THE LAST CRAZE AT ST. PETERSBURG.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2228, 19 April 1881, Page 2

THE LAST CRAZE AT ST. PETERSBURG.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the “Sydney Morning Herald” writes;—“The celebrated magnetisor, Mr Hansen, from Vienna, is now making experiments in St. Petersburg in presence of a committee of doctors, who, it must be confessed, have done and are doing all in their power to undermine the reputation of Mr Hansen, and represent him as a common quack. In spite of the opinion of those learned personages, the public besieges by thousands the Pedagogical Museum, where these seances take place, and not a tenth part can get in. Almost all Mr Hansen’s experiments have succeeded, and he is going to give a series of seances in a room where a larger audience can be accommodated. There is hardly a house in St. Petersburg now where seances are not held, and a number of amateur magnetisors have sprung into existence. This has given an impulse to the spiritualists too, who had grown rather indifferent lately, end tables have begun to turn, houses to be haunted afresh, and furniture to be knocked about with more zeal than ever. Mr Hansen was invited to the palace of the Grand Duke Wladimir, where, in presence of che Emperor and forty persons of the Ooart, he produced the most interesting experiments. The Emperor takes a great interest in the occult sciences, especially in spiritualism.”