The Use Of Psychics In Police

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for help. The psychic told them that if they waited three more days that the sheep would turn up, and like the psychic said on the third day the sheep returned home(Wilson 18). During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was
common for people that were victims of a crime to seek the help of a psychic. These psychics known during this age as "cunning men" or " wise women" worked much like many modern day psychics do when trying to solve a case. The cunning man or wise women would often begin with a list of possible suspects that the victim had made or a
piece of evidence left at the crime scene, anything that would help them to be linked to thecrime or victim.
The cunning man or wise women might also help the client who had no leads orplace to start. As stated in the book Blue Sense by Arthur Lyons " Even if they had no ideas of their own to offer their clients, their insights legitimized random behavior by enabling men to make a choice between different courses of ...

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the other two as well (Wilson 22). Aymar went on to help police solve many other crimes until his death in 1694.
During the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century the use of psychics by the police in America was not as frequent as in the past centuries. The reason
for this is because psychics had gotten a bad reputation as being scam artists, even though there were many legitimate psychics during this time period. In other countries such as
England and Scotland psychics were still being used quite frequently, until one case in which the police were made to look like fools by a psychic. This case was one of the most famous murder cases in British ...

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