Bluff your way in the occult [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONFew things are better suited to the art of bluffing than the occult sciences. For starters, 90 percent of the "experts" on the subject are bluffers, too. The other 10 percent are loony-tunes, and you're better off avoiding them. Knowing that an "expert" is bluffing can help you enormously, but it's wise not to push things too far. There's an outside chance that he or she could turn you into a toad.This doesn't mean that you can fake being an expert on the occult entirely, although there's no other area where you can get by on fewer facts as long as you have a quick mind and a fertile imagination. Remember, however, that eventually you'll come up against a master bluffer who may recognize that you're winging it and really hand you your head. Figuratively speaking, of course.Nevertheless, once you've mastered a few techniques and learned certain key words, you can pass yourself off as a high-ranking occultist so successfully that even skeptics who think you're bluffing won't push their luck-because you might turn them into toads.If push comes to shove, you can always cover your ignorance by claiming that you can't disclose more information because of binding vows that you took to an unnamed but extremely powerful cult. You can also say that you can't pass on information to mere mortals. This is equivalent to the old "Well, to tell you the