The only thing hypnotism is good for is the funny. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Amazing Hypnotist Redux] Reference
"Do you remember how interested we used to be in hypnotism, David?". From Wordnik.com. [The Fire Within] Reference
The word hypnotism means sleep, and the definition of hypnotism implies artificially produced sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
Indeed he invented the name of hypnotism, formed from the Greek word meaning 'sleep', and designating. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
"The word hypnotism I know not, I guess you mean what we call Zoorph. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
Jim Sehorn gave me a wand and a pendulum to use with my course in hypnotism. From Wordnik.com. [McNish, Thomas M.] Reference
Since I don’t believe in hypnotism at all, I found it all quite ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [Meetings : Bev Vincent] Reference
He made up his mind that he would give that "hypnotism" theory a trial, at any rate. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
It offered cessation classes and paid for treatments such as hypnotism and acupuncture. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come . . .. . . Smokers Who Won't Quit Sacked] Reference
It was Braid, indeed, who caused the name of "hypnotism" to eject that of "mesmerism" in England. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
That was a tale of a kind of hypnotism -- people really didn't see that the Emperor has no clothes. From Wordnik.com. [What's Good in the Bushite Supporters? What's Amiss Among the Liberals?] Reference
There was some kind of hypnotism in it, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
Sports shrink's "hypnotism" behind Pak's World Twenty20 win: Malik. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
To use the obvious catchword 'hypnotism' is to use a toy and stop a leak with paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Centaur] Reference
A great part of it was no more than a kind of hypnotism, but there were other branches. From Wordnik.com. [Brood of the Witch-Queen] Reference
The word "hypnotism" has been trailed about in the newspapers so that even we ourselves rather wince at it, and avoid occasions of its use. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
"I have always ridiculed the idea of hypnotism and in every experiment where I have been present I have set myself to disprove its effects. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
"It's a kind of hypnotism, I think, which we don't quite understand yet. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Jinks, Hero] Reference
101: 30 animal magnetism, recently called hypnotism, other than the effect of illusion. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures] Reference
This technique is often employed in stage hypnotism. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
Psychical medicine including faith cures, and hypnotism. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964] Reference
But he laughed at hypnotism as a mixture of fraud and hysteria. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
"Mr. Darrell, do you believe in hypnotism?" she suddenly inquired. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
We call it hypnotism, and if you think I cannot resist it, remember that. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
They come to the Place de la Bastille to interpret dreams and discuss hypnotism. From Wordnik.com. ['Cafe Psycho' Society] Reference
The learned doctor regards hypnotism, indeed, as "a transfusion of personality.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
It is the use and application of this power or force that constitutes hypnotism. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
"The usual name for such a phenomenon is 'mass hypnotism,' Mr. Malone," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
The effects of hypnotism are as much facts as the effects of a bottle of whiskey. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
The spontaneous cases are rare, of course, but hypnotism seems to develop them pretty freely. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Ever since the orthodox scientists have come around to accepting hypnotism, I'm been chary of it. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
There is no hypnotism about "things as they are"; no lure about things as they have not yet been. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Vernilands, none can tell, but the inspector behaved like a man under the influence of hypnotism. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
It may have been hypnotism, or some kindred mystery, but we were unresisting children in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Charcot, who established the Salpétrière hospital where hypnotism was so successfully used, sent fifty or sixty patients to. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
This "temple sleep" was closely akin in its effects to hypnotism and was undoubtedly efficacious in the case of some diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
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