Evening star., 1900-07-14
his eyelids are growing heavy. his thoughts
confused.

Candle behind n Beer Bottle.
According to some other professors" I
can place lighted candle behind a beer
bottle and hypnotic my victim by making
him gaze upon the spot where the light TO-
cuses itself. I can produce the same effect
If make him gaze long at spot upon the
ceiling. Holding a mirror before him, he
can look steadily into the pupils of his own
eyes and thus hypnotiZe himself. If he
stares at a match held close to his eyes
while 1t burns closes his eyes when it goes
out and does not open them until another is
lighted. he will probable go to sleep after
concentrating his vision upon the third
match. He will do SO more surely IL / en-
phasize the fact that this third match will
DO the work. If these tests are not success
1ul can make him stare at his own nose
or at his ten finger nails held close before
him. gazing at each of the latter in turn
1t is also recommended that he be required
to hold pencil between his teeth and run
his eyes along its length.
ihe photograph of a strange person taken
while gazing directly at the camera will
hypnouze my victim if make him stare it
steadily in the eyes for long time. / must
previously suggest to him that it is the pic
ture of the greatest hypnotist in the world
large, staring eye skillfully drawn upon
Whlte paper should have the same effect
Other tricks are to close the subjects eyes
and make him count the bricks along the
corner of an ina ginary high building or re-
cure MN to turn over the leaves of book
upon each page. During all these processes
he must be assured in the most convincing
language that he is going to sleep. that his
eyes are growing heavy, that his mind is
becoming perfect blank.
Good Way to Make Mauiac..
Sleep having been induced by one of these
methods, my victims will is now in the
palm Of my hand. Perhaps have twisted
bis eyes into criss-crosses which he can
never straighten out, but that does not
matter. According to one of my teachers, I
may now allow him to open his eyes and I
may lead him. still hypnotized, into an i'm
aelnary garden. where he is devourfng
fruits and picking flowers. I may mentally
discover a swarm of bees and amuse myself
by watching him fight them. Perhaps he
VIII roll on the floor in his efforts to brush
them off He may cry like child as he
suffers the imaginary agony of their stings
Granting that this demonstration of nv
power has not eft him a raving maniac. /
may next offer him an onion. If l tell him
that 1t is delicious peach he will devour it
with much guSto-' / can quite as readily
make him believe that water is cologne
money wormwood. vinegar or wine. If 1
te!i MN he woman he will assume a
feminine voice and carriage If I draw a
chalk line upon the floor and tell him he
cannot cross 1t. but to try he will en-
deavor to do so and surely fail. I can s,Ig-
gest mat penny on the floor is too heavy
10 be picked up He will then be unable to
lift 1t. Similarly can convince him that a
cane Is snake. chair a ferocious animal.
a handkerchief a revolving REPTILE / NAV
suggest that needles or pins stuck through
MS tongue, ears or cheeks will cause him
no pain. and he will not finch when I in
sert them. Such tests and many others are
actually prescribed to the amateur Sven
gall. May we not look for a vast. Increase
in our insane population while the "hypno-
tism by mail'' fad is in vogue?
Making Criminals of the Innocent
But worse and more of it, I am told that
my victim, after repeated seances such as
described, will be ripe for tests in post
hypnotic suggestion" While he Is in the
hypnotic state I can command that when
the clock strikes such-and-such he must
do so-and-so. Then I can awaken him, At
the prescribed hour he will obey the order
given though no. renewal of nv Influence
has meanwhile interviewed. If l tell him to
amputate his leg. to set his neighbor's
mouse afire, to take poison to jump out the
window or to murder someone he will help
lessly obey me. Quite as readily can I
make him sign promissory notes. deeds
checks or any other documents The pro
lessor who distributes this edifying sus-
gestlon among the youth of the country and
among any element of society able to pay
his paltry price adds that such uses of hyp-
notism would he Immoral" Yet he does
not fail to indicate just how they can be
appiied nor to add that the crime thus in
duced could never be proven if you COM
manded the subject before he did il that
he would positively never have any remem-
brance of the act"
HyDnOtism by Phone.
I am further told how I may command
my subject to become Immediately hypno-
ttZed and to come to me at once whenever
and wherever l may see him. / may thus
pick him out of any crowd. First l must
suggest that when point my finger at him |
he cannot resist the desire to approach me- ,
By mail. telegraph or phone. l may exert
my influence against his shattered will |
He Will be unable to resist. When You
hear me say. through the telephone: Sleep,
Go to sleep your right hand will become |
numb and insensble' I may remark while |
he IS IN the hypnotic state. Calling him to |
the phone long time afterward and re-
peating the mandate. / can cause his right |
hand to fall to his side. limp and lifeIess.
If while he is hypnotiZed I assure him that i
he will obey a telegram or letter, addressed |
10 him wherever he may be and summoning
him to me, my power to call him. even
from the remotest corners of the earth
Will have become assured. I may also put |
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