. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. apping the climax, by making it protrude its forked tongueto meet his own. This feat is about his only source of revenue. Last March he went to Ardmore, a small town in the In-dian Territory, a few miles north of here, hoping to makesome money by giving public exhibitions of his snake left here with two snakes, a copperhead and a rattlesnake,but the rattler died en route. Not wishing to perform withone snake, he took his flute, the work of his own handicraft,and started for the woods in quest of the reptiles. To the tuneof his
. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. apping the climax, by making it protrude its forked tongueto meet his own. This feat is about his only source of revenue. Last March he went to Ardmore, a small town in the In-dian Territory, a few miles north of here, hoping to makesome money by giving public exhibitions of his snake left here with two snakes, a copperhead and a rattlesnake,but the rattler died en route. Not wishing to perform withone snake, he took his flute, the work of his own handicraft,and started for the woods in quest of the reptiles. To the tuneof his own weird music, like Jack the Piper, he marched along. *I have, as the contents o£ this book show, taken into consideration what belongs tohypnotism and fascination. I therefore present this chapter which, I think, will interestthe reader. 128 HYPNOTISM AND ANIMALS. He returned to town in about three hours with thirteen snakesof different species crawling after him. Selecting a few fromamong them, he exhibited his feats to wondering and CHARMING WISELY FRANK KERR AND HIS SNAKES. This story has been told so often and abundantly verifiedlhat no one now questions it. He has a preference for the cop- HYPNOTISM AND ANIMALS. 129 perhead, but, as he expresses it, he loves them all, and fre-quently caresses a little harmless green snake as tenderly as hedoes the big rattlers. He says he loses a great many, and ban-ishes some when their affection for rum seems to grow cold. Animals have been frequently fascinated for purposes ofexperiment, and a universal rigidity of the muscles producedto such an extent as to cause them to resemble pieces of statu-ary, so that the animal could be taken up and its whole weightsupported by one foot, and this state produced and continuedat pleasure (John B. Newman). Mr. Bruce, the great Africantraveler, distinctly states, from minute personal observation,that all the blacks of the kingdom of Sennaar, whether Funzeor Nuba, are perfectly a
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