The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-21
THE WONDERS OF MEsMERIsM.
Interesting Experiments of q IIypnotizsr
in Paris-Astonislling Results.

Interesting Experiments of q Iypnot1Zer
in Paris-AstonisIing Results.
The Sale du Zodiaque at the Grand
hotel in Paris was crowded with doctors,
journalists, and well known Parisians,
who had been invited by NJ. Hepp, the
editor of The Voltaire, to witness some
interesting experiments Of a newly dlscoV-
cred hypnotizer, NJ. Moulin. Without at
tempting to account for the extraordinary
power possessed by NJ. Moulin, who is a
comparatively young and handsome man,
over the doctors, journalists and ladies OF
the audience who consented to mount the
platform and allow him to experiment
upon them, will state in a few words
what he did.
NJ. Moulin does not put people to sleep,
but makes them obey his will while
thoroughly awake. He began by choosing
his subjects among the people who pre-
sented themselves by placing his hand on
the nape of the neck. While talking to
them he inquired whether they felt an I'M
usual heat under his hand. If an aff1rma-
tive answer was given he knew he had
good subject, and while telling him to
stand up straight soon brought him on
his knees by simply placing one hand
lightly on his back and holding the other
in front of his knees.
1t was extremely curious to witness the
efforts made by some people to keep
their feet, but it was useless; they had to
go down on their knees. One gentleman,
well known in Partisan society, WAS
dragged around the room among the
spectators by n Moulin, who put that
gentleman's hand first on his shoulder
and then on his head, and told him to fol-
low him. When they got back to the
platform he told the same gentleman,
when sitting on the ground, that he for
bade him to rise. Notwithstanding the
most strenuous efforts, he could not rise
until he had received the magnetizer'S
permission.
One of the writers on The Gaulois was
operated on in a yet more astonishing
manner. Placed at the extremity of the
long hall, with his back turned to NJ.
Moulin, he was told to do all he could to
prevent himself being drawn backward
toward the platform. He used what
seemed to be almost superhuman efforts
to stand where he was; but soon his legs
began trembling violently and in spite of
all he was soon walking backward toward
the operator.
After that everybody was made to laugh
heartily by the same gentleman being
made to dance in a most amusing man
ner. NJ. Moulin also fought mock duel
with him. Asking for two walking
after crossing swords with him, paralyZed
his arm by his will. After releasing his
adversary from that Instantaneous posi-
ton, NJ. Moulin told him that he defied
him to touch him with the stick. The
operator failed in this instance, for, after
a prolonged effort, during which the jour
nalist seemed to strain every nerve and
muscle in his body, he at last touched M.
Mouths chest
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plause by recommending the experiment.
He stood perfectly still and offered, as be-
fore, no resistance but his will or mag
netic power. The gentleman, with his
stick, struggled, SO to say, against the
air; but he failed to touch the operator.
One of the ladies present was then told by
NJ Moulin, while she was sitting among
the spectators, that he defied her to say
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 1t was ridiculous in
the extreme to hear her try in vain, till
the operator gave her permission to say
the word.
The same lady was evidently a good
subject, for NJ. Moulin, placing two chairs
in the middle Of the platform, sat down on
one and then told the lady she would sit |
down on the other and lean her head on
his shoulder. She protested, butTn few !
minutes she was seized with q most |
violent trembling in her outstretched |
arms. She got up and then threaded her |
way among the spectators in what seemed |
to be a nervous trance, for she trembled |
most violently. Some people thought she |
would trip on the platform steps, but M.
Moulin, who was sitting quietly awaiting
her arrival, treasured them by saying, |
''She cannot fall, forbid her."
She sat down on the chair, and, when
there, seemed determined not to put her
head on the operators shoulder; but in
few moments she closed her eyes and let
her head fall. At the same instant M
Moulin started to his feet, and, blowing
in her face, restored her instantly to
Other equally astonish-
ing experiments were made by NJ. Moulin
on people who cannot be supposed for a
to be acconplices to a trick
Cor. London Standard.