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Show SOME FORMS OF HYPNOTISM Many May Be Known to the Readers, While Others Have A Flavor That Is New. Hypnotizing a hen is a trick known to most country boys. It is an olJ experiment, first described by the Je suit Father Athannsius Kircher, who laid a hen on the table, held it firmly for a little while, and drew a chalk-line chalk-line In front of its eyes, with the result re-sult that it remained as if in catalepsy. In India it is known that u cobra caught by the neck and gently pressed-will pressed-will soon become stiff and remain so for a considerable time, either coiled up or out straight. A frog fastened to a board and turned suddenly upside down goes Into a trance. Other animals are susceptible suscep-tible to this treatment, some mora quickly than others. If you pick up a crab and wnve It in the air it becomes immobile, n fe male bending her legs over her abdomen, abdo-men, a male sticking thera out nlmosl straight. The same Is true of the fresh-water crayfish, only this resist for a much longer time than the crab. Among the insects catalepsy commonly com-monly known as "death feigning" i common, and, according to Prof. Ernest Er-nest Mangold, the learned naturalist, is often a means of saving the lif of the Insect. |