Question

how did the prophetess befool her believers​

Answer 1

Explanation: Intellectual rubbish witten by Bertrand Russell

• The writer Bertrand Russell starts his writing by expressing that human beings are vulnerable to draw up foolish opinion at sometime during their life span.  
• The prophetess declares to her large followers that she had a special power which makes her walk on water.
• The prophetess in order to make her followers believe, proposes to perform the act on a certain morning around 11 AM.
• The faithful followers turned up in large numbers beside the lake.
• She then asks her followers if they believed that she could perform the act of walking on the water. To this the followers acknowledged in one voice only to confirm her special powers.
• The followers believe was enough for her to use it as an excuse and escape from performing the act.
• This is how the prophetess befooled her followers.

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