The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16

WHICH lliOl HOU D6cn uTedlucu VI ny lllG
Others. 1t was her idea to add the power
of music to the magnetizing. At first
this seemed to have no effect, but finally
a piccolo was secured, and the results
with chickens, birds, rabbits, cats and
at last dogs were truly remarkable. The
time requisite for magnetization was
shortened to few seconds, and the char
acter of the trance changed. Searching
through the line of instruments the oc-
arina was found to be even better than
the piccolo. 1t is smaller and more eff
fective.
A rattlesnake was purchased from
Memphis druggist who had been keeping
the ophidian in his show case during the
winter. 1t arrived by express, and, was
at once warmed and fed into activity. A
close examination showed that its poison
bags were intact and full of venom. A
chicken bitten by it died in forty. two
minutes, a rabbit in forty. After consid-
cradle maneuvering of rather exciting
nature, the snake was brought out of his
box and bound to lath. A couple of
bright tin mirrors, later substitute fol-
the silver half dollars, were adjusted, and
a slow movement played upon the
ocarina. The snake was evidently highly
irritatcd, his rattlcs worked convulsively,
and he Kissed continually. Madam B,
holding small horse magnet on hel
hand, made the passes from the head
down the spine. In minute and a
quarter coma began, continuing for about
two minutes, when the snake awoke.
The angry glitter had gone out of its
nd uft a m
B., cut the cords which bound it and
left it free to do as it would. The snake
at once came to a coil, with its head
erect, and began bowling with the beats
of the music. Touched with the lath, it
did not strike at the wood, but rubbed its
head against it; and when one of the
party, taking the precaution to put on a
buckskin over a kid glove, touched
it, it permitted itself TO be fondled
as tamely as dog. Doubtless,
had any one been foolhardy enough to
attempt it, the snake would have been
taken up and passed about; but this was
not done. Subsequently attempts were
made to bring it into a charmed state
with the ocarina alone, but they were
failures. The magnetization was proved
to be an essential part of the process.
Before conclusive experiments could be
conducted, however, the snake, while he
was being bound to the lath, slipped from
under the crotch with which his neck was
held, bit himself in several places, and,
in little less than half an hour, died.
One of the party owned a large New
foundland dog. He was brought into the
parlor, and, after a struggle, held in the
proper position for the tin mirrors to do
their work. He succumbed to the glare,
the music and the passes in eight min
utes. The time would have been shorter,
bat he was desperately frightened, and
succeeded in breaking away twice. When
coma did set in he stood as rigidly as a
statue, and Madam B., knecling in front
Of him, continued the magnctization with
the hands and with the breath. This she
kept up for nearly ten minutes, the dog in
the meantime standing perfectly still, ex.
cept for strong convulsive shoulders that
passed over him from time to time. No
body was touching him. The only phys
ical manifestation of his condition, beside
the position and the trembling, was the
SLAYER that fell steadily from his mouth
Madam b. announced that she meant
if possible, to get en- rapport with the
animal, and when the ten minutes were
up she had succeeded. She walked tC
the other end OF the room, sat down anG
said that she was going mentally to ordel
;he dog to her. lie was still standing al
a dead point in front of the window.
Madam b. said "now." The dos
wheeled round and came to her, stopping
foot or so away from her chair. 'Li(
down" He threw himself on the carpet
sect up" He lay for moment or more
and then stood on his feet again. Madam
b. explained the delay by saying that he
did not begin to obey until she had made
in her own mind, an telegraph of her or
der. The words went for nothing.
Imagine rabbit running about the
room," suggested one.
/ The dog at once took up the chase o.
the phantom that existed but in Madam
B. s brain. In and out from corner tC
corner he ran, jumping chairs and table.
in his wild pursuit. Make him swim a
/ creek, >" was said. In a moment Carlo
was lying on his side padding through
imaginary water. The scene would have
been amusing had it not been for the sa
J.
and which was so suggestive of rabe
that every one felt nervous for the result
So much was the party alarmed abou
this manifestation that Madam B., Wit
shared the general uneasiness, ordered
the dog into an clubhouse in the yard
where he could be watched. Almost a
soon as he passed out of the trance it wa
manifest that he was the victim of hydro
phobia, and it became necessary to hav,
bin shot. Madam b. has declared sh,
will have nothing to do with this devel
opment of mesmerism, as she was thor
oughly alarmed at the condition int,
which the dog was brought, and althougl
some of the party may continue to investi
gate the electro-biologism of the lowe
animals, it is hardly possible that the
will get such re. ults again, as not one ha
the lady's power of concentration of vii
and mesmeric CONTROL Louis Post
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