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Title: Art magic, or, Mudane, sub-mundane and super-mundane spiritism (microform) a treatise in three parts and twenty-three sections, descriptive of art magic, spiritism, the different orders of spirits in the universe known to be related to, or in communication with man; together with directions for invoking, controlling, and discharging spirits, and the uses and abuses, dangers and possibilities of magical art
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Britten, William, fl. 1876 Britten, Emma Hardinge, d. 1899
Subjects: Spiritualism Magic
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Progressive Thinker Pub. House
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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in com-munities already predisposed to such affections. The present nations of Asia, among whom ecstatic statesand visions are to be met with, are worthy of mention. Amongthem are the Siberian Schamans, the Arabian Dervishes, and theSamozedes and Lapps. Among all these nations a species of som-nambulism is common, into which they fall, either by means ofnatural susceptibility, or by peculiar movements and exercises ofthe body, and rarely by the use of narcotic substances. Amongthe northern nations, the phenomenon of second-sight is said tobe frequent. Among the many Mongolian tribes, and also the Lapps, par-ticularly excitable and susceptible persons are chosen as ghost-seers and sorcerers; in India as Jongleurs, in Siberia as Schamans,With much natural disposition, strengthened by practice andmode of life, the majority require nothing more than to shoutviolently, to storm, to dance and to drum, to turn round in a cir-cle, to induce insensibility and convulsive rigidity. Among the Hi
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d cc 2 PC 3 ABT MAGIC. 233 Siberian Schamans, as we learn from Georgi, narcotic substancesare used, such as a decoction of fungus or other exciting vegetablesubstances to produce visions, in which they see and communicatewith spirits, learning from them future and distant events. Theyalso see distant countries and the souls of the dead, to whom theyascend from the body through the air to the seats of the gods,which Hoegstrom especially relates of the Lapps, among whom,such a high degree of susceptibility exists, that the most remark-able phenomena are witnessed. If any one opens his mouth orcloses it, or points to anything with his fingers, or dances, ormakes other gesticulations, there are many who will imitate allthis, and when they have done so, inquire whether they have doneanything improper, as they knew nothing of what they did.These Lapps are excitable to such a degree, that they are throwninto insensibility and convulsions, by the most trifling and unex-pected occurrence, such

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