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face upturned as toward a vision of beauty, and she exclaimed in 

 low and broken tones of rapturous emotion : " She comes, she 

 comes ; she is all in white ! " and as this sacred vision died away 

 her head dropped in solemn resignation, and after a short interval 

 of resignation and grief the play was over, and she was brought 

 back once more to her chair in a state of well-simulated lethargy. 

 This same performance she repeated under similar conditions at 

 the final seance at Dr. Sajous's rooms, where I organized a con- 

 tinued representation before a number of spectators by Jeanne, by 

 Madame Vix, and Clarice, in all cases with tubes containing any- 

 thing else but valerians. Clarice was a third subject who figures 

 largely in the writings of Dr. Luys, and whom I met at his clinique. 

 She also was for a long time a patient ; she is a thorough hysteric 

 and trained hypnotic, and she goes through some of these perform- 

 ances with even better grace and more seductive accomplishment 

 than Madame Jeanne. We repeated with her twice all these per- 

 formances, and also some others. For Clarice is now also a " pro- 

 fessional " ; she is younger and prettier, and charges a higher fee 

 than that of the others; she has hypnotic specialties of her own. 

 She requested that for the final seance she might be permitted to 

 bring " her pianiste," for she told us that what she was particu- 

 larly celebrated for were the beauty and grace of her attitudes 

 passionnelles, which were best performed when the person who 

 hypnotized her could play to her appropriate music, gay or mel- 

 ancholy. Accordingly, on the final occasion, she came with a 

 pianist, who duly made a few customary passes, to put her 

 into the somnambulistic state, then put her in the middle of the 

 room and began playing suitable music. He supplied her with 

 castanets, and she danced a gay and lively measure ; he rose 

 from the piano and took them from her, and then sad music 

 threw her into attitudes of picturesque despair and delicately 

 acted grief. We had no time to go through the whole perform- 

 ance, or I have no doubt it would have been well worth the money. 

 I need not go through the entire category of proceedings. Prof. 

 Luys told us that he had had as many as three of these people at 

 once engaged in their cat performance, licking their paws, mew- 

 ing, jumping, and scratching about the place ; as he said, " un 

 veritable Sabbat" — a true witches' Sabbath. He dwelt upon the 

 importance of these manifestations (which he takes quite seri- 

 ously) as opening up new realms of psychological inquiry. I 

 quote from my notes : 



Here (he said) is a new domain for psychical researches. It will enable us, 

 at any rate, to catch glimpses of the animal mind, and perhaps to learn what they 

 feel and think. I had a patient who in the somnambulistic stage was trans- 

 formed into a cock and entered into the cock nature. I tried to make him 

 remember when he awoke what he had been thinking of when he was thus trans- 



