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Saint Joseph Dreams
Saint Joseph dreams that he is visited by an angel who tells him that he is going to be the father of Jesus

Crooklets Beach, Bude, Cornwall - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Puysegurs Magnetic Elm
PUYSEGUR His magnetic elm at Buzancy, which he magnetised, and which magnetised his subjects in their turn

Future Life Regression
A hypnotised subject is sent forward in time, and gives a description of the end of the world - which will occur in the year 46, 812, to be precise

Barhams Servant
Mr C N BARHAM hypnotises his servant who manifests clairvoyance when in the hypnotic state

Group therapy using hypnosis

Incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium
Seeing Everything - The wild and incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium. Date: 1905

Lulworth Cove, Lulworth, Dorset - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Summerleaze Beach, Bude, Cornwall - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Bathing Pool and Compass Point, Bude, Cornwall - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Bathing Pool, Bude, Cornwall - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

The Breakwater, Bude, Cornwall - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Frustrating an Attempt to Disorganise London
Sixth column strategy: Disguised as Gothic pinnacles the famous clock, Big Ben is being altered by an odd contraption, to confuse the general public. Date: 1940

MESMER AND WATELET
Mesmer correctly predicts the death of the singer Watelet

JACOB'S DREAM
Jacob dreams of a staircase leading to Heaven, prefiguring what is reported by those who have near-death experiences

LURANCY VENNUM known as The Watseka Wonder American girl who was ostensibly possessed by the spirit of the dead Mary Roff Date: circa 1864 - ?

Monks meditate and die
Shahabad, India : six ascetics are meditating in the temple when a lamp sets light to a mat. Forbidden to move while meditating, they burn to a holy death. Date: 1939

CATALEPSY, FRANCE
FRENCH FARMER Jean Granet has a bad fall and seems dead, but during the preparations for his funeral he comes back to life Date: 1901

CATALEPSY, ARGENTINA
CATALEPTIC TRANCE ? At Rawson Hospital, Cordoba, Argentina, a 19-year old girl, supposed dead, recovers consciousness in the mortuary Date: 1940

CATALEPSY, POLAND
PRONOUNCED DEAD BY THE DOCTORS, a citizen of Rovno in east Poland returns to life at his funeral and angrily assails his greedy relatives Date: 1931

CATALEPSY AT ARGENTAT
GIRL COMES BACK TO LIFE after being supposed dead for 14 hours, at Argentat, near Tulle, France Date: April 1902

DREAMING
Dream Situation : THE DREAM OF THE LIVING DEAD Date: 1934

DREAM OF LONDON SEASON
A girls vision of the London Season. Included in the montage: balls; presentation at court; riding in rotten row, clothes; a wedding, gentlemen callers........ Date: 1840s

INSANITY HYSTERIA 1881
A patient at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, depicted in the throes of a demoniac attack Date: 1885

SHIITES IN ECSTASY
Shiite Moslem fanatics mutilate themselves in a state of ecstasy during the pilgrimage to Kerbela, Iran Date: 1909

GREEK ORTHODOX EXORCISM
A maniac, supposed possessed by a demon, is exorcised by the priests of the church of Saint Theodore, at Pergamos (in present-day Turkey) Date: circa 1840

TARTINIS DREAM In a visionary dream, the devil plays the music he needs for the final passage of a piece, known in consequence as the Devils Trill Sonata Date: 1692 - 1770

HYSTERICAL NUN
A hysterical nun breaks loose from her bonds and terrifies the convent with her insistence that she is possessed by demons Date: 17th century

BACCHANTE IN ECSTASY - 2
A Bacchante, worshipper of Bacchus, in ecstasy before a statue of the god

SLEEPWALKER ON ROOF 1870
Near Newmarket, England, a sleepwalker who has climbed onto the roof in his nightshirt is lassooed by his brother in case he should wake and fall Date: 1870

Ecstatic Moslems
MOSLEM FANATICS At the Mohurrum Festival, Iran, devotees mutilate themselves while in a state of ecstasy Date: 1913

Charcot and Asylum Patient
UNE LECON CLINIQUE A LA SALPETRIERE J M Charcot demonstrates the symptoms of hysteria with a patient under hypnosis Date: 1887

Puysegur and Victor
PUYSEGUR demonstrating the power of suggestion with his subject Victor Race Date: 1784

Mesmer conducting a baquet in Paris
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 - 1815), German physician and hypnotist, treating patients in a group, in a session which he called a baquet (named after the large vessel in the middle of the room)

Leonide Pigeaire
LEONIDE PIGEAIRE claims to be able to read blindfolded when she is magnetised : though accused of fraud, the question has never been resolved Date: 1837

Mollie Fancher(1848-1910), known as the Brooklyn Enigma for, amongst other phenomena, her perceived ability to fast for long periods on time

Woman saving child by walking narrow ledge
To save her child from fire, Madame Pauquelin of rue St Maur, Paris, walks a narrow ledge from her 5th floor apartment, which she could not have done in her normal state of consciousness. Date: 1906

Victims of Saint Vitus Dance go on pilgrimage to Echternach, Luxembourg. Date: 16th century

Exorcism in Russia
A Cossack chief threatens the Devil with a holy icon - doubtless this relates some popular legend

Donato Hypnosis
Donato, stage hypnotist, (real name Alfred Edouard Hont) performing feats with volunteer subjects

Loudun - Possessed Nuns
The nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule develop convent hysteria and claim to be possessed by demons

Mesmer Baquet Moral
Mesmers baquet-moral does for the soul what his regular baquet does for the body : vices are eradicated, virtues inculcated, thanks to the powerful forces it exerts

Mesmer Baquet
Mesmers octagonal baquet, showing how eight patients could sit round it and be cured of 8 different ailments simultaneously, from hydropsis to the stone

A Nightmare
Ho(a)rse laughter - a study in a horses facial expressions and a bit of a nightmare. Date: 1930s

Earl Spencers house
The magnificent home of George John (1758 - 1834), 2nd earl Spencer in St James, off Green Park, London, completed 1766 though altered at various times; it survives as offices

One Man Hypnotised / 1940S
A man in a white coat hypnotises a man in a suit. Date: 1940s

Loudun / Nuns & Grandier
The nuns of the convent of Sainte-Ursule become hysterical when Urbain Grandier addresses them Date: 23 June 1634

Loudun / Jeanne Exorcised
Jeanne de Balfiel, superior of the convent of Saint-Ursule, is exorcised to free her from the demons which seem to have possessed her Date: 11 October 1632

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