He called, somewhat peremptorily as I thought, to the man who was still aiming his weapon at my head, then waived back those behind him, and presently advanced towards me, looking me straight in the eyes with a steadiness and intensity of gaze far exceeding, both in expressiveness and in effect, the most fixed stare of the most successful mesmerists I have known.

'II beg your pardon, I did not speak,' stammered Lancelot, abashed at a pair of eyes which could have looked down the boldest mesmerist in three seconds.

But under their hypnotic spell, the minds of many seem to suffer an obsession, and they are caught in the swirl of foolish feeling, like a grocer's clerk in the hands of a mesmerist.

but that this girl, who pretends to pay no attention to us, might be aaone of those clever, professional mesmerists who force you to follow 'em, and get you into their power, and exhibit you, and make you eat raw potatoes and tallow candles and tacks before an audience.

Sorcerer N. sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist^, theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; hoodoo, voodoo; fairy &c 980; lamia^, hag. warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage^; cunning man, medicine man; Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica^; medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller; mesmerist; deus ex machina [Lat.]; soothsayer &c 513.

Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the active and adroit decide their challenges in the sports of the body; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation.

In this case no doubt the Ojah was a mesmerist.

The mesmerist and the electro-biologist will fail upon an average with nine patients out of tenso may the evil spirit.

Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the active and adroit decide their challenges in the sports of the body; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation.

I beg my reader to observe how cleverly Mr. Rogers slanders me in the quotation already made, from p. 5, by insinuating, first, that it is my doctrine, "that man is most likely born for a dog's life, and there an end;" next, that I have taken under my patronage the propositions, that "the miracles of Christ might be real, because Christ was a clairvoyant and mesmerist, and that God is not a Person but a Personality."

I remembered how once when the mesmerist gave out that they were at a horserace, and his subjects all got astride of their chairs, and galloped up and down the hall like a lot of little boys on laths.

As pioneers these writers answer to the early mesmerists and magnetists, Puységur, Amoretti, Ritter, Elliotson, Mayo, Gregory, in the history of Psychical Research.

That condition in which the seer acquires information, not otherwise accessible, about events remote in space, is what the mesmerists of the mid-century called 'travelling clairvoyance.' If such an experience be in rerum natura, it will not, of course, justify the savage's theory that the soul is a separable entity, capable of voyaging, and also capable of existing after the death of the body.

'Miss X' has traced it among early Christians, in early Councils, in episcopal condemnations of specularii, and so to Dr. Dee, under James VI.; Aubrey; the Regent d'Orléans in St. Simon's Memoirs; the modern mesmerists (Gregory, Mayo) and the mid-Victorian spiritualists, who, as usual, explained the phenomena, in their prehistoric way, by 'spirits.'