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Show SOME FORMS OF HYPNOTISE Many May Be Known to the Readera,, While Others Have A Flavor That Is New. Hypnotizing a hen is a trick known to most couutry boys. It Is an old ' experiment, first described by the Je- , suit Father Athauasius 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 a cobra caught by the neck nnd gently pressed will soon become stiff and remain so-for so-for a considerable time, either colled '-up '-up or :ut 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, seme- more-quickly more-quickly than otherss If you pick up a crab aad wave lt ' In the air it becomes immobile, a female fe-male bending her legs over her abdomen, abdo-men, a male sticking them out almost straight. The same Is true of the fresh-water crayfish, only this resists for a much long-er time than the crab,-Among crab,-Among the insects catalepsy commonly com-monly known as "death feigning" lit-common, lit-common, and, according to Prof. Ernest Er-nest Mangold, the learned naturalist, is often a means of saving the life of the insect. |