brain-stealer

Updated: May 4, 2025

Possibly the braziers contained cunning preparations of hemp or opium, unknown to European science, or may have been burning some more subtle brain-stealer; possibly the deep salaams of the juggler masked hypnotic passes, but somehow he had forced two Europeans to see what he wished them to see. On one occasion in Colombo, in Ceylon, there was an unrehearsed episode in a juggler's performance.

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton - Here, There and Everywhere