SOME STRANGE HYPNOTISM

Grey River Argus, 20 April 1911, Page 7

SOME STRANGE HYPNOTISM

SCENES AT SEANCES.

Strange incidents have , occurred during certain hypnotic seances in Vienna which necessitated the interference of the police, who have now forbidden further sittings. In the first case, which took' place at Urania, the most modern and popu lar lecture theatre in Vienna, a doctor experimented with a lady by fixed stare and" regular movements of his arms, and deprived her of the faculty of volition. Suddenly, the lady, who belongs to ; a distinguished family, became paralysed, and was carried in a rigd state out of the place. Turbulent scenes ensued, in the course of which the police commissioner stopped the experiments, and tEe Hall was only cleared by extinguishing the lights. The second affair happened in a concert hall. During the production of a ' f sug,gesteur," named Herrmann, of experiments which were, very successful, a competitor suddenly shouted out that 'there was a danger for' those hypnotised, and the police were obliged to interfere. The medium at the moment was a well-known Vienna actress, Fraulein Sander, who obeyed implicitly every ' order from Herrmann. She even forgot her first name when the "suggesteur" ordered her to do so. Part of the audince took Herrmann's side and part that of his rival, but the latter was forced out of the hall amidst great uproar, upon which the police put an end to the seance,,.