Hypnotism
Subtitle: Its History And Present Development
Contributors: Baron Nils Posse (Translator)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781417957422
Subjects: Hypnosis; Hypnotism; Psychology
First sentence: THE wonderful psychical phenomena that are now-a-days embraced under the names of hypnotism and somnambulism, and which as animal magnetism or mesmerism, stirred the world in the latter part of the last century and far into the present were known and used from the earliest times in the service of mysticism, prognostication, and religion, by the priests of ancient Egypt as well as by the old Indian fakirs, the Greek oracles, the Roman sibyls and the mediaeval magicians, exorcists, conjurers, pneumatologists, etc.