It may surprise some of my students to learn that some of this class of teachers are instructing their pupils to practice methods of self-hypnosis by gazing steadily at a bright object until they fall unconscious; or by gazing "cross eyed" at the tip of the nose, or at an object held between the two eyebrows.

The silence had worked a sort of hypnosis in her.

But no sooner was the savagery bornborn, she felt, of the very hypnosis of that carved facethan she cast it out shudderingly in the realization that she had wished the death of a fellow human being!

At times the gleam of the brasswork would exercise the same hypnosis over his senses as the scintillation of the jewelry counters of the store, and he would rub his hands crisply together.

Prather concluded, in a sort of hypnosis with his own picture.