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The end of it was that they burned his waggon, looted his trade-goods and oxen, and killed his servants. They would have killed him too, only, according to his own account, he escaped in a very queer fashion." "How?" "Well, he says by mesmerising the chief and making the man lead him through his followers. An odd story enough, but I can quite believe it of Jacob.
Their boy is unquestionably a sensitive subject to the mesmeric influence and, under that influence, he has no doubt reflected what was already in the mind of the person mesmerising him. I have tested the theory of clairvoyance and I have never found the manifestations get beyond that point.
Now he begins to play to it on a little flute; it is dancing, swaying its lean unlovely body to and fro and up and down in time with the tune. He puts down his pipe and makes a motion to it as if he were mesmerising it, passing his hands this way and that, until it comes to him and puts its flat head on his shoulder, nozzling into his neck. It makes one shudder to see it!
"Well, one day the shoemaker offered to amuse the Sultan by mesmerising his guards." "Mesmerising!" interrupted the Dey, "what is that?" "Throwing them into a sleep, your highness, against their will." "Well?"
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