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medicine will be of no use.' My mother then asked, ' If medicine 

 is of no use, what shall we do ? ' The demon replied, * Burn in- 

 cense to me, and submit yourself to me, and all be well/ My 

 parents promised to do this, and knelt down and worshiped the 

 demon, begging it to torment me no longer. Thus the matter was 

 arranged, I all the time remaining in a state of unconsciousness." 

 After more prayers and worship Kwo recovered consciousness, 

 and was told what promises had been made in his name. He at 

 once refused to worship the demon, upon which he was attacked 

 again. Finally, he consented, and for some time the demon gave 

 him little trouble, coming only at intervals, and then behaving 

 very well. It jjromised to heal diseases, but " many diseases were 

 not under its control, and it seemed as if it could perfectly cure 

 only such as were inflicted by spirits " in other words, those that 

 were due to suggestion and could be relieved in the same way. 



In the summer of 1878 a native missionary named Leng heard 

 of Kwo, and persuaded him to tear down the shrine of the goddess 

 and become a Christian, assuring him that if he did so he would 

 be freed from the spirit's power. This he did, and a few days 

 later his child died, which his wife ascribed to the vengeance of 

 the goddess. Then the demon returned once more and said : " If 

 your husband is determined to be a Christian, this is no place for 

 me. But I wish to tell you that I had nothing to do with the 

 death of your child." " What do you know of Jesus Christ ? " 

 they asked. The answer was: "Jesus Christ is the great Lord 

 over all; and now I am going away, and you will not see me 

 again." And the demon was as good as his word. 



Prof. Forel, of Zurich, has given an account * of a case of this 

 sort which seems to have puzzled him considerably. The patient, 

 K. K., was a German, a wagon-maker by trade, had lived in the 

 United States for some years, and had got interested in "spiritual- 

 ism." Several times he tried to get the spirits to write by his own 

 hand without success, but at last the hand started suddenly and 

 wrote against his will. The writing was followed by automatic 

 ideas in the form of the inner voice. All the communications 

 professed to emanate from a spirit who, although unknown to 

 him, was interested in him, and desired to improve him and pre- 

 pare him for the life to come. Its commands were usually simple 

 and reasonable enough. For example, the patient had been an 

 excessive smoker, but at the spirit's command he gave up smok- 

 ing entirely, and without especial suffering. Sometimes, however, 

 the spirit was whimsical and even malicious. It forced him to 

 smash lamps, break his false teeth, and do other things which 

 caused him no little annoyance. The spirit always claimed that 



* Zeitschrift fiir Hypnotismus, Jahrgang 1894-'95. 



