 

This is like all the tropes and the ideas of wizards, and alchemy, and the spiritualist movement. He’s harkening back to an era when magic, and art, and science, and religion were still wrapped up together.  

It’s everything from a séance to watching the ghosts dance in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.  

What I’m seeing here is someone who’s taking canvas, and wood, and drawings to create this illusion that transports me into another realm. That is inherently a magician. This is inherently a magic trick, and-and a sacred magic trick.  

So well done, Sigmar, well done. You have fooled a magician.