A true ghost story; or, Three nights in a haunted house, and a brief sketch of superstition (1895)
Scaife, Hazel Lewis, 1872-1939 · Louisville, Ky. [Press of R. H. Carothers] · leaf 66
excitedmind of the public, and he died denounced asan impostor. Mesmerism, stripped of its super-stitions and absurdities is now known as hyp-notism or animal magnetism. In certain Eu-ropean countries, hypnotism was once practicedso generally for improper purposes that prohib-itory laws were… … no, sir, it could not have been rats.—Page 21. A BRIEF SKETCH OF SUPERSTITION. 49 ism is looked upon as a supernatural perform-ance, notwithstanding the fact that it has beenphysiologically explained, and is now a repu-table science. In table-rappings, clairvoyance and spiritu-alism, fraud has been…
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