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monotonous tone. He wife was also in the room. After playing 
for some time he arose and went to the door to go out. Outsi 
the door he said he saw a figure and exclaimed, “ What is this ? ” 
Immediately he fell forward, and that is all he could remember. 
I positive that this was not a case of shamming. I am also 
positive that he did not recall what took place, that he had no 
recollection of what took place from the time I saw him on the 
ground to the time he “came to himself’ in the Chapel. Iam 
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Suggestion. Seeing a shadow, may he not have taken this to be 
& spirit about to possess him? Then the cries of his neighbours 
“Shaitan laga hai” would still farther deepen the impression, or, 
technically, the “ suggestion,’ until he actually became to himself 
in 
yard into which Visahu took us on that memorable night in 
forty rupees which was ill. He was taking the goat to tie near 
the buffalo. He would feed the goat in the name of the deo 
Wife were getting onin years, they wished to have another son. 
I recall the time when my syce asked leave that he might sacrifice 
% pig at some shrine in order to have a son. A year or eighteen 
months later I was told that Raru, the syce, hada son. This boy 
h. His : ’ 
Nothing could convince the father that the son was not given In 
