St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-16
Animal Magnetism.
BE SURE PEOPLE ARE DEAD BEFORE
YOU BURY THEM.



Tread in your issue of the 22d an
article which gave an account of a
singular occurrence in Kerry Patch, OF
this city, where a corpse, coffin and
m0uners were all precipitated into the
cellar: Allow me to give you an account
OF a girl that died i'll my house during q
fearful cholera season. The father and
his daughter, eighteen years of age,
came to this city to receive some money
at the Courthouse. They slept on the
third floor of my house. Their name
was Wighten. At o'clock in the
morning the young lady was taken with
the cholera in its worst form. My
family rubbed and poulticed her with
mustard, sent for a doctor, but all to no
purpose. At O'Clock i'll the morning
on the bed, opening mp the windows.
| closed the door; myself and the
balance went down to take some re-
freshments, being tired aud exhausted.
After washing and taking our breakfast,
three Of us went mp stairs to see II all
was right, and measure her for the coffin.
We were going up the first flight OF
stairs, when one of us looked up, and,
TO our astonishment and horror, there
the girl lay on the stairs, the door OF
her room wide open. We stood aghast
for moment, and called her name.
She never moved. We went to her,
picked her up, and lald her out the
second time, then watched her till her
coffin came. She wasput in and screwed
down. | have IL soft place in my head
some call it spiritIlalism. | have had
twenty years. experience with it in all
its present known manifestations. AL
low me to give you my theory OF the
movements of this girl. When person
is dying, tire magnetism which holds
the spirit to the body becomes weaker
and weaker as the organs OF the body
can not work. Less and less of this vital
element is made. TO prove this asser-
ton, let ii person full OF animal magne-
tism take the hand OF Il dying person,
and you will often see him Vlslbly I'M
of him and the maSnetlZeE Will feel
weak and sick (Or, as Christ said: :"
feel that virtue has gone from me.D
Never crowd around dying. person,
especially child. The aura from all
yol,r bodies will help to supply the dying
Dartv. and prolong the suffering. Never
let an old person sleep with a child.
Eight cases out Of ten they Will draw
the vital element from, the child it will
become weak, exhausted and dark under
the eyes Many married persons ac-
tually die because one Is actually y rouhlhS
the other. Some give OF their magnc-
tism freely, others draw it from every
body they come in contact Wltl-ilVlns
vampires feeding on the vitality OF their
fellow man. EVerytlling III existence
has magnetism belonging to it, iron,
copper, minerals. vegetables, ANIMALS.
Look at the strong, burly butcher, his
body full of the grosser animal maSpe--
tism that is thrown OFT the slaughtered
meat. See the persons drinking hot
blood, the animal magnetism not having
left it. He becomes stronger, and 1T
will help him till his own organs makes
it for him. The dog follows his master
from the smell of his masters body, or
from the magnetism he leaves behind
him every step he takes. S&me persons
have q very disagleeable S.H with
them. In close room 1t Is an. ,sfnn-
bearable; to d very sensitive 'Ae4Spn,
positively slckenlng,, ana Nils ~ u
place they go with disease and Tsatft.
Why did this girl move after being lald
out? The magnetic cord that holds me
sDirit to the body not being quite
severed when laid out, like tlickering
lamp flashes before it goes out; SO the
body in its last convulsiye thrOes gath
cred enough magnetism to give 1t power
to move; then the cord sn I'd. The
beautiful spirit freed from nortal,
the unchanging immortal paFSAtakes
its fight. -
stances like the above from gentleBt.,'ss =
now living i'll this city. Excuse me ~
taking up so much of your valuable
space. when we learn the law that
govern US, your ice misslon,, fresh-a'r
missions. flower missions and missions.
Of love will abound in the land, and the
voice of the sick one will never be
heard.