HYPNOTISM IN ANIMALS. 621 



and now, indeed, his crooked tail high in the air, he places himself on his 

 head, and remains motionless, as if asleep, in this forced and unnatural 

 position ; while he finds his support in his feelers and two under claws. 



It is really a surprising sight ! While we then, as now, saw the 

 conclusion of the experiment with satisfaction and interest, I, on my 

 part, had seized an animal with the intention of endeavoring to place 

 it on its head, without the magnetic strokes, and thereby to remove 

 the reasonable thought of a secret " magnetic " influence contained in 

 the strokes. 



And see ! my crawfish, after in vain struggling in my firm grasp, 

 actually stood just as motionless on its head as the one which my 

 compainion had magnetized, and as this one here which I have placed 

 before you on its head, without all that deceptive magnetism. And 

 how was it with the opposite strokes, beginning from the head ? My 

 friend worked zealously with these strokes upon his crawfish, while I 

 represented the opposite experiment. It lasted some time, until the 

 crawfish began to move, and at last fell over and crawled away. 



You see that my strokes here with this crawfish have so far no re- 

 sult, and I fear you will lose all patience. Indeed, let us confidently 

 interrupt this opposite manipulation, and let us rather place the rest of 

 the crawfish, without magnetism, on their heads, in order to confirm 

 this striking circumstance again. The longer we wait before resuming 

 the magnetic strokes from the head, the more sure we are at last to 

 reap the benefit. It is the same with this as with the solemn request 

 of a Catholic parish in Austria to their priest, which was, to send rain 

 from heaven upon their parched fields, to which, however, the enlight- 

 ened " Joseph," in order to postpone it a little, said : " Yes, willingly, 

 children ! but not just yet, the barometer has been much too high for 

 some time past ! " Let us then follow the good advice of the wise pas- 

 tor ; you will see yourselves, if you wait, that gradually all the crawfish, 

 standing motionless on their heads, move again of their own accord, 

 without any mysterious manipulation ! In regard to the influence of the 

 other motion, it is nothing at all. We are able to act upon the altered 

 nervous system of the crawfish by mechanical means, through the in- 

 fluence of a stream of air, through a sudden coolness or warmth, or 

 through the natural disturbance previous to the awakening ; that is, 

 the restoration of the normal functional capacities. 



You also see, gentlemen, our experiment then and now has ter- 

 minated exactly as I predicted, and I hope that you will now be 

 convinced, as my companion was, that the so-called " magnetizing " 

 of the crawfish is an actual event ; but, as I say, one " viewed un- 

 equally," and, therefore, not one! At the same time, the idea will 

 become clear and distinct to you, which I have associated with the 

 description of " events viewed unequally," and the reason that I have 

 chosen this particular description, to demonstrate something which is 

 not an event at all, will be apparent to you. 



