trance-spells

Updated: July 23, 2026

The next morning I asked Mrs. Mooney what time it was when we left the laundry the evening before, and she said half-past eight. Then I recounted the strange experience of the trance, which did not arouse the interest I had expected. "That's nothing. That's the way we all get sometimes," she declared. "If we didn't get into them trance-spells there'd be none of us workin' here at all, at all."

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself