Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-10-16
Sweating BIood--CIairvoyance.

A remarkable case of something is said to have
been exhibited for time past, in the person of
SUZAN E. PEARSON young woman living with Mr..
Hiram Westfall, in this town. She has been afflicted
several times with spasms, in which she suf-
fers great PAIN and on two three occasions sweat
blood profusey over the stomach, and from the fore
head. This sweating of blood she prophesied before
hand, and on each OCCASION 1t took place at the pre-
else time predicted, in the presence of respectable
persons, whose testimony we are bound to believe 1t
is also said that she has frequently, when setting in
closed room, related accurately what some members
of the family were doing in other apartments of the
house or premises That she will tell the time of
day to a minute by time piece in another room, out
of her sight-and that frequently she has been heard
reading the Bible correctly and fluently in her dark
ROOM She says she read end tell the time of day
perfectly we'll in the dark, it is all plain to her
sight. Many of her sayings and dongs are strange
beyond the common experience of human actions.
We give them as we have heard them from respecta-
bic Witnesses Wabash Courier.
The occurrences related above, part of them,
happened while one of the Editors of the State Senti-
nel was on recent visit to Terre Haute, and he can
testify that the Courier falls short in its relations of
the preternatural phenomena, as testified to by the
witnesses. The young woman in the first place had
predicted as stated by the respectable family in which
she resides that size should be taken sick certain
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should for a certain length of time, sweat blood
and finally that she should recover a certain day,
some two weeks from the first attack of illness,
o'clock. All these events said to have happened
as the subject predicted. There were also various
other similar strange incidents, which we shall not
specify, as have been promised full account from
the pen of capable gentleman, who can testify to
much from his own personal knowledge How much
of these phenomena to be attributed to the influence
of the Imagination over the subject herself and how
much the witnesses of the phenomena may have been
misled by dntcpdiOnS of them, is more than we can
pretend to decide. But if we allow as much weight
to the testimony of the latter, should to their
testimony in relation to ordinary occurrences then the
case is remarkable than that of the Seeress of
Prevorst" an account Of which was recently publish
ed by the Harpers translated from the German and
is equal if not superior to the alleged revelations of
Emmanuel Swedenborg, which were made the basis
of new religious ideas.
What is not the least remarkable circumstance in
this case that there apparently MeSmerSm in it.
In fact it is said that experiments to magnetse Miss
Pearson have been made in vain. Neither does she
appear to have been in the sleep-wakng state, as
related of the ''Seeress of Prevorst" But while
making her predictions, well as at all other times
she is apparently in ordinary condition of mind.
We hope soon to have full account of this case
from the gentleman alluded to above.