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Show HYPNOTIZED HIMSELF; SLEPT FOR FIVE WEEKS Illinois Man Who Went; Into Studying (fic : Occult v v Aroused by Electric Battery. PEORIA, 111., Jan. 19. Benjamin Caniglsky has Just awakened V from' a five-weeks' trance, having succeeded in hypnotizing . himself while studying art and the occult a t Washington. D. C. ' While in Washington and in connection with his artistic studies, -he became Infatuated with th occult and actually hypnotised him- self. He was found in his room soundly asleep and as he could not be awakened, his family at' Peoria were notified. A brother went on and brought him back. . Since then he has lain in this same mysterious sleep and wasonly. aroused when a battery was applied t his spinal column. One lec- trode Was applied at the base of the brain and another to theend'of ' " the spinal column and the full force of the battery being turned on the pattent awakened. The -indications are that ha will recover his j . ' health. . - . |