On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions: With an Account of Mesmerism |
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afterwards Agricultural ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON Alexis apparition appears Arnod Atlas attention body Boppard catalepsy clairvoyante clock-rotation copper disc death death-trance described direction divining rod dream Edition EDWARD BULWER LYTTON effects entranced person excited exoneural experiments eyes facts Fcap finger Foolscap 8vo force forms of trance ghost half an inch hand Hold the odometer impressions influence instance JOHN GALT lady letter light longitudinal Lord Ducie magnet manifested ment mental mesmeriser mesmerism mind motion moved nature nervous system northward pole object observed obtained Octavo od-subject Odometer held operator ordinary oscillations passes patient Petetin phenomena phrenology present produced proximad realised Reichenbach remarkable ring rotatory SAMUEL WARREN scene Scotland seems seer-gift sensations sensorial illusions Sir Thomas Hardy sleep somnambulism superstition supposed thought thumb tion told trance trance-coma trance-sleep transverse truth Vampyr volume waking Weilbach young zinc disc
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