ABNORMAL HYPNOTIC PHENOMENA

In these four volumes a number of different contributors have made as pecialstudy of the paranormal phenomena which occurred in mesmerised subjects during the nineteenth century. Somnambulism, thought transference, clairvoyance and eyeless sight were constantly in the minds of the early magnetists, who reported their findings in the Zoist and other journals concerned with magnetismorphrenology. A Satanic agency was attributed to Braid, and the hint of the occult in many of the phenomena was suficient both to attract and repel and to make the mesmeric controversy more an emotional than an intellectual exercise. The Parapsychology Foundation of New York has sponsored these four volumes, and has been fortunate in obtaining the editorial services of that remarkably erudite individual, Dr. Dingwall.