hypnotism

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His eyes fairly bored themselves into the patient's eyes with an expression like that of a hypnotiser.

From The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Colbron, Grace Isabel

At last the hypnotiser, seizing the Pombo's head between his hands, stared in his eyes, rubbed his forehead, and woke him from the trance.

From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

The Pombo's Contortions Certain exorcisms were pronounced by the hypnotiser, and the Pombo now began the most extraordinary snake-like contortions, moving and twisting his arms, head, body and legs.

From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

It is also certain that similar, but yet more vivid, false experiences may be produced, at the word of the hypnotiser, in persons under the hypnotic sleep. 

From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Lang, Andrew

These authors write with great caution about such alleged phenomena as the reading, by the hypnotised patient, of the thoughts in the mind of the hypnotiser.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew